Update, August 19, 2026: v14.2.2 (2025.45.5) was the December 22, 2025 drop. Tesla pushed v14.2.2.1 / 2025.45.6 about a day later, then 14.2.2.x patches and v14.3.x. Tesery’s tester-notes piece is the owner-log story. This page is what Tesla wrote in the car.
On December 22, 2025, Tesla started sending vehicle software 2025.45.5 with Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.2.2. Tracker Ming (@tslaming) logged the rollout that evening. Independent note aggregators (including Tessie’s 2025.45.5 page) copied Tesla’s in-car notes: a higher-resolution vision encoder, and Arrival Options — parking lot, street, driveway, parking garage, or curbside — with the navigation pin moving to match.
That is a Supervised point release on HW4 Model S/3/X/Y/Cybertruck in the notes Tessie listed. It is not unsupervised Robotaxi software, and it is not a new neural net Tesla published as a paper. “Major vision and navigation upgrades” in the old Tesery headline is Tesla’s own marketing-sized phrasing of two bullet points.
Key facts
- Firmware / FSD: 2025.45.5 / v14.2.2, rolling out December 22, 2025.
- Vision encoder: Tesla said higher-resolution features for emergency vehicles, road obstacles, and human gestures. That is a release-note claim, not a measured detection-rate table.
- Arrival Options: Owner-selectable drop-off type; pin/route can change. Tessie marked the UI as HW4. Tesla called the drop-offs “Robotaxi-style.”
- Next calendar day: v14.2.2.1 (2025.45.6), a polish pass testers tied to rain and parking.
- What it is not: A legal unsupervised mode, or HW3 getting the same feature set.
GOOD NEWS $TSLA FSD V14.2.2 ROLLING OUT NOW. This point release is to polish what have been available in 14.2, but also includes: Navigation pin will be updated based on the selected arrival option. V14.2.2 (2025.45.5) — Dec.22, 2025.
— Ming (@tslaming) December 22, 2025
What the notes actually added
Arrival Options is the owner-facing change. You tell the car whether this destination is a lot, a curb, a garage, a driveway, or street parking. Tesla said the destination pin then moves. That is useful for a future ride-hail drop-off. On a Supervised owner car it is still you watching the last fifty feet. Do not read “Robotaxi-style” in the note as Tesla turning your Model Y into an unsupervised taxi.
The vision-encoder line is perception. Emergency lights, debris, and a hand wave are the examples Tesla named. Testers the same week talked more about lane-change commit than about gesture recognition. Believe the note as Tesla’s intent; believe testers as one night’s driving. Tesery’s v14.2.2 tester roundup is that log. Later v14.2.2.5 mixed deer/school-zone praise with turn-signal quirks — the series did not freeze at 14.2.2.
FAQ
Is v14.2.2 the same as v14.2.2.1?
No. .1 is the next day’s 2025.45.6 polish. Check Software on the car.
Did Tesla publish a full changelog beyond those bullets?
The public notes testers copied are short. Speed profiles and other v14.2 items were already in the 14.2 cycle; don’t dump every v14.2 bullet into 14.2.2 unless the car lists it.
HW3?
Tessie’s arrival-options block was HW4. Don’t assume HW3 got the same UI.
For owners: install only what Tesla offers your VIN. Arrival Options will not appear on every older computer.
Featured photo: Tesla center touchscreen (file photo, December 2020), where FSD updates such as v14.2.2 install. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Related: Testers on v14.2.2 lane changes · v14.2.2.1 the next day · v14.2.2.5 later · Xpeng CEO on v14.2
