Tesla has confirmed that fixes for two of Full Self-Driving’s most persistent complaints — running straight through potholes and confusing navigation routing — are coming, though it hasn’t said when.
What Tesla actually confirmed
Responding publicly to owner feedback, Phil Duan, a director of engineering on Tesla’s AI team, said “improvements on both are coming” for pothole avoidance and navigation. Pothole detection has been on Tesla’s promised list since as far back as 2019 and has appeared in FSD release notes as an upcoming item since this spring, so treat this as a confirmed direction rather than a release date — Tesla hasn’t tied either fix to a specific software version yet.
Why these two issues keep coming up
Both gripes have shown up repeatedly in owner feedback on recent FSD versions, alongside speed-control behavior and lane-camping in the left lane. Navigation routing problems in particular cover everything from route-planning quirks to parking-lot maneuvering, issues that Tesla’s recent “Preferred Routes” feature has only partly addressed.
One driver’s take on the current software
Dirty Tesla, who posts frequent real-world FSD testing, covered Tesla’s statement and walked through what the software still gets wrong day to day in a video published October 2:
That’s one driver’s experience on one set of roads and errands, not a substitute for Tesla’s own statements above — and until these fixes actually ship, supervised FSD still requires your full attention on potholes and unfamiliar routes alike.
Photo by Borys Zaitsev.
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