Update, August 18, 2026: Tesla’s public counter did not stop at seven billion. The company’s FSD (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report later listed more than 13.5 billion FSD miles and about 5.2 billion city miles. Tesery also covered an 8 billion mark and a claim of about a million FSD miles a day. A December 2025 screenshot is a snapshot, not a forever total.
On December 26, 2025, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving page showed the fleet just under 7 billion FSD (Supervised) miles — contemporaneous write-ups said about 6.99 billion. The same day, tester Whole Mars Catalog (@wholemars) posted “almost to 7 billion miles” with a screenshot. The next day he posted that Tesla had crossed 7 billion. Those posts, plus Tesla’s own page, are the sources for the 7 billion headline. The 2.5 billion city miles figure came from the same kind of Tesla/FSD-stats screenshot, not from a separate NHTSA filing.
Those miles are Supervised customer and Tesla-fleet driving with a human still responsible. They are not 7 billion unsupervised Robotaxi miles, and they are not 7 billion crash-free miles. Tesla publishes a running total. It does not publish a matched public crash census for every one of those miles.
Key facts
- When: Late December 2025 (page ~6.99B on the 26th; Whole Mars said 7B on the 27th).
- Who posted the screenshot: @wholemars, pointing at Tesla’s FSD stats / tesla.com/fsd.
- City split then: More than 2.5 billion miles labeled as city, versus the rest highway/other.
- What Tesla calls it: Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
- What it is not: Proof FSD is unsupervised, a Physical Turing Test, or a Waymo-killer scoreboard.
almost to 7 billion miles
— Whole Mars Catalog (@wholemars) December 26, 2025
Open Whole Mars Catalog’s original X post.
What city miles do — and do not — prove
Tesla and FSD testers treat city miles as the harder slice: unprotected lefts, pedestrians, messy intersections. A 2.5 billion city-mile bucket is a large training/exposure number. It does not mean the software is equally good in every city, or legal in every country. Giga Berlin’s factory-loop miles, for example, sit in a different bucket — Tesery’s 93,000 campus-mile story is private roads, not German public FSD.
A single owner trip, like David Moss’s 2,732-mile coast-to-coast log, is one supervised drive. Fleet billions are the sum of many such drives plus everyday commuting. Do not add them as if Moss “proved” the 7 billion, or as if the 7 billion “proves” every owner trip is intervention-free.
Waymo is not the other column on Tesla’s FSD page
Tesla’s counter is camera-based Supervised FSD on customer cars, nearly everywhere Tesla sells the feature. Waymo’s public number, when it publishes one, is usually driverless miles in mapped cities. The December Tesery draft used the SF blackout to say Tesla’s stack “scales” and Waymo’s does not. Tesery already separated those products in the December 20 SF blackout note: a supervised Model Y clip is not an empty Jaguar taxi. Mileage totals do not settle that comparison.
FAQ
Is 7 billion the current number?
No. Check Tesla’s live FSD / safety page. By August 2026 the published total was already well above 10 billion.
Are these unsupervised miles?
Tesla labels the product Supervised. The driver is supposed to stay responsible.
Who audits the odometer?
Tesla does. Outside researchers can quote the page; they cannot independently recount every mile.
For owners: the fleet number rising does not change your duty to watch the road. Your car’s software build is on the screen, not in a 2025 screenshot.
Featured photo: a Tesla Model S at a Supercharger (file photo; not a December 2025 FSD-stats screenshot). Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Related: FSD passes 8 billion miles · About 1 million FSD miles a day · Moss’s 2,732-mile Supervised log · Giga Berlin factory FSD miles
