Finished Teslas Drive Themselves from the Factory Floors in Fremont to the Loading Area

It should not be underestimated how labor-intensive a car factory is. A little-noticed part of the process is the movement of finished vehicles from the factory to a loading zone and onto trucks, wagons or ships. Several thousand people are busy steering the freshly produced cars, moving them from point A to point B, and then immediately rushing back to point A to repeat the task.

This is why the use of Full Self Driving software, such as Tesla FSD, not only benefits the customers, but also the producers themselves. Tesla has now published two videos showing the finished Teslas in the Fremont factory driving autonomously from the end of the conveyor belt to the loading zone, and then waiting there for manually controlled loading onto the car transporters.

Teslas now drive themselves from their birthplace at the factory to their designated loading dock lanes without human intervention

One step closer to large-scale unsupervised FSD pic.twitter.com/Aj6dHsLaRO

— Tesla AI (@Tesla_AI) January 29, 2025

Here’s a video of the entire 1.2-mile (1.92-kilometer) ride through the company’s Fremont area.

Starting with the ~1.2 mile route at the Fremont factory pic.twitter.com/avgSpBxb4j

— Tesla AI (@Tesla_AI) January 29, 2025

Mercedes, BMW or Xiaomi have shown similar approaches. However, BMW uses external sensors to control the vehicles. The BMW vehicles themselves cannot navigate their way around the factory autonomously.

This article was also published in German.