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.
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Tesla has begun reaching out to customers to replace the high-voltage battery pack seals in Model S and Model X vehicles manufactured between 2021 and 2022. In particular, this impacts vehicles between January 2021 and September 22, 2022.
Tesla is notifying impacted owners through a notification and message in the Tesla app.
Plunger Replacement
The high-voltage battery port plungers intended for internal water leak egress (also known as flood ports) are being replaced with improved parts. The new parts are designed to be more robust against external water ingress due to submersion during flooding or other high-severity water impacts.
Tesla specifically notes that no action is needed from owners at this time - once the parts are available, owners will be notified with a notification from the app to encourage them to schedule a service appointment.
This voluntary recall is likely related to the incident where the fully submerged Model X caught on fire underwater, requiring first responders to wait for the battery to burn out before recovering the vehicle. That incident occurred back in October 2023.
While Submarine Mode is a fun Easter Egg, it doesn’t actually improve your vehicle’s water rating.
Service Details
Taking a look at the Service Bulletin (SB-25-16-002), Tesla will be replacing all five flood ports and, if necessary, the breather plugs and flood port doors. Tesla will require you to take your vehicle in for this appointment, which should take approximately 90 minutes for the Model S, and approximately 60 minutes for the Model X. Tesla’s Mobile Rangers won’t be able to complete this activity in your driveway.
The part being replaced is the plug.
Not a Tesla App
Because this is a voluntary recall, Tesla will be offering this as a goodwill service for any owners who have exceeded their Model S or Model X limited battery warranty - so don’t hesitate to take your vehicle in.
Following a period of radio silence from Tesla on FSD updates, Elon Musk has finally hinted that progress is continuing behind the scenes on FSD and that “Several major improvements are incoming.” We’re pretty excited - it has been over 100 days since the last FSD update, and we haven’t heard much since then.
The latest versions of FSD were V13.2.8 for AI4 vehicles and V12.6.2 for HW3 vehicles, both of which were released in January of this year — almost four months ago. While development has been ongoing internally, many have been wondering what the next public release will be. Will it be FSD V13.3, or will we jump straight to FSD V14.
Decoupled Releases & Spring Update
Tesla has now begun pushing Early Access users the 2025 Spring Update without an FSD version change. This means that we can expect the next FSD update to likely be based on the 2025.14 branch.
It’s worth noting that Tesla can add improvements to FSD at any time - and sometimes they do make minor changes without incrementing release numbers - small flag changes in FSD’s software to address how it does a specific task, or what data is uploaded.
With all that said, we expect the Spring Update to begin going out to more of the fleet in the coming days. We’re currently seeing about 58% of the fleet on the Spring Update, and only 30% of the fleet on the older 2025.8 January Update.
Not A Tesla App received information that an upcoming update was set to bring features from other AI4 vehicles to the Cybertruck, including Start FSD from Park, Unpark, Actually Smart Summon, and more. This update was intended to bring it closer to feature parity with the rest of Tesla’s AI4 fleet, but for now, Cybertruck remains the redheaded stepchild of the fleet.
We’re still confident that Tesla is working on this, and the continued delays on the release of an FSD update could point to the Cybertruck and a lack of data continuing to be a pain point for Tesla’s AI team. Cybertruck owners, including the author, have noted that FSD-equipped Cybertrucks continue to upload several hundred gigabytes or more of data per month. This topped out at nearly 1.9 TB of data uploaded in April 2025 for the author.
That’s a massive amount of data - and other users on social media have mentioned much the same for their own Cybertrucks. Tesla needs as much data as possible to tune the FSD models, and given the small fleet size for the Cybertruck, it requires a vast amount of data per user.
“Major Improvements”
While Elon didn’t mention what constitutes these major improvements, we have a lot of expectations besides what we know about the Cybertruck. Learning from the recent and successful FSD launch in China, Tesla is now able to utilize a more generalized model without specific local training data. This could potentially translate into better performance in North America as well, as the 7.7 million miles globally driven on FSD every day are feeding back into Tesla’s data loop.
We’re hopeful that future improvements continue to focus on improving tracking and decision-making, as well as lane handling. FSD users on X continue to point out issues with lane selection and lane keeping in the latest versions of FSD. On the flipside, Tesla has greatly increased the comfort and smoothness of FSD - and V13 is a prime example of that.
While V13.2.8 is also capable of pulling into parking stalls both forwards and in reverse (thanks to one of those flag changes recently), it does an oddly poor job of parking. Tesla’s Vision Autopark, on the other hand, is exceptionally accurate, even with big vehicles like the Cybertruck. It feels like Tesla is working on the parking lot stack to prepare for the upcoming launch of Robotaxi in June.
What About FSD V14
Back in the Q4 2024 Earnings Call, we heard about FSD V14, and just learned a little bit of what will make it unique. In this case, it's auto-regressive transformers that will improve FSD’s already powerful perception system and help it to predict better how other vehicles and road users will behave around it.
That, alongside a larger model and increased context size, will help FSD manage edge cases and make better decisions. The larger model and context size increases are likely another challenge for Tesla, which is already pushing the hardware limits of AI4 with FSD V13.
We did a deep dive into what we know about V14, which you can read here.
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