---
title: "Tesla Owners Furious That Elon Musk Keeps Pushing Back Full Self-Driving"
description: "It's been nearly five years since Musk first announced the full self driving feature and very little progress has been made on it."
date: "2021-09-17"
modified: "2021-09-17"
authors:
  - name: "Tony Ho Tran"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ttran"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-owners-furious"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Self-Driving Vehicles"
  - "Tesla"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "full self-driving"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Tesla Owners Furious That Elon Musk Keeps Pushing Back Full Self-Driving

![It's been nearly five years since Musk first announced the full self driving feature and very little progress has been made on it.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TESLA-SELF.jpg>)
*Picture Alliance / Getty / Futurism \<em\>Image: Picture Alliance / Getty / Futurism\</em\>*

## Overpromise, Underdeliver

Full self-driving (FSD), Tesla’s higher-tier driver assistance feature, has long been [touted by CEO Elon Musk](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294374864657162240>) as the future of self-driving cars. However, five years since its announcement, there’s been woefully little progress — and Tesla is even getting sued over it.

The [long delays](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-surprised-self-driving-cars-difficult>), [underperformance](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-driving-not-great>), and [deadly accidents](<https://futurism.com/investigators-release-new-details-about-deadly-tesla-crash>) surrounding FSD have resulted in more headaches for Tesla owners than they anticipated, [according to *CNN*](<https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/cars/tesla-fsd-delay/index.html>)*.* A few even spoke to the network to voice their frustrations over Tesla and Musk's promises.

"He's put out random tweets for three years that say, 'Oh, yeah, full self-driving is getting ready to come out,'" Tesla owner Brian Self told *CNN*. "You can't believe them anymore."

## Going to Court

It’s gotten so bad for the electric car company that one Tesla owner even [filed a lawsuit](<https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/4lmsbyy8k/albuquerque-district-court/joel-m-young-v-tesla-inc/>) in Albuquerque, New Mexico district court saying that the company made false and misleading claims about FSD.

The situation isn’t helped by Musk, who's boasted about the feature numerous times in the past. Back in 2016, he even [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789022017311735808>) that when "you want your car to return, tap Summon on your phone. It will eventually find you even if you are on the other side of the country."

The tech works okay in parking lots — with [numerous caveats](<https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/i-watched-over-100-tesla-smart-summon-videos-heres-what-i-learned/>) — but the vision described by Musk isn't anywhere near available, and it doesn’t seem like it'll be within the realm of possibility in at least the near future.

## The Future of FSD

Despite all the issues, Musk is still strikingly confident about FSD’s future. Last week, he even said that the next FSD beta would "[blow your mind](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-next-full-self-driving-beta-will-blow-your-mind>)." Of course, that comes on the heels of Musk admitting that Tesla’s FSD is "[actually not great"](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-driving-not-great>) in late August.

So as with all things Musk — and especially when it comes to FSD — it’s important to take his comments with a grain of salt.

**READ MORE:** [Some Tesla owners are losing trust in Elon Musk's promises of 'full self-driving' ](<https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/cars/tesla-fsd-delay/index.html>)\[*CNN*\]

**More on FSD:** [*Elon Musk Admits That Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Is “Not Great”*](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-driving-not-great>)

## Author
Tony Tran is a former reporter for Futurism, and now an editor at the Daily Beast. His work has been seen in Playboy, HuffPost, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago where he frequently plans tabletop gaming sessions for his friends.