Tesla has started reaching out to Cybertruck owners with a clarification regarding its Autosteer feature, coupled with an FSD offer. In emails sent to owners of non-Foundation Series Cybertrucks or those who have not purchased FSD outright, Tesla is offering a free, one-year trial of FSD Supervised, which initially sounds like a great deal.
However, there’s a reason for that. Tesla is taking a departure from its traditional stance, and standard Autosteer — which is usually a free feature, will not be offered on the Cybertruck
For context, all other Tesla vehicles include Basic Autopilot, which includes both Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) and Autosteer, which provides automated steering to keep the vehicle in the lane but doesn’t perform lane changes, handle traffic signs, etc. FSD is, of course, the ultimate vision of these features, handling almost everything the roadways have to offer.
The Cybertruck never shipped with the Basic Autopilot package. Since launch, non-FSD-equipped Cybertrucks have not had Autosteer, only the option to subscribe to FSD or use TACC, leaving out a notable feature.
One-Year FSD Trial
The email being sent to eligible Cybertruck owners extends a complimentary 12-month trial of FSD (Supervised). This effectively replaces and extends the earlier, shorter free access period that was provided and helps compensate for the absence of all Basic Autopilot features.
Any Cybertruck owners who have not purchased FSD outright or are not Foundation-Series owners will be offered this trial by email. To claim the free one-year offer, owners must subscribe to FSD Supervised by June 6th, 2025. Owners can cancel the subscription anytime after and they’ll retain the full one-year trial period.
This is a great offer if you weren’t expecting Autosteer to be included, as it equates to approximately $1,188 USD (or CAD) plus tax when compared to the equivalent subscription cost. Notably, there’s no fine print suggesting that owners are forfeiting access to a potential future Autosteer feature under Basic Autopilot.
Why No Autosteer?
Tesla’s email provides its official reasoning as to why Autosteer will not be available:
As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for the Cybertruck outside of Full Self Driving (Supervised).
While Tesla didn’t explicitly state it - the likely reason is that the Autosteer stack is extremely old, and not designed to function on the Cybertruck, with its unique steering, camera placements, and size.
The Cybertruck’s FSD development is completely separate and as it stands today, can’t be used for Autosteer. Instead of adding support for the Cybertruck on the old Autosteer stack, Tesla wants to focus on its current technology, which powers FSD.
Autosteer in the Future?
While Autosteer and Autopilot are functionally subsets of FSD, they run on entirely separate software stacks. Tesla originally developed Autopilot using traditional code and later started from scratch with a new AI-driven architecture to build FSD. Today, FSD relies heavily on neural networks and machine learning, whereas Basic Autopilot still uses more conventional programming.
Eventually, we expect Tesla to migrate Basic Autopilot to the FSD tech stack, drastically improving its performance. At that point, Autosteer would effectively become a restricted version of FSD—capable of less, but built on the same foundation. When this transition occurs, it’s plausible that Autosteer could finally be added to the Cybertruck.
Lane Departure Avoidance Becomes Part of FSD
Cybertruck just recently received Lane Departure Avoidance and Lane Assist with the 2025 Spring Update, which previously relied on the Autopilot tech stack. Now, with these two features relying upon FSD rather than the old stack, they are available for the Cybertruck, and the feature has also been improved on other vehicles.
This is a pretty clear indication that Tesla is working to move away from the old Basic Autopilot stack and towards the FSD stack, which means we can maybe hope for a cut-down version of FSD becoming available as the future Basic Autopilot package.
Website Changes
Supporting this shift, Tesla's website has reportedly been updated in North America to list Autosteer as a feature only for Models S, 3, X, and Y, omitting Cybertruck. It remains unclear, however, if Tesla has amended the official purchase agreement language for new non-FSD Cybertrucks, which previously may have listed Basic Autopilot (implying Autosteer) as an included feature.
While the complimentary offer of FSD is generous, especially coming from Tesla, it is a divergence in how they’ve handled the availability of basic features on the vehicle fleet. Cybertruck already has a troubled history with FSD and Autopilot-related safety features not being on par with other vehicles in the lineup, but we hope this changes in the future.
