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The car gave me a strikeout warning, and it had a point

From the Driver’s Seat · Jul 20, 2026 · v14.3.5
Tesla touchscreen showing a Self-Driving Features Warning about improper use of Full Self-Driving, warning that the features stop working after four more strikeouts.
The message I got in the Missouri bootheel on the way home.

Somewhere in the Missouri bootheel on the way home this came up on the screen. Telemetry from your vehicle indicates improper use of Full Self-Driving. Four more of those and it quits working for me. My first reaction, I’ll admit, was to argue with it. I’d been driving since early, I was tired, I had 17% left and a charger I needed to get to. Then about a mile down the road my second reaction was that it was right. That’s the honest version of it. The thing is watching whether I’m actually supervising, and on the back half of a long day home I was not supervising as well as I do on hour one. Nobody is. I’d rather it nag me than not, I guess, even if it stung a little at the time. I’m writing this one down because it would be the easiest thing in the world to leave out, and leaving it out would make this whole log worth a lot less than it ought to be.

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