Tesla Just Confirmed Max Speed Control Is Not Coming Back to FSD

If you have been waiting for Tesla to bring back the ability to manually set a speed limit while FSD is active, here is your answer. It is not coming back.

Tesla's AI chief Ashok Elluswamy made that clear this week in a post on X, responding to a prominent FSD tester who said he hoped the feature would never return. Elluswamy agreed and kept it short:

"Max speed control is an anti pattern. We are working on better learning of user's implied preferences."

So what does that actually mean for you as a driver?

Instead of letting you set a speed ceiling yourself, Tesla wants FSD to figure out how fast you like to go by watching how you drive. Every time you tap the accelerator because FSD is going too slowly, it remembers that. Every time you ease off because it feels too fast, it remembers that too. Over enough trips, the system builds a personal picture of your driving style and adjusts to match it without you having to do anything.

Elon Musk said something similar back in July, confirming that an upcoming FSD release would remember driver interventions and match each person's individual preferences, covering not just speed but lane choices, parking preferences, and more. Elluswamy's comment this week confirms that smarter speed selection is part of that same vision.

For now, the manual Max Speed setting has been replaced by a set of Speed Profiles: Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry, and Mad Max. The scroll wheel on your steering wheel steps through these profiles instead of adjusting a precise speed offset. FSD then picks the actual speed based on your chosen profile, the posted speed limit, and the flow of surrounding traffic. It is less precise than what owners had before, and plenty of people in the Tesla community have said so. Some drivers report that Standard mode has driven above posted limits on certain roads, and without a manual override, there is not much they can do about it in the moment.

There is also a broader reason Tesla made this call. Sweden recently pushed European regulators to block a wider FSD rollout unless Tesla removed behavior that allows the car to travel above posted speed limits. France raised the same concern. Dropping the manual speed offset takes that specific issue off the table and gives Tesla a cleaner story to tell regulators across the EU.

The smarter learning system does not have a release date yet, but there are early signs of where it is heading. Tesla's Robotaxi vehicles are already running early builds of FSD version 15, which has roughly ten times as many neural network parameters as the current version. That extra capability is what will eventually make truly personalized speed learning work reliably. What the Robotaxi fleet is testing today is likely a preview of what your personal Tesla will be able to do in the not too distant future.

For now, the Speed Profiles are the middle ground between the old system and what is coming next. It is a transition period, and it is not perfect. But if Tesla can deliver on the promise of FSD that genuinely learns how you drive, the end result will be more useful than a manual dial ever was.

Source: DriveTesla