<div id="readability-page-1">Tesla has announced a crazy new Full Self-Driving milestone, as it has officially confirmed drivers have surpassed over 8 billion miles traveled using the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) suite for semi-autonomous travel. The FSD (Supervised) suite is one of the most robust on the market, and is among the safest from a data perspective available to the public. On Wednesday, Tesla confirmed in a post on X that it has officially surpassed the 8 billion-mile mark, just a few months after reaching 7 billion cumulative miles, which was announced on December 27, 2025. <blockquote> Tesla owners have now driven &gt;8 billion miles on FSD Supervisedhttps://t.co/0d66ihRQTa pic.twitter.com/TXz9DqOQ8q — Tesla (@Tesla) February 18, 2026</blockquote> The number of miles traveled has contextual significance for two reasons: one being the milestone itself, and another being Tesla’s continuing progress toward 10 billion miles of training data to achieve what CEO Elon Musk says will be the threshold needed to achieve unsupervised self-driving. The milestone itself is significant, especially considering Tesla has continued to gain valuable data from every mile traveled. However, the pace at which it is gathering these miles is getting faster. Secondly, in January, Musk said the company would need “roughly 10 billion miles of training data” to achieve safe and unsupervised self-driving. “Reality has a super long tail of complexity,” Musk said. Training data primarily means the fleet’s accumulated real-world miles that Tesla uses to train and improve its end-to-end AI models. This data captures the “long tail” — extremely rare, complex, or unpredictable situations that simulations alone cannot fully replicate at scale. This is not the same as the total miles driven on Full Self-Driving, which is the 8 billion miles milestone that is being celebrated here. The FSD-supervised miles contribute heavily to the training data, but the 10 billion figure is an estimate of the cumulative real-world exposure needed overall to push the system to human-level reliability. The post Tesla announces crazy new Full Self-Driving milestone appeared first on TESLARATI.</div>

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Tesla has announced a significant milestone, surpassing 8 billion miles traveled using its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite for semi-autonomous travel. This achievement is crucial as it contributes to the company's goal of reaching 10 billion miles of training data, which CEO Elon Musk states is necessary for achieving unsupervised self-driving. The FSD suite is recognized for its robustness and safety, and the rapid accumulation of miles enhances Tesla's AI training, capturing complex real-world scenarios.

- Tesla has surpassed 8 billion miles of travel using its Full Self-Driving (FSD) suite, nearing its goal of 10 billion miles to achieve unsupervised self-driving.  
- This milestone indicates progress in gathering crucial training data for improving its AI models, with CEO Elon Musk noting that extensive real-world exposure is necessary for reliability.  
- The pace of accumulating these miles is increasing, illustrating Tesla's commitment to refining its autonomous driving technology.