Tesla has confirmed that allowing drivers to manually set a limit when FSD is active is not going to return. Instead, the car will learn to control the speed based on the owner’s driving habits.
According to Tesla AI chief, Ashok Elluswamy, the automaker prefers a system whereby FSD acts based on the user’s implied intent.
Elluswamy was responding to a post on X by @DavidMoss who stated he wished Tesla never returns Max Speed to FSD.
Max speed control is an anti pattern.
We are working on better learning of user’s implied preferences.
— Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) August 3, 2026
A closer look at recent FSD builds shows the direction Tesla is heading. Fixed Max Speed has now been replaced with Speed Profiles such as Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry, and Mad Max. The various profiles are meant to match how the driver wants to drive at any particular time.
Company boss Elon Musk had earlier stated that FSD will learn from drivers’ interactions with the ADAS, including interventions such as braking or acceleration override.
Tesla actually has legitimate reasons to abandon manual speed settings. In Europe, Sweden recently petitioned the EU not to approve FSD. The reason was the manual speed toggle that drivers could use to drive above speed limits. Tesla is facing a similar challenge in France.
There is no info on when Tesla will generally roll out smarter speed selection, but the feature could come with a major FSD update. However, such a release may not be far off, as the automaker’s Robotaxi vehicles have already received FSD version 15 early builds, which have enough grunt to power smarter speed selection.
Meanwhile, Tesla remains proud of FSD, and boasts it is now 5.2 times safer than human drivers. The ADAS package has logged 65 million kilometres in Europe since launch, with about 1.5 million subscribers globally.
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