Can FSD park itself?
Parking lots are unmapped, unmarked, and full of pedestrians — the place FSD behaves least like it does on the road.
Coverage by software era
How much footage exists for this scenario in each build. Eras with fewer than 3 matching videos are marked — they are anecdotes, not evidence of a trend.
| Version | Moments | Failures | Highlights | Videos | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v14 Lite | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 / 1 | thin sample |
| v8 | 40 | 28 | 12 | 8 / 12 | |
| v9 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 6 / 11 | |
| v10 | 52 | 24 | 28 | 28 / 55 | |
| v10.69 | 50 | 22 | 28 | 15 / 38 | |
| v11.3 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 8 / 15 | |
| v11.4 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 15 / 35 | |
| v12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 / 5 | |
| v12.3 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 6 / 10 | |
| v12.4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 / 7 | |
| v12.5 | 31 | 16 | 15 | 14 / 24 | |
| v13.2 | 77 | 19 | 58 | 18 / 27 | |
| v14 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 / 5 | thin sample |
| v14.1 | 70 | 16 | 54 | 12 / 14 | |
| v14.2 | 78 | 21 | 57 | 13 / 13 | |
| v14.3 | 133 | 30 | 103 | 22 / 22 |
Watch it happen
Worst first, newest builds first within each severity. Every card opens YouTube at the moment.

Hard last-second braking/steering into what appears to be an apartment complex private parking area that is not open.

Quick FSD comparison also fails to see or go around the spray-paint can, which the creator calls really concerning for unattended Smart Summon.

Using Go to Target, Smart Summon drives over and smashes a spray-paint can/garbage left as an obstacle-avoidance test.

In a one-way parking lot FSD went the wrong direction, could not see a snow-covered curb, drove over it, and Chris hit Report then took over in what he called a safety disengagement.

Looking back, Chris says FSD ignored the navigation five separate times to take him on the highway rather than move to a different part of the mall parking lot; he concludes navigation is not fixed.

FSD badly messed up navigation, appeared to set up a U-turn, fully ignored the route, and got onto the highway, forcing a full reroute and ending the video because highway speeds ruin the roof cam.

Autopark aborts without a brake press; 'Vehicle hold feature unavailable' appears, Hold is broken, and they need a scroll-wheel reset and profile switch to recover.

Chris discusses an X post/video about a minor FSD Beta 12 parking-lot mishap in which Joey, after otherwise flawless V12 driving, collided with the left rear of a parked car while turning at low speed looking for a spot, with no injuries; cabin proof FSD was enabled is lacking.

FSD did not stop at a parking-lot stop sign; Chris reported it and noted campus stop signs can matter even if many lot signs are weak legally.

Car made a hard turn with no turn signal through a parking lot and onto what he thought was the sidewalk, then into the road and stopped.

After entering the dark underground area, the car drives too fast and plans to keep going straight into a wall instead of turning right.

A shiny metal wrench on the edge of the driveway is run over on a final go-to-target because the car cannot see it; creator stops summon after it keeps moving briefly after release.

In a cone test, FSD 14 Lite kept reversing toward the cone while a HW4 vehicle in the same scenario refused to budge.

A second FSD attempt aims the front tire straight at the small object; creator notes it is not straddling/ intelligently going over and says they found limits of both Smart Summon and FSD.

FSD without navigation is engaged; despite the object being visible on front cameras and slightly flattened already, FSD drives right over it, surprising the creator who recalls older FSD (e.g. 14.2) being overly sensitive to road deviations.

Driver disengages because FSD is stuck in reverse parking and nav/camera cannot be edited, then files a report.

On latest version 14 FSD Hardware 4, his car starts backing into a parking spot then throws red hands and demands takeover because a few drops of water on the camera reduce confidence.

While trying to park at a restaurant lot, FSD heads toward a sidewalk and he has to hit the brake.

Took over at the destination as the Cybertruck stopped with a right turn signal, intending to park, which is still not a fully supported release-notes feature.

FSD braked hard behind a car and tried to park while blocking someone’s driveway; he disengaged because parking support is not in this release and it was not an appropriate place to stop.

Chris disengaged at about mile three after FSD tried to pass a car that was waiting for someone to park ahead; he debated whether the disengagement was necessary and planned a viewer poll.

He disengages because the car was about to enter a do-not-enter drive-thru the wrong way.

After swinging too wide in the parking-lot turnaround, the car lacked room past a curb, could not reverse, and the driver had to put it in reverse and disengage.

Pin was in a parking lot on the left but the car accelerated past; he intervened and counted another disengagement.

Car did not understand the destination as a parking lot, so he parked manually and ended the drive.

Entering a parking lot the tire went over the curb, then the car pulled into a parking spot (first time Chris had seen that); he manually turned around because beta cannot reverse.

FSD pulled into a parking lot (driver says that was his bad destination), got stuck with no reverse ability yet, so he manually turned the car around and re-engaged.

Hard steering-wheel movements while routing to the front door; Chris disengaged on the wheel, then said it probably was not even that close.

Explicit disengagement when left is blocked, a guy is reversing, and the area is all blocked off; driver turns around and later lets the car go straight.

In a parking lot after the forced left, Chris hits the brake because the car did not brake early enough for his comfort and would not fit through the path occupancy network showed.

Chris took over when the car tried to enter a parking lot because that was the set destination, triggering an Autopilot disengage message.

After the parking-lot dead end, Chris disengaged to restart; he said he did not really want to count it because he had switched up navigation and confused the car.

On an unprotected left into a parking lot someone stopped/waved him on; he briefly pushed then took over because a second lane still had traffic and he would not trust the wave-through.

At the exit it was too slow so he pushed the accelerator, then fully disengaged because people were coming and he did not want to block them.

Driver summarized two disengagements over 16 miles: one moving toward a person and a second in an apartment complex/parking-lot area.

Took over in a parking lot near the end (gas truck/exhaust chaos); creator does not really count parking-lot disengagements but acknowledges the takeover.

The car starts to drive then effectively quits and requires him to take over; he re-enables FSD for the exit.

Despite attempts (including turn signal/wheel input), the car will not make the right turn and keeps aiming for the wall; he intervenes to complete the turn.

Exiting a parking lot across fast multi-lane traffic to make a left, behavior got bad/goofy and it was going to miss the left, so he took over.

Took over to force a Michigan left to test the maneuver.

Took over briefly to go straight instead of the direction FSD wanted (not counted by him as a stats disengagement).

Without a front bumper camera, the car parked a huge spot but got extremely close to the curb.

While parking, the car got extremely close to a cop car before continuing, with Chris reacting that it nearly hit it.

He took over so he could demonstrate parallel parking after viewers requested it.

At HopCat the car tried an odd parking-like stop; driver touched the accelerator to get it going while others honked.

In a busy parking lot the car kept circulating rather than parking; the driver put hands on the wheel and took over.

Creator took over to prevent re-entering the highway after awkward parking-lot exit creeping, letting the car finish exiting first.

At an impossible closed-road destination it parked in a no-parking tow-away zone, prompting a quick takeover.