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Tesla Fan Attempts Coast-To-Coast FSD Drive, Ends Up With A $22,000 Repair Bill


The YouTuber attempted to do what Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested back in 2016. It nearly ended in disaster, with a huge repair bill and a big headache.

Demaree was joined by a friend, and the duo set off from San Diego, California, activating Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver assistance system and hoping that they would get to the other side of the country without any intervention. They continued to drive, but the biggest issue popped up at the next charging stop, where the car refused to take any energy from the Supercharger and threw several errors, including one that said the front electric motor was no longer working. "What's most disconcerting and unpredictable is that you may watch FSD successfully negotiate a specific scenario many times–often on the same stretch of road or intersection–only to have it inexplicably fail the next time," said Guy Mangiamele, Director of AMCI Testing.

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