Tesla has been quietly making changes to older contracts tied to the Full Self-Driving (FSD) package, with online documents now displaying “supervised” language that was not present when the software was originally purchased.
The issue, first reported by Electrek, appears to affect FSD agreements signed between 2016 and early 2024. Along with the updated wording in the document title, the original agreements can no longer be accessed through Tesla accounts.
We have been able to confirm the change on our own account. Under contracts and other documents for our Model 3, the FSD purchase agreement now says “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) – June 5, 2020.”
Additionally, attempting to open the file leads to an invalid page with an error message, which according to an AI analysis of that message, may indicate the order was “modified/cancelled/transferred and the invoice link became invalid.”
This change to add “supervised” to the agreement is in direct contradiction with our purchase confirmation email, which clearly states “Full Self-Driving Capability” was purchased, and not “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).”
The distinction has become important as Tesla’s messaging around FSD has evolved over the years. Until 2024, Tesla sold the package under the name “Full Self-Driving Capability,” frequently promoting the idea that existing vehicles would eventually become capable of unsupervised, or fully autonomous, driving through future software updates.
That changed in March 2024 when Tesla officially dropped the “beta” tag and renamed the system “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).” This change suggested buyers may have to pay extra once unsupervised FSD was unlocked, although this has never fully been confirmed by the company.
That update took on even greater significance earlier this year when CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that HW3-equipped vehicles will not be capable of achieving unsupervised self-driving using their current hardware.
“Unfortunately, Hardware 3, I wish it were otherwise, but Hardware 3 simply does not have the capability to achieve unsupervised FSD,” Musk said during Tesla’s April earnings call. “We did think at one point it would, but relative to Hardware 4 it has only 1/8 the memory bandwidth of Hardware 4.”
Whether the document changes are intentional, some sort of error, or part of a broader update to Tesla’s online records, remains to be seen until the link to the actual contract works and doesn’t return an error message. However, the change adds even more attention to the company’s handling of FSD for owners of older HW3-equipped vehicles that may never achieve the autonomous capabilities originally envisioned when the software was sold.
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