Elon Musk said this weekend that Tesla's Full Self-Driving software will soon be able to automatically steer around potholes, reviving a promise the Tesla and SpaceX CEO first made roughly seven years ago that has yet to materialize.

Musk offered the latest update Sunday night, responding on the social platform X to a user who asked whether FSD would eventually be able to avoid potholes. True to his typically terse style, Musk replied with just two words: "coming soon." The exchange quickly drew attention from Tesla-focused outlets given how long the specific promise has been outstanding.

Potholes remain one of the most persistent and costly road hazards in the United States, capable of damaging tires, wheels and suspension components, and in more severe cases, causing injury to vehicle occupants. Reliable, automated pothole detection and avoidance has proven to be a genuinely difficult engineering problem, requiring a vehicle's software to identify a pothole under varying lighting and road conditions, estimate its depth, location and overall risk level, and then decide in real time whether to slow down, steer around it,........

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