Tesla Launches Wild FSD Trial – Here’s How To Get It

Tesla just surprised its entire owner base with an offer that feels pulled straight out of an earnings-call fever dream: a free 30-day Full Self-Driving (FSD) trial, available to nearly every owner across North America.

The sudden rollout, announced on November 27, covers all major models. This means Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Cybertruck, giving owners access to Tesla’s newest supervised FSD version, v14, and its latest upgrades, including Speed Profiles and Arrival Options, as X user Sawyer Merritt observed.

To qualify, your vehicle needs to be running v14.2 or later, and it has to be in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, or Canada. Owners who already purchased FSD outright are excluded, though monthly FSD subscribers will essentially get a free month.

Once Tesla pushes the update to the vehicle, the trial begins, and so does the 30-day countdown.

Push To Fix Tesla’s Biggest FSD Problem – Adoption

Tesla’s move isn’t random. During the company’s most recent earnings call, chief finance officer Vaibhav Taneja admitted a surprising fact that only about 12% of Tesla’s fleet uses paid FSD.

“We feel that as people experience the supervised FSD at scale, demand for our vehicles, like Elon said, would increase significantly. On the FSD adoption front, we’ve continued to see decent progress. However, note that the total paid FSD customer base is still small, around 12% of our current fleet.”

That number is far lower than Tesla expected at this stage. Musk has repeatedly argued that widespread FSD adoption is the company’s ‘real’ value unlock, boosting demand for Tesla vehicles and dramatically improving margins.

A free trial, especially one spanning an entire month, gives Tesla a chance to prove its case to millions of skeptical or hesitant owners. Tesla is even running small on-platform promotions on X to push awareness and increase the FSD take rate.

This new trial effectively removes every barrier, including upfront costs, risky subscriptions, or commitments, while providing full access to the most advanced FSD Tesla has ever shipped. If drivers like what they experience over 30 days, Tesla is betting they’ll stick around.

Earlier, Tesla Senior Vice President for Automotive Tom Zhu pointed to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “prime directive” for the FSD autopilot system: it must avoid a crash no matter how bizarre the situation, even if a UFO suddenly lands on the road. 

Meanwhile, some users have complained of the FSD still facing issues like stuttering and hesitancy at intersections, inching forward, braking, and second-guessing itself before proceeding, to which Musk promised a solution in v14.2.

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