Is there any other car company that decides to upgrade older cars that were sold 7 years ago...It blows my mind that HW3 car owners woke up to an update that brought their cars into 2026 with an over the air software upgrade.
Tesla Motors actually cares about its consumers. Brand loyalty, at least for me, is through the sunroof!
Going from 6 mph to 8 mph is actually a great boost. The car is a Model Y Juniper AWD. She did really well, and was really responsive.
The only issue was I got an over the air update alert that seemed to mess with it. Other than that, it was pretty smooth! I got some good laughs with my dog in the driver's seat.
9 years old now, but still looks like a pup!
I've been recording Tesla FSD around Greater Boston for about 8 months, running FSD at 98%. Super happy with it, and I trust the tech stack with my family. It does wonky things here and there like swerving to avoid a different color patch of tar, but never in a way that puts my family, other drivers, or pedestrians at risk. Really happy that HW3 owners are getting an upgrade now!
There's a lot of noise out there about where autonomous driving actually stands right now. The footage speaks for itself.
I used Suno AI to rap the entire drive. Every lyric matches what happens on screen (that was fun to do). Sharing the short version here and the full 2:50 version is on the autonomousboston YT channel.
Took Nova (2026 Model Y) on a new route this week — Brookline to Walpole on surface roads through Newton, Needham, Dedham, Norwood, and Canton. FSD threw two surprises at us.
**Issue 1: Speed bump at 30 mph**
FSD completely misread a clearly marked speed bump and sent us over it at full speed. Not a subtle miss — it was a well-marked hump on a residential road. Clean example of FSD getting the read wrong.
**Issue 2: The Walpole Ghost**
Nova swerved for what looked like absolutely nothing. Reviewed the footage and the only thing we could identify was a patch of road where the tar color changed to a noticeably darker shade. Phantom brake/swerve triggered by a pavement color change.
Has anyone else seen FSD react to road surface color changes like this? Would love to know if this is a known pattern.
Just talked to my elderly friend about what she called, "The Tesla robot car crash," which got my blood boiling. By now you've seen the headlines. "Tesla on Autopilot kills woman in Texas home." The NHTSA opened a probe. NBC, ABC, Fox all ran it as a self-driving failure story.
Here's what those headlines buried: the driver had the accelerator pinned at 100%, hitting 73 mph on a residential street— and kept it floored even after the crash.
Pressing the accelerator is a driver override in both Autopilot and FSD. When your foot is to the floor, the system is not driving. You are.
If someone on cruise control floors it in a Honda and kills someone, we call that human error. This is no different.
I wrote up the full breakdown here, including the difference between Autopilot and FSD (which almost every outlet got wrong), and what we still don't know pending the investigation:
autonomousboston.com/news/katy-texas-crash-fsd-myths
Not here to defend Tesla's naming — a California court already ruled that was deceptive. But bad marketing and the facts of this specific crash are two separate conversations.
My dog has taught me all about perseverance.
She is such a sweet soul. She’s 9 years old and looks like a pup. Last month she had a 5 pound tumor removed along with her spleen. Luckily it turned out to be benign!
Here’s to many more years with this lovely lady.