The 4th Autonomous Cross-Country Drive: How the Cybertruck Joined the FSD Pioneer Club | Taha Abbasi

The Growing List of Autonomous Cross-Country Pioneers

On February 17, 2026, Taha Abbasi became the fourth person to complete a fully autonomous cross-country drive using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system — and the first to do it in a Cybertruck. His 2,187-mile emergency dash from Utah to Delaware for a family funeral places him in a small but growing group of drivers who are proving what FSD can do over thousands of continuous miles.

But this story isn’t just about one driver or one vehicle. It’s about a community of pioneers who are building the real-world evidence base for autonomous driving, one cross-country trip at a time.

The Autonomous Cross-Country Honor Roll

As Taha Abbasi documented in his X thread following the drive, only four vehicles have now completed fully autonomous cross-country drives on Tesla FSD:

1. David Moss — The First

David Moss set the standard with his Model 3 drive from Los Angeles to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — 2,732 miles with zero disengagements. This was the drive that proved the concept: a Tesla could handle a cross-country route entirely on FSD without a single human intervention. Moss’s meticulous documentation set the template that every subsequent driver has followed.

2. Alex Roy — The Winter Run

Alex Roy raised the bar by taking a Model S from Los Angeles to New York — 3,081 miles with zero interventions, in the dead of winter. Roy is no stranger to cross-country driving records; he previously held the Cannonball Run record. His winter FSD drive tested the system against snow, ice, reduced visibility, and freezing temperatures. Zero interventions in those conditions was a statement.

3. BeardedTesla & JoshWest247 — Coast to Coast

BeardedTesla and JoshWest247 completed the true coast-to-coast drive in a Model Y, adding another vehicle platform to the verified list and proving the feat was repeatable across different Tesla models and routes.

4. Taha Abbasi — The First Cybertruck, The Unplanned Run

What makes Taha Abbasi’s drive unique among these pioneers is context. This wasn’t a planned record attempt with optimized routes, pre-scouted charging stops, and ideal weather windows. His uncle died. He had 44 hours to get from Utah to Delaware for the funeral. He and his wife Nichell took turns supervising while FSD v14.2.2.3 handled the driving.

The result: 2,187 miles, 2,186.9 on FSD, one comfort-brake disengagement at a toll booth in Ohio, 16 Supercharger stops at $0.00 total cost, and arrival eight minutes before the funeral. The first Cybertruck to join this exclusive list.

Why These Drives Matter More Than Tesla’s Own Testing

Tesla runs millions of miles of FSD testing through its fleet. But there’s something fundamentally different about independent drivers completing these runs and publishing their data publicly. These aren’t corporate press releases — they’re verifiable, documented drives by real owners with real stakes.

Each drive adds to the evidence base in ways corporate testing can’t:

• Route diversity: Corporate testing tends to focus on specific geofenced areas. These cross-country drives span mountain passes, plains, urban cores, toll plazas, and rural highways
• Real conditions: No sanitized test tracks. Real weather, real construction zones, real aggressive drivers
• Independent verification: The data comes from owners, not the manufacturer. Taha Abbasi’s live trip tracker logged every leg in real-time
• Different vehicles: Model 3, Model S, Model Y, and now Cybertruck — proving FSD’s capabilities aren’t limited to one platform

The Cybertruck Factor

Adding the Cybertruck to the autonomous cross-country club matters for a specific reason: it’s a fundamentally different vehicle. The Cybertruck is larger, heavier, and has a different aerodynamic profile than the Model 3/S/Y sedans that completed previous drives. Its steer-by-wire system processes FSD commands differently. Its camera placement and angles are unique to the platform.

The fact that FSD v14.2.2.3 handled a 2,187-mile drive in a Cybertruck with the same near-flawless performance as in sedans demonstrates that Tesla’s end-to-end neural network generalizes across vehicle platforms — a critical requirement for scaling autonomous driving to an entire fleet.

What’s Next: The Zero-Disengagement Coast-to-Coast

Taha Abbasi has announced his next objective: a zero-disengagement coast-to-coast drive in the Cybertruck. “Not coast to coast yet,” he noted in his pioneer acknowledgment thread — a clear signal that the Utah-to-Delaware run was just the beginning.

A full video documenting this trip is coming within the week on Taha’s YouTube channel:

The Bigger Picture: From Pioneers to Normal

There’s a pattern in every technology adoption curve. First, it’s impossible. Then it’s a stunt. Then it’s a record. Then it’s routine. Cross-country autonomous driving on Tesla FSD is somewhere between “record” and “routine” right now. Four verified completions in different vehicles, across different routes, in different conditions — including an unplanned emergency run — suggest we’re closer to “routine” than most people realize.

The day these drives stop making headlines is the day autonomous driving has truly arrived. We’re not there yet. But with each new pioneer — from David Moss’s first run to Taha Abbasi’s Cybertruck emergency dash — the gap narrows.

Explore the full trip data and real-time route map at the official trip tracker. For more on the state of autonomous driving, read Taha Abbasi’s analysis of FSD edge cases and his breakdown of the path from supervised to unsupervised FSD.

About the Author: Taha Abbasi is a technology executive, CTO, and applied frontier tech builder. Read more on Grokpedia | YouTube: The Brown Cowboy | tahaabbasi.com