Son of Indy 500 legend Gary Bettenhausen. 60K+ miles in my Model Y, 98.7% on FSD. Medical device designer and Project Manager. Tesla & SpaceX fan. #FSDSaves
Indianapolis, IN
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62,775 miles on my Model Y. Of the 48,454 Tesla has tracked, 47,855 were on FSD — that's 98.7%.
Road trips, city streets, and everything in between. Over a year. Zero scary moments.
I'm not an influencer. I'm a regular Hoosier who drives the wheels off my car, and I trust it to drive me and my family every day.
My dad drove in the Indy 500 21 times. I come from a family that knows driving. And I let my Tesla do the driving.
FSD changed my life. I'll never drive anything but a Tesla again.
FSDeniers, the receipts are attached. #FSDSaves
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I just smile to myself when some egomaniac, usually in a big pickup truck, thinks he won in traffic. I just let him go knowing that he’s driving and I’m not.
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FSD made my drive back from lunch less demanding today. I still supervised, but I joined an audio-only Teams meeting I otherwise would’ve missed (or had to skip lunch to attend). That’s half an hour back in my day courtesy of Tesla FSD. Not a flashy demo—just something that made my day better. #FSDSaves
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Nearly 700 miles on FSD with zero disengagements on this trip. Today, my receipts show 47,952 FSD miles out of 48,551 tracked—98.7%, with a 161-day streak. This wasn’t a one-off. It’s how I drive. #FSDSaves
I drove straight through yesterday from Myrtle Beach back to Indy. This included a nearly 700 mile stretch using FSD with zero disengagements.
There’s absolutely no way I could’ve ever done this in a car without FSD. I used to get fatigued after a few hours, most likely because I have to work a little harder at driving than others with vision in only one eye.
None of the charging stops took longer than it took a family of four to use the restroom, stretch our legs, or grab food or drinks.
The car now has over 47,000 miles on it with 98.4% of those miles being driven on FSD 14.2 or later. That’s all but about 500 of the last 33,000 miles being driven on FSD.
Say anything you want about Tesla. Cherry pick any news item from any pro-Tesla or anti-Tesla source you want to cite. I’ll take you seriously when you come at me with the experience I have and can draw your own conclusions based on that experience.
FSD changes the game. #fsdsaves
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Cary Bettenhausen retweeted
1/3 Tesla Community 25
Thursday, Nov 5, 2026
@MarianFry1939: Marian is 87. Her husband can no longer drive after a stroke, so she now does all the driving, and the couple picked a used 2023 Model Y to make that easier. She calls it the dream car of their lifetime.
@DanielSgeiger: Daniel, who calls himself the Deaf Tesla Guy, had a Camry drift right up beside him on the highway this morning. FSD held the center of his lane and handled it on its own.
@theLITDJNIV: Nic, who has a disability and cannot drive, loved Tesla's Accessibility Day and is asking for the new driverless cars to let power chair users roll in, lock in place and ride on their own.
@HarroBaines: A blind Houston dad of four and Longhorns fan asks the question many blind people share: if a Tesla can drive itself, why can he not own one and ride in it?
@cbhausen: Cary, son of Indy 500 legend Gary Bettenhausen, has 62,775 miles on his Model Y, and 98.7 percent of the tracked miles were on FSD with zero scary moments.
@TeslaCarey: Carey owned Teslas for 7 years and 4 cars before her mom finally ordered one of her own. Her mom wants FSD, and the family is now waiting on delivery.
@tyelon719: A soccer mom whose Tesla drives her boys to practice says FSD saved her family from a bad accident this week.
@TheRealBagi: Josh, an Ohio Cybertruck owner, got a call from his wife saying FSD was braking and swerving for no reason. As she drove on, she spotted several deer it had been avoiding.
@OmarOuqfi: Omar shares FSD clips from Quebec and showed that v14 on HW4 with good winter tires handles snow and even countersteers, answering claims that it cannot drive in winter.
Picture: a Quicksilver Tesla Model Y First Edition at golden hour, photo by Damian B Oh, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: Owner posts on X, Wikimedia Commons.
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@JCChristopher — we both walked away from Uber. Here's what 98.7% FSD over ~48K tracked miles looks like when you're just a regular guy trusting Tesla FSD every day with his family. @TeslaSI #FSDSaves
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Tesla FSD calmly slows 26mph to avoid a freeway collision on my way to work this morning. No road rage, no emotion.
@RealDanODowd This defective human software should be banned immediately!
Great job, @TeslaSI
Again and again, #FSDSaves
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Tesla was the meat in Kia / Nissan Sandwich…
Driver of black Kia SUV veered into my lane… FSD calmly makes room without overreacting. Driver of orange Nissan pickup reacts angrily when he should be thanking me (and Tesla) for preventing a crash.
#FSDSaves… Again and again.
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FSD Saves… Again. Prevented a fender/bender when driver of the white car moved to left turn lane then changed their mind as I was moving into the lane they just vacated.
Having FSD is like having a car with Ninja reflexes.
#FSDSaves
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I drove straight through yesterday from Myrtle Beach back to Indy. This included a nearly 700 mile stretch using FSD with zero disengagements.
There’s absolutely no way I could’ve ever done this in a car without FSD. I used to get fatigued after a few hours, most likely because I have to work a little harder at driving than others with vision in only one eye.
None of the charging stops took longer than it took a family of four to use the restroom, stretch our legs, or grab food or drinks.
The car now has over 47,000 miles on it with 98.4% of those miles being driven on FSD 14.2 or later. That’s all but about 500 of the last 33,000 miles being driven on FSD.
Say anything you want about Tesla. Cherry pick any news item from any pro-Tesla or anti-Tesla source you want to cite. I’ll take you seriously when you come at me with the experience I have and can draw your own conclusions based on that experience.
FSD changes the game. #fsdsaves
Cary Bettenhausen retweeted
FSD 14.2 JUST AVOIDED HITTING DEER ON A DARK BACKROAD
THAT WAS THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING I’VE EVER SEEN
Cary Bettenhausen retweeted
2026 Tesla model Y using Tesla Self Driving makes a nice save.
Apparently, the opposing driver was an elderly woman who desperately needs Tesla self driving.
Thx to- ‘The Warranty Inspector’ on IG
EV: @SawyerMerritt @DirtyTesLa @WholeMarsBlog @JoeTegtmeyer @BLKMDL3 @Teslaconomics @jeremyjudkins_ @cybertruck @TroyTeslike @TesLatino
FSD Saves…
Time
Animals
Accidents
Mobility
Stress
Sanity
Lives
Bury critics like @RealDanODowd with
#fsdsaves
When posting FSD videos!