Prediction record

Misstech

Tesla will complete Full Self-Driving (with safety level significantly greater than a human) by the end of 2022.

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Scored record

Misstech

My personal guess is that we'll achieve Full Self-Driving this year, yes, with safety level significantly greater than present.

Tesla will complete Full Self-Driving (with safety level significantly greater than a human) by the end of 2022.

Made on
2022-01-26
Outcome
Miss
Importance
3 / 5
Contribution
+0.46

Criterion

Resolution status
resolved
Resolved on
2022-12-31

TRUE if by 2022-12-31 Tesla had COMPLETED Full Self-Driving at a safety level significantly greater than its then-present (2021) level — Musk's own 'significantly greater than present' standard on the Q4 2021 call; otherwise FALSE.

Re-aligned to the sacred verbatim's 'significantly greater than present' standard (a lower/fairer bar than 'than a human'). FALSE: Tesla's FSD remained SAE Level 2 'Supervised' beta through 2022-12-31 per Tesla's own product classification; the November 2022 wide release was still driver-supervised, not completed autonomy above the prior safety level. No credible source claims Tesla completed greater-than-present autonomous safety by end of 2022. Original FALSE rationale retained; criterion realignment logged in verification.corrections and human_review.

Sources

  • Elon Musk confident Tesla Full Self-Driving will be finished by end of 2022

    Teslarati ·

    Source

  • Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Q4 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

    Seeking Alpha ·

    Source

Outcome evidence

  • At end of 2022 Tesla's FSD remained an SAE Level 2 driver-assist system (FSD Beta), requiring an attentive driver ready to take control at all times; responsibility stayed with the driver, not the system. It was never certified/operating at a safety level significantly greater than a human, and the November 2022 wide release was still supervised beta, not autonomy.

    Evidence

  • Wikipedia's dedicated list of Musk's autonomous-Tesla predictions records the end-of-2022 'self-driving safer than a human / wide release' goal as unmet: FSD Beta got wide release Nov 2022 but stayed SAE Level 2 (supervised), never reaching the reliability-in-excess-of-human-drivers Musk promised.

    Evidence

  • Contemporary Nov 2022 reporting: FSD Beta expanded to all North American owners regardless of safety score, but this was explicitly not Level 5 autonomy and still required constant driver supervision.

    Evidence

Corrections

  • horizon type: 'this year' maps to Dec 31 of utterance year via the deadline table; deadline 2022-12-31 unchanged.
  • Resolution criterion: Human-review realignment: match the resolution criterion to the sacred verbatim's actual standard ('than present', a lower/fairer bar than the 'than a human' wording in claim_canonical). Outcome unchanged — FSD remained SAE L2 Supervised through end-2022, FALSE under either bar.

Score contribution

+0.46
Confidence
65%
Outcome
Miss
Importance
3 / 5
Contribution
+0.46

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Provenance

Tesla will complete Full Self-Driving (with safety level si…
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Last computed
July 7, 2026
Made on
2022-01-26

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