Posted on 08/02/2026 8:55:54 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
"I'm proud to announce that we completed America End to End on End-to-End FSD on an 8 YEAR OLD TESLA!
@LiamsDadTravel and I became the first people in history to drive from the bottom of the continental US to the top of the drivable world on Tesla FSD, in an 8-year-old Model 3 on HW3!
Gulf of America to the Arctic Ocean.
Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD with 189,689 miles, HW3, v14 Lite
Lexington, KY > Key West, FL > Cape Flattery, WA > Prudhoe Bay, AK > Lexington, KY
Total Duration: 23 Days Distance Driven: 12,750 mi (20,519 km) Miles Driven by FSD v14 Lite: 12,057 (94.6%)
Charging Stops: 124 Total Energy: 4,091 kWh Total Charging Cost: $2,055.67
Longest Day: 967 miles Longest Gap Between Chargers: 244 mi (Coldfoot → Deadhorse) Slowest Charge: 2 days off a welding generator in Prudhoe Bay
Hottest Temp: 106°F (Florida) Coldest Temp: 21°F (Atigun Pass)
Windshield Cracks: 2 (thanks, RV) Flat Tires: 2 Cracked Rims: 1 Nails in Tire: 1 Breakdowns: 0 Battery Replacements: 0 (189,689 miles, original pack and motors)
The Dalton Highway has 3 places to charge in 494 miles and does not care about your plans.
A true testament to @Tesla 's reliability and support of their older vehicles.
Thank you to Pike at Coldfoot Camp, Chris in Tok, Mark in Prudhoe Bay who let two strangers charge off his welding generator, every sponsor on the shirt, and everyone who watched the livestream at 2am.
@Tesla has single-handedly changed my life for the better "
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The proof is in the pudding this is the 21st century, it's no longer its coming its already here with autonomous driving. The only question is how long until human controls are removed from vehicles due to insurance companies not state or federal mandates the insurance companies will simply make it to expensive for humans to absorb the risk of operations.
Huff and puff but search your feelings you know this to be true. Corporations run America not voters that's just fact.
Also note except for the North Fing slope there was chargers for Tesla everywhere you could conceivably drive Tesla has blanketed the continent with chargers 375 radius in a Model 3 LR means virtually no where in North America are you outside a charger range and even in the most remote Arctic circle location a generator off grid at that can sent you back to actual civilization.
We have taken our Model Y deep into Big Bend and to Burning Man in Black Rock with our 15kw trifuel genset on the hitch cargo rack and a couple of Jerry cans. We even buddy charged so fellow Tesla peeps with it way out there so they could run camping mode all day and night.
For those wondering its about 32 miles of model Y range per gallon of generator fuel used its good enough and the generator runs as its peak efficiency point you just set the amp draw to match its peak point easy peasy.
99.9% of miles is off solar panels off my roof once a year we road trip to BFE and take a genset we already own for storms so zero opportunity costs with us not only to charge if needed but to run the whole camp set up AC too.
Yup absolutely this is not the future its here for those who pay for it.
“94.6% including the Dalton Highway. If you were to remove the Dalton Highway it would round to 100. And if you removed parking there would be 4 seconds of manual driving on the whole trip”
https://x.com/koby_pierce/status/2084067727472226554
HW4 is even more advanced with FSD. Congrats on the journey.
Far out, man.
“DON’T Bogart that Joint”
What is ‘FSD?”
Full self driving.
They are literally proud that they did nothing.
They are literally proud that they did nothing.
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s impossible to understand how important this breakthrough is. If you have experienced experienced it, you get it.
I never in a million years thought I would own an EV. In fact, I used to ridicule them. I thought they were just a “solution” in search of a problem, and that “problem” was usually “saving the Earth.” I still think the “saving the Earth” stuff is sheer nonsense, but now that I own a Tesla, I can see all of the other benefits (the real benefits) that these cars deliver.
The rapid advancement of Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) was the hook that finally won me over, and I purchased a 2026 Model Y about four months ago. “Why self driving, when you can drive yourself?” There are a number of answers to that, but number one is the dramatically improved safety. Tesla claims their data shows FSD to now be seven times less accident-prone than a human driver. The insurance companies and some European countries that have done their own analyses estimate it to be two to three times safer. Either way, it is substantially safer than a human driver right now, and is only getting better as the software and hardware continue to advance further.
Several insurance companies now offer 50% off premiums if you let FSD do all of the driving. They’re not in the business of losing money, and they now have the actuarial data that proves that Tesla FSD is a safe bet. But safety isn’t the only benefit of this technology. Another important one is that FSD can allow elderly people to retain their independence when they reach the point that they no longer trust their own driving. Rather than the leftist “solution” of using mass transit (if you live through it) and giving up cars, FSD ensures that we all can continue to enjoy the freedom that having a personal vehicle provides, well into our old age or if we have a disability that would otherwise make it impossible to drive.
A Tesla is also the perfect retirement car, a big consideration for me since I am retired. Its operating and maintenance costs are far below those of gas powered vehicles, and you charge your car overnight every night, essentially giving you a “full tank” every morning. Using home charging, cost for your “fuel” can run around 2 cents or less per mile. There are also far fewer moving parts than in a conventional car, with almost no scheduled maintenance as a result. The one caveat is that if the car is damaged in an accident, it can be much more expensive to repair (but you have FSD doing a superhuman job of trying to prevent that, so that offsets the possible expense to some degree).
My wife and I were talking about this very thing the other day, I was the Executor of the Estate of my late Aunt, she lived in assisted living for 8 years, the last 2 years in palliative care, her monthly cost was close to $11,000/month.
Since I lived 2 hours away from her assisted living facility, I had to pay extra to make sure her needs were met.
In the not-too-distant future, it would be possible to have her remain in her home that I sold after she moved into assisted living.
With FSD, she could have remained independent, with home delivery of groceries, there is no real need to visit a grocery store or pharmacy.
The other big thing is if the home robots live up to their billing, Optimus units are supposedly going to sell for $25,000 to $30,000, which is surely to drop as the technology improves.
If you could get the robot trained to do all the daily household choirs, plus have an FSD automobile combined with home delivery of everything, the need for assisted living facilities if going to be dramatically reduced for many people.
My wife and I were talking about this very thing the other day, I was the Executor of the Estate of my late Aunt, she lived in assisted living for 8 years, the last 2 years in palliative care, her monthly cost was close to $11,000/month.
Since I lived 2 hours away from her assisted living facility, I had to pay extra to make sure her needs were met.
In the not-too-distant future, it would be possible to have her remain in her home that I sold after she moved into assisted living.
With FSD, she could have remained independent, with home delivery of groceries, there is no real need to visit a grocery store or pharmacy.
The other big thing is if the home robots live up to their billing, Optimus units are supposedly going to sell for $25,000 to $30,000, which is surely to drop as the technology improves.
If you could get the robot trained to do all the daily household choirs, plus have an FSD automobile combined with home delivery of everything, the need for assisted living facilities if going to be dramatically reduced for many people.
Thanks for asking. I didn’t know either!
Thank you
I did Key West to Homer Alaska via back roads, the Alaskan highway up to Fairbanks and back into Homer on my Harley in 10 days 9,132 miles and slept outside beside the bike.
No gps, just maps, no hotels and did the necessary repairs with a tool pouch.
F’ EVs.
“The only question is how long until human controls are removed from vehicles due to insurance companies not state or federal mandates the insurance companies will simply make it to expensive for humans to absorb the risk of operations.”
Maybe try holding your breath until it happens.
Slowest Charge: 2 days off a welding generator in Prudhoe Bay
Im sure there was a gas station a few minutes away.
Frikkin’ Stupid Donkeycart
If machines do everything whats the point of being alive?
Burning man?
🙄
Peace, brother.
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