Autosteer to come back?

No, it won’t come back. The new cars don’t have Autosteer.

Any new models will not have auto steer so they want you to use FSD

Welp, that just ruined half the reason I bought a new car

Right! I'll never buy another brand new Tesla. I'll get a 25 model s next year and that will be the last Tesla. Bummer cause it's the best brand car I've owned

I hope after Elon either gets or doesn't get his compensation package maybe we'll get Autosteer back I guess

Daddy Elon gotta get that trillion dollars. Forcing you to subscribe to get the good stuff. Shitty they got rid of it

Just get fsd

I transferred my FSD..

For real!

Then why do you care about autopilot?? FSD is the better feature anyway.

Fine if they want to charge for it, just keep it as an option

Both have their advantages, I prefer the option to choose which system I use.

Autosteer is crappy compared to FSD. It’s kinda scary when in use. It bounces around in the lane at times. It sticks to the right lane a little too close. It breaks/stops a little too late from the cars in front. I would never use autosteer if I had FSD.

He thinks people will be more likely to buy FSD now that people can’t use auto steer 😂

You might have something wrong with you camera calibration, or cameras themselves. I do not have that issue, my Autopilot is locked in the Middle of the lane.

Yeah he's herding people towards the subscribe button 😮‍💨

For FSD don’t you have to set an address up to use it where autosteer you just turn off and on ?

Nope! I turn on FSD and it starts driving. Using blinkers to control direction as needed.

Thanks. I’ve only ever been in Teslas with autosteer so I didn’t know for sure. Autosteer is pointless then for sure unless I hear the advantages op is referring to.

I was hoping to get Autosteer as an option with FSD, but yeah it seems it's gone for good. Only available on pre-2/2/26 models that purchased it.

Well you would think you’ve verified before buying a new car. Most people are concerned paying/keeping FSD because of the cost and you want the low level version that isn’t as capable. Lol

I asked before buying and I was told I would keep it.

FSD still does some awkward stuff. Like leaving the HOV lane. Making a pass when the line of cars are all making the same turn. AP is great in familiar rush hour traffic. Bumper to bumper and I just want to stay in the lane I know cause nobody is going anywhere. Let the driver switch it off, mash the throttle for spirited passing. TACC is great too. When I want to make those S curves and cut up traffic manually and willl save me if I get slightly distracted and traffic up front stalls. At minimum Tesla should have TACC and Lane Centering on $30,000 cars. Prius can do it. Makes a huge difference in mental relaxation driving daily.

The green light chime was brought back to basic Teslas after a major public uproar when Tesla included it but then reserved it for EAP and FSD. The signal stalk is back. Round steering wheel option after Musk said they would never have it on the Plaid.

Same here, AP is rock solid for highway driving

For the people with FSD, TACC + Autosteer should still exist. Taking it away from non-FSD cars is already bad enough, but it should at least replace basic TACC for people who shelled out the money for FSD!

That's a bad take. If it's the best car, there's a hell of a lot more than autopilot that made it that. The basic autopilot that came standard has been replicated by so many other OEMs at this point.

Maybe, they did just settle with California about the definition of Autosteer. Some think they just removed it to void the lawsuit. Or they did something to appease California.

You can’t even buy it anymore lmao it’s now only subscription based as of 2/14

Not a smooth as FSD, but I prefer lane lock and speed lock over my car doing whatever it wants randomly on longer roads.

Autosteer sucks

When I had the trial of FSD, I hated the lane change even on chill mode, or when it lane change too close To other cars.

But when I used the FSD trial, it was so smooth.

So be clear this is your old car? What year is your old car? Did it have autopilot and you added FSD or did you order it with FSD?

Yeah, if AP was ever updated to be a smooth at lane centering as FSD I’d prefer it hands down for highway driving. But that is why they refuse(d) to ever update it. They know. They should just have a cheap fully updated option for like $20/mo call it EnhancedAI Lane Assistant or some dumb shit.

Most people don't want FSD. They won't want their car deciding for itself when to change lanes or how fast to drive. But your autosteer sounds broken, because mine is the opposite of yours. And it TACC brakes wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too early (ever since they removed the radars and increased the minimum follow distance). To the point of being unbelievably annoying to have to use the accelerator every single time I want to pass someone. Almost defeats the purpose of having it. I wish it would brake too late, so I dont have to override it every 2 minutes.

The issue isn’t that other manufacturers replicated it, the issue is that you can’t have it anymore. A 50-100k car without the possibility of basic autosteer is just insane. I use it nearly 80% of my drives and would not buy a car without it.

I can't wait untill the numbers start showing.  Who would buy a car where you have to subscribe for basic features? Can't buy outright, forever paying for a car you supposedly own outright

I know buying more hardware is still not ideal but you can retrofit comma ai to get a better system

I took delivery of a new X on 2/16 and still got Autosteer as a third option.

comma.ai

This is what I dont understand. Autopilot was/is terrible IMO. The phantom braking alone is a reason to never use it. I happen to have Comma.ai but I still sub to FSD just for fun... if I didn't have comma I'd be going out and buying it because it drives like an adult, where autopilot is like handing your keys to a 15 year old with a learners permit.

Uh have you seen Tesla deliveries for 2 years? Pretty sure numbers are showing, and we want Elon out. The problem is Tesla is 10x overvalued as a car company - which is what it is.

How difficult is it?

No, that was the thing that pushed it to best. Bad take haha

The problem is even if you do FSD you still don't have regular Auto steer like I don't want FSD. I'm not interested in FSD. I just want want basic Auto steer.

Pretty sure they are trying to phase it out for liability reasons and massive media misportrayal of autosteer/autopilot being the same as FSD whenever any tesla crash happens on it. It also skews the stats much worse as all “autopilot” crashes are used instead of ones just on FSD

Why would you need it if you already have FSD?

Just wait until they start pushing ads every time you enter your car. "Did you know your car can self drive? Sign up today and get 13 months for the price of 12!" (Tap here to dismiss this offer) Followed by "Are you sure you want to dismiss this incredible offer?" After tapping meanwhile you're bleeding out cause you wanted to go to the hospital 😂

the problem isn't autosteer going away...its that its not getting any improvement. spend a few weeks on FSD supervised and you'll not want the current implementation of autosteer. i personally think they should have improved autosteer and that could sell FSD Supervised better. Single lane autosteer is garbage and highway autosteer is just okay. The combined TACC/AutoSteer is so much worse than FSD Supervised in just speed and lane management that its a shame that the OG AutoPilot features are being left to rot away. My FSD Subscription ended 13 Feb and I tried to go back to just autopilot. I lasted 6 days and resubscribed. FSD Supervised (HW4) is just so freaking good. you'll get hooked.

This is the new car Tesla for whatever reason decided auto steer shouldn’t come with them 🤦‍♂️

It will come back if customers refuse to buy new ones without autosteer. It was one of the appeals of the car...even the lowest base level Tesla had autosteer, where something like the Chevy Bolt I was going to get you'd have to get the fully loaded top trim EUV with options to have their blue cruise that only worked on mapped highways, then pay a monthly fee...and then it cost almost what a base model 3 did and had 50kw charging....so I got a Tesla. Don't think I'd buy a new one today....I'd get a used one with autosteer for less money.

Not that difficult there's lots of vids out there, almost like installing a dashcam

Without Autopilot their only advantage is the Supercharger network... oh wait... never mind, no advantages left. I wouldn't have considered another car besides Tesla (despite Elon's antics), but now that they've voluntarily given up that advantage, I would definitely shop around.

If you have FSD and enable it with no destination, doesn’t that do what autosteer did?

Damn I might have actually hit the jackpot. I bought a new model y Jan 31 that has the 16” screen, new camera housing, and it still has autosteer

You meant Waymo. It’s already happening.

You had FSD transferred why would autosteer be any of use to you? Autosteer is 10+ old software never got updated. Unless Tesla decides to update that you better off not using it.

Autosteer is stupid compared to FSD. Maybe 1 out of 100 customers who are on FSD would care for autosteer.

Better? lol. Comma ai is not remotely in the same league as FSD.

He’s herding people to alternatives imo.

You need to drink your coffee. We're talking about auto steer not FSD lol

I tried FSD during a trial and hated it. It wouldn’t ever stay in a lane. It randomly just kept getting over even when there was no one really around me. Also it was terrible in my small town and kept trying to clip the curb on turns so I wouldn’t use it locally. Just give me autosteer on highways and I’ll be happy.

Yeah right now, because they obviously purchased or subscribe to it because they want it... That is a weird thing to point out since it's so obvious. Why would they subscribe to fsd, if they didn't want fsd? What my point is, for those of us who don't want fsd, let alone subscribe to it, still want and use auto steer all the time.

Autosteer is no longer even good without resorting to cruise control when changing lanes. It is absolutely ruined. 100% ruined, so doesn't really matter if you have autopilot anymore. Elon won, I subscribed to FSD just because of that. It pisses me off

People don't own Waymo cars. When you get these ads on your $59,995 Tesla you already paid for. Well....it hits different.

You are talking about hyperbole when there’s no ad and nothing indicates it’s coming. VS Waymo the ads are already here. Not sure what your point is or just trying to be funny

This is my new model Y which I transferred FSD to, my old car was a 21 M3. This one said TACC on the order when I bought the car I was led to believe transferring FSD would give it the same features as my old 3

Seriously? A lot of car manufacturers lock features behind paywalls.

No ads, yet. How people never learn is astonishing to me. For the record, yes I was being funny with the hyperbole but also understand reality with these companies never ending greed.

So when did Tesla ever sell ad? That’s not the business model they operate in. You are inferring something that has no base.

Yeah, 2019 FSD owner I considered getting a 2026 Y for FSD transfer but not after they removed AP. FSD is nice but it's alpha quality software with how many regressions it has from version to version. Tesla needs to improve their software quality control. Having no-frills AP even with all its demons is mandatory to fall back on.

There have absolutely been pop ups in the car to try to get you to subscribe to fsd. It's not outside the realm of possibility that they could return, or be even more annoying.

Autosteer was very old tech and needed to be upgraded/replaced. I'm pretty sure Tesla will add something better based on FSD at some point to replace the free-tier, but it's unfortunate that there is nothing between then and there.

No. When clicking the FSD button/pulling the stalk - the car turns on FSD with no destination. It will take turns, change lanes. It will just do it aimlessly. Its unfortunately common for me to be distracted, by a conversation with a passenger thinking I set a destination, for FSD to take me out of the parking lot or street and immediately start with turning the opposite direction I want to go in. Which is startling, but the car still is in FSD mode.

I think you’ll find more than one out of a hundred.. me included if it wasn’t so expensive. I’ll only subscribe for a road trip.. and everything moving to subscription based doesn’t make it any easier

I think it will come back. There's been a lot of FOMO tactics recently. The S/X discontinuation, the Cybertruck price decrease, and FSD buyout to sub only. I think this is to get people to buy quick and hit those numbers. I don't think it's going to work. In about a year, so many other companies will be releasing their versions of FSD and EVs and probably for cheaper. Elon wants to hit that trillion mark and has little time to do it.

I think $99/month is a steal. Skip a meal out or a few Starbucks you are there. But I was specifically referred to those already has FSD, there’s no reason needing autosteer if you already have FSD.

I hate subscriptions/don't want to pay $100/month...also didn't want to pay $8k for FSD...used the free trials they gave...while it wasn't terrible, I hated that if you had FSD enabled you couldn't also use regular autopilot or adaptive cruise control without going through the menus and turning off FSD. Like why can't I have 2 pulls for FSD and one for either cruise control or autopilot? But yeah, for regular highway cruising, autopilot does what I need it to.

But that scenario isn’t one you’d use autosteer in, right? I guess I’m thinking the typical use case for when I’d want to use autosteer is I’m on the highway going somewhere and would like the car to maintain the driving direction. If I engage FSD with no destination set, isn’t that basically the same thing? I guess it would change lanes and such with FSD vs autosteer. I’m just not getting what scenario I want just autosteer vs FSD with no destination. Maybe I’m missing something about autosteer. Now if I don’t pay for FSD, then I totally get it.

It can exit and over take, change lanes on the highway. Its not autosteer + TACC. Its FSD still.

FSD with no destination can exit? That’s wild and would scare me.

You’re actually wrong. Those “free trials” they keep pushing out and it pops up on your screen unsolicited? That’s an ad.

Ah, so you're hoping the new car will get the option for traditional autopilot even though it has FSD.  Yeah, I fear you won't get that as only FSD was transferred.  You're in a weird spot as you have FSD but no autopilot. I'd ha e expected Tesla to not have this transition period and to have stopped transfers once they went subscription only.

Yeah, they expect you to use FSD because its 'better'

That’s not an ad. That’s like iPhone reminding you should subscribe to iCloud. Do you think Netflix asking you to upgrade to multi user account is an ad?

FSD doesn't stick to a specific set speed and can't be set to stay in its lane forever anymore. I have FSD and switch to autosteer on the highway all the time to avoid the frustration, when I just want predictability and a given speed

Funny I picked up my new Y on 2/2/26. Started the process that Friday before though. It was on the truck in inventory so no wait. Transferred FSD, I think I still have the option for auto steer but would have to double check as FSD works pretty well in my area.

Yes, that’s literally an advertisement to upgrade your service. If it tries to sell you something unsolicited, that’s an ad. Also, I’ve never had an unsolicited pop up from Apple just by turning on my phone to subscribe to iCloud, nor have I had Netflix ask me to upgrade to a multi user account without attempting to use that feature.

Yeah you locked in before it went away. I was hoping it would have stayed until 2/14, which was the FSD one time purchase deadline, but those had two separate deadlines. We did pay for AAP when we got our '23 M3, so at least we can use it there forever!

Have you seen all cars sales lately ..it's not just Tesla. If anything the Model Y is the most sold car in the world. Also overall Tesla earnings are up, they don't just build cars.

Wow I had completely forgotten about this! I might have to get this for my wifes car. I hate driving it because it lacks auto steer and tacc.

If autosteer is also function of that annual connection package. I believe it will sell

I would have agreed when I commuted 2.5 hours a day 5 days a week. I'm now working from home 2 days a week, and have a half hour drive to work. Guess I'll be keeping my 2022 Model Y with FSD for the foreseeable future.

Autopilot code hasn’t been touched in 10 years, it’s rotted away and they’re looking to migrate away from it

This is the way! A new Tesla is absolutely insane now.. 50 or 60 grand for an empty car with cruise control and a view of the sun, especially while the used ones are still low mileage and fully complete, has to be the new definition of insanity. The “cheap” one that’s only 40 grand is just a shell. Buy used or move on is the only way. 🎯 Edit: Thank you kind person for the award, and being able to understand reason.. will pay it forward! 🙏

They still have the best software. Rivian is the only one competing with them on features. Even lucid biffed their software and app. All the legacy autos (gm, ford, etc) have absolute dogshit software/UX. Nobody else knows wtf they're doing except Tesla and Rivian.

It was an interesting gimmick, but what earned Tesla their marketshare was the fact that they were the first EV to not suck. Climate conscious people finally had an option for something that doesn't use gasoline and also was a decently nice car. Nobody ever wanted a Nissan leaf. And the Prius was efficient, but still used gas. Tesla's core customer was affluent liberals for a very long time, pretty much until EM started supporting you-know-who. Autopilot made a few headlines, but it was just one feature for the overall package.

Exactly - other OEMs have it, so you wouldn't consider a car without it.

It didnt really need to be touched. It was perfectly fine. Autopilot is a matured software its not a Beta like FSD.

Yeah dude thats definitely not my experience with AP. Might want to get that checked out.

What... I asked in multiple places on reddit if you can still use Autosteer if you subscribe to FSD and was told yes multiple times... I was going to recommend my friend with a long commute consider the Y with 0% APR but I can't in good conscious now.

Yep. Even base model cars from Honda and Toyota come standard with traffic aware cruise control and lane keep assist. Making auto-steer a paid feature immediately puts Tesla behind other cars out there.

It just goes wherever they need training data!

What I hated the most, was curviture assist. Most of the times it would activate and slam on the brakes for no reason

Technically Autopilot has been “beta” for more than a decade now. It actually never came out of beta. They were thinking about it before they removed it completely https://teslanorth.com/2025/11/25/tesla-may-finally-drop-beta-label-from-autopilot/

Part of the reason for dropping it was California's threat to Tesla that they wouldn't be allowed to sell their cars anymore with anything called "Autopilot", since the state claimed that the name was deceptive because people misunderstood what it meant.

FSD on a 2026 Y compared to a 2019 vehicle is ~3x better. If you’re looking to transfer to a 2026, go try an overnight test drive and see for yourself. Reddit has become the worst audience to gauge true representation of anything from. 3x is an arbitrary amount, but the capability jump between v12 to v14 is massive. I had both. If you have to have Autopilot, sure, but I haven’t used Autopilot a single time since 2021 so I can’t relate.

If France throws him in jail maybe we can get it back then?

When I had complimentary FSD sometime back, if you disabled the FSD, you were able to get the equivalent of EAP, enhanced autopilot. It would autosteer, but instead of the brain-dead lane change logic that FSD uses, it would allow you to make your own lane change decisions, but it would do the lane change for you. The best of both worlds. I would rather have EAP than autosteer, and I'd rather have autosteer than FSD. I hate fighting with the stupid lane change logic that FSD uses.

If customers stop buying. American consumers waste a ton of money on new cars. People are still jumping on latest 0.99% apr. hope they are small minority.

Nope, literally the final deciding factor for me to get one. My other car is 1937 Dodge, gets about 10 miles to the gallon, climate was not even a consideration, and I am far from liberal. It was cost of ownership and driving, acceleration and autopilot.

Not going to happen. It's abandoned technology that needs to die. Contrary to popular belief it wasn't a move to sell FSD, it was a move to start phasing out an abandoned technology that hasn't been meaningfully updated in years.

When did you buy one? Buying it just for an autopilot that doesn't even work very well is certainly a choice.

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All other American cars have free auto steer they center themselves in the middle of the lane on highways. How can testla force you to pay for fsd for the car to stay in lane. It's a rip off. I'm keeping my 2024 ylr.

Just? Selective reading is a choice.

No, Ive totally done this and this specifically to clear my mind. Not a joy ride, but took it on a road and turned on AP and just... let her run until i wanted to turn around. I dont have to babysit it like a lane changing FSD would, and it respects the speed I set, lane I'm in, and traffic controls (lights specifically). Its gone. I doubt we'll see that iteration if it back - you can bet that future versions of TACC/Lane keeping will be derived from FSD - so they dont need to maintain this old legacy auto pilot along side FSD.

Sad that Elon Musk decided to refuce the features on cars that don’t have FSD (full self drive) in order to encourage them to start paying for FSD. In order to get his bonus (which could be worth $1 billion) he needs to have 10 million active FSD subscriptions. He currently has around 1.1 million. He’s trying to make drivers subscribe to FSD by taking away autosteer which was free in all Teslas. This may backfire on him and simply drive Tesla owners (or potential ones) to other brands.

Yeah I'm definitely considering getting rid of this car already, unfortunately

What is the diff between autosteer and autopilot? I thought they were 2 sep things.

Auto pilot was what’s called TACC now and auto steer is now auto pilot.

When I test drove mine last weekend it showed TACC, Autosteer, and FSD as available options. The adviser told me that with a paid FSD subscription all three options would be available on mine. I pick it up tomorrow so I guess I'll find out then if what he told me was accurate.

You can thank the California DMV for this. They sued Tesla for deceptive marketing and Tesla’s response was either to make autopilot fully level 3 driver assistance compliant or just stop offering it… they opted to go with the latter being that they had 60 days to comply. Thanks California 👍 it’s not like you haven’t f-ed up enough within your own boarders… we really appreciate your oversight… what a “win for the people”

I don’t have FSD and I still have autosteer and never use it. Why so many posts about autosteer? 😂😂 why do you guys care about it so much?

I doubt it will roll over. They’re allowing rolling over FSD, not auto steer

Or just change the name to adaptive cruise control or something.

Um, it didn't even exist 10 years ago. Tesla's AP stack was first released in early 2017, and obviously was touched all the way up through at least when HW4 released (because otherwise it wouldn't have worked on newer hardware).

I’m fairly certain safety features like LKA still exist, it’s just Autosteer isn’t a thing.

LKA or Lane Keep Assist seems to be the industry standard. A new Nissan Rouge has this feature. Sad sad sad that F ELON removed it.

Why is no technology better than a technology that didn’t require regular updates

Because it did require regular updates and wasn't getting them. It frequently caused problems and those caused confusion between the quality of FSD vs autosteer with FSD being publicly blamed for autosteer's issues. It was a major liability for Tesla both legally and marketing.

Try disabling FSD, & then see if you go back to having one pull of the stalk for TACC & two pulls for TACC + Autosteer (w/o FSD); this works in my 2018 w/FSD. Only disadvantage is then you cannot re-enable FSD when you want it while driving until you come to a complete stop, but a workaround is to create a separate duplicate driver profile that has FSD enabled because you can switch profiles while driving. Stupid & extremely annoying that Tesla won't let us select from all 3 modes, because I want to choose differently depending on the road & situation.

That's an interesting solution there's definitely differences since 2018 but I'm going to try that with my car when I get back to it later today thank you!

You're welcome! I did forget to mention that once you disable FSD (i.e., set "Autopilot Features" to "Autosteer (Beta)"), you might need to go right below that to verify or change the "Autopilot Activation" to be "Double Pull" if it's not already set to that. Then you should be able to do one pull for TACC and two pulls for Autopilot & get Autosteer only.

My car doesn't have the stalk so it wouldn't show something that says single or double pull but I remember seeing it on my old car, I'll be sure to read thoroughly lol

Auto steer should still be there even with FSD. Mine shows TACC,auto steer, and fsd under the autopilot features.

It depends on when the car is made that's not always true, what some people are not aware of is that autopilot isn't offered with every Tesla anymore

Yes it depends when you purchased the car. If your order said autosteer, then you will have autosteer.

Sorry to revive this. But would if I bought a used 2026 y with premium AWD it would have autosteer?  Its 7 k cheaper too.

You'd have to see Autosteer in the autopilot menu otherwise I doubt it, also, where would you find a used 2026 right now anyways?

Exactly, it was a liability for Tesla, this is an anti consumer practice. We, as consumers, should always complain when companies make this kind of moves. If you are a stakeholder on the company, I understand your point of view, since earnings may be more important for you than the actual product, for the rest of us, we have a valid reason to complain.

I don't necessarily disagree but the fact is other manufacturers have better functionality than autosteer as a free included feature on their vehicles today. There's still plenty of consumer choice to buy something other than Tesla. Even for consumers, autosteer was a confusing feature that many dangerously conflated with FSD and more than a few died as a result. That's not just a Tesla liability, it's a consumer safety issue. As a separate issue, we can complain that they badly need to reduce the price of supervised FSD if we're actually close to unsupervised since less than 4 percent of owners are subscribed and of those many only subscribe for months they have trips and then unsubscribe. Killing autosteer which was a dangerous and unsupported feature isn't consumer unfriendly. Having FSD cost 10 cents per mile for an average driver is consumer unfriendly. If FSD supervised was $20 a month, nobody would be complaining about the death of autosteer. Also, I was responding to why it's not available even to someone that paid for FSD. It's defective, outdated, dangerous tech so they removed it in favor of the much more reliable version.

There are a few around me at Lexus and other dealers. Pricing isn't great like 4k difference for low milage. But could be worth it if i get autosteer/autopilot I made a separate post just now. Thanks for the reply.