It was an automotive milestone of massive proportions.
A Washington state Tesla owner rode his way into the record books after completing a fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive across the United States, which he detailed in a viral X thread.
“I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive!” David Moss declared in the post.
The Post reached out to the Tacoma resident for comment.
His feat of length was reportedly achieved with a stealth gray Model 3 that was equipped with FSD v14.2.1.25 — Tesla’s state-of-the-art full self-driving update that allows users to track how many miles they’ve driven on autopilot.
Released this month, the operating system allows for smoother, more human-like acceleration and motor maneuvering, although it still requires supervision.
Moss reportedly left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles, California, and drove 2,732.4 miles to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a journey that took him just two days and 20 hours and spanned 24 states.
He detailed his cross-country ride in a map, and also specified all of his nearly 30 charging stops.
Best of all, the literal backseat driver didn’t even hit any proverbial, or literal, speed bumps during his bot-chauffeured jaunt.
The passenger noted that there were “absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind, even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers.”
Moss noted in the comments that there wasn’t even a close call — a rarity even for human operators.
In fact, data from the FSD database and a community tracker showed that Moss used FSD to complete 10,638.8 miles in the Model 3 sans ever taking the wheel, Teslarati.com reported.
According to the Pacific Northwesterner’s Tesla account, his vehicle was also the first to travel 10,000 miles using the software sans any interruptions.
The Tesla community was impressed by the robo-centric road trip, which coincidentally comes 122 years after Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the US, puttering from San Francisco to New York in 63 days.
“We are now living in an era where crossing the American continent by autonomous driving is possible,” gushed one Tesla shareholder.
Even the electric car firm bigwig Elon Musk weighed in, reposting Moss’s X post with the caption, “cool.”
This likely marks one small step for auto-bots, one giant leap for bot-kind.
Musk has been going full speed ahead on driverless tech, notably launching a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June using modified Model Y vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving, which he recently announced were being tested sans safety monitors in the front seat.
