Tesla has off Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system, as the company tries to adopt a more advanced version of the technology it calls full self-driving (supervised).

The decision comes as the company faces a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California, its largest US market. A judge ruled in December that Tesla was complicit Deceptive marketing Over the years the capabilities of autopilot and FSD have been overstated. The California DMV, which originally brought the case and has a say on the licenses, suspended the ruling for 60 days to allow Tesla to comply by dropping the Autopilot name.

Autopilot was a combination of Traffic Aware Cruise Control, which sticks to a set speed while maintaining a distance to the vehicle in front, and Autosteer, a lane-focusing feature that steers the car around curves.

Tesla’s online configuration site now says the new car now only comes standard with traffic-aware cruise control. It is not clear if existing customers are affected.

The decision comes a week after the company said so Starting from 14 FebruaryIt will also stop charging a one-time $8,000 fee for FSD software After that, customers will only be able to access FSD through a monthly subscription of $99 — though Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post Subscription prices will increase as the software’s capabilities improve on Thursday.

Musk believes Tesla’s new cars will be capable of “supervised” driving, saying FSD advancements will allow drivers to “stay on your phone or sleep the entire ride.” In December, he said a new version of the FSD allowed the former, though Texting while driving is illegal in almost all states.

On Thursday, Tesla rolled out First Robotaxis version Its Model Y SUV in Austin, Texas has no human safety monitoring personnel in the vehicle. These vehicles are running more advanced versions of the company’s driving software and still follow the company’s vehicles for supervision

Tesla launched a beta version of its fully self-driving software in late 2020, but adoption has always lagged behind the expectations of executives like Musk. In October 2025, Tesla’s chief financial officer is Vaibhav Taneja said Only 12% of all Tesla customers paid for the software. A key “product goal” is to hit “10 million active FSD subscriptions” by 2035. Musk needs to get paid in full His new $1 trillion pay package.

Tesla first introduced Autopilot in the early 2010s After the discussion broke down between Musk and Google to take advantage of technology developed by the search giant’s then-autonomous driving division (which eventually became Waymo). Tesla has made the driver assistance system standard All vehicles as of April 2019.

Throughout the decade-plus of Autopilot’s existence, Tesla struggled to communicate the software’s capabilities. The company often overpromises and makes the technology seem more capable than it is, causing some drivers to become overconfident in its capabilities, leading to hundreds of crashes and at least 13 fatalities. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.