Tesla CEO Elon Musk has teased two upcoming features for Full Self-Driving (FSD), including one capability he has mentioned before and another highly requested addition related to parking.
Currently, Tesla’s FSD system is designed to guide a vehicle from one destination to another after the driver enters a destination through the navigation. From there, the software independently determines the route and handles the driving task with little to ideally no driver input.
However, the system has limited ability to account for personal route preferences. Owners have long pointed out situations where FSD chooses a less desirable approach, and in those cases, drivers must temporarily take control to guide the vehicle where they want it to go before reactivating FSD.
That’s where language prompts come in. Rather than following a predetermined route without context, drivers could potentially tell the vehicle to avoid a particular intersection, take a different entrance, stop at a preferred pickup location, or make other route adjustments using conversational voice commands.
Earlier this year in February Musk responded to a user on X who pointed this out as being one of FSDs greatest shortcomings, only saying this feature would be “coming” without giving a specific timeline.
Now Musk has given us one. Last night he said the ability to prompt FSD with language is coming within “about 3 months or so.”
Unfortunately, Musk’s timeline was somewhat vague, so don’t be surprised if it takes longer than 3 months to arrive. Presumably, it will all be handled through Grok, the new in-car voice assistant that was added through a software update last year.
This functionality will be there in about 3 months or so
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2026
The other feature Musk teased relates to parking. In a separate post on X, he revealed that upcoming versions of FSD will be able to remember parking preferences for specific destinations.
According to Musk, the feature will work across a variety of common locations, including homes, offices, schools, and other regularly visited places. For example, a Tesla could learn to pull into a particular driveway at home, park in a designated employee parking lot or spot at work, or navigate to a preferred school drop-off zone without requiring additional input from the driver.
Musk went on to point out that disengagements due to parking issues are “by far the biggest reason” drivers disengage FSD, and that “critical safety interventions are extremely rare.”
Unlike the language feature, Musk did not provide a specific timeline, only saying it would arrive in “upcoming releases.” Hopefully that means sooner rather than later.
Destination parking is by far the biggest reason people now intervene with FSD. Critical safety interventions are extremely rare.
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