Tesla adds ‘streaks’ and other stats to track how often drivers use Full Self-Driving software

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7:33 AM PDT · April 14, 2026

Tesla is rolling retired a caller self-driving app that makes it easier for owners to subscribe to its Full Self-Driving bundle and spot statistic connected however — and however often — they usage it. The app, which volition show accusation astir FSD, including multi-day streaks, adding a gamified constituent to the operator assistance software.

The institution teased the redesigned self-driving app, on with a slew of different caller features that volition beryllium included successful its adjacent large bundle update, successful a post connected X.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is an precocious operator assistance strategy that launched successful beta successful precocious 2020, and has had regular consequent updates to region bugs, amended reliability, and performance. The strategy — disposable with a $99 monthly subscription — handles driving maneuvers specified arsenic steering, lane changes, and parking. FSD inactive requires progressive operator supervision, which means vehicles equipped with the bundle are not autonomous.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to presumption the institution arsenic an AI and robotics powerhouse, not conscionable an automaker. FSD is portion of that mission. Hitting “10 cardinal progressive FSD subscriptions” by 2035 is 1 of the cardinal “product goals” required for Musk to person the afloat payout of his caller $1 trillion wage package.

The recently redesigned self-driving app mightiness not look consequential successful Tesla’s bid to thrust adoption of FSD, but it does transportation immoderate weight. Today, Tesla owners tin subscribe to FSD wrong the vehicle’s touchscreen oregon mobile app, but it takes a fewer steps to scope the due spot.

The caller app volition fto owners subscribe successful 1 tap. A caveat is that the diagnostic is lone disposable to owners of Tesla vehicles with the A14 chip, besides known arsenic FSD Hardware 4.0, which began shipping successful vehicles successful January 2023.

Once accessed, the updated self-driving app volition show a assortment of stats that spell acold beyond what Tesla owners with FSD spot today. Current FSD subscribers spot the full fig of miles driven compared to the percent driven utilizing FSD.

This latest update volition show a mates of graphics, including the FSD usage successful a barroom chart. It volition besides way and show idiosyncratic “streaks,” for consecutive days FSD is used.

FSD (Supervised) is disposable successful the Australia, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Korea and the United States. Dutch regulator RDW approved the usage of FSD connected April 10 aft researching and investigating the product.

Kirsten Korosec is simply a newsman and exertion who has covered the aboriginal of proscription from EVs and autonomous vehicles to municipality aerial mobility and in-car tech for much than a decade. She is presently the proscription exertion astatine TechCrunch and co-host of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. She is besides co-founder and co-host of the podcast, “The Autonocast.” She antecedently wrote for Fortune, The Verge, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and CBS Interactive.

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