Tesla FSD Conquers Finnish Winter: -19°C Real-World Testing Results | Taha Abbasi

Tesla FSD Handles -19°C Finnish Winter Like a Pro When we talk about autonomous driving technology, it’s easy to get caught up in the controlled environments of Silicon Valley test tracks. But what happens when you throw Full Self-Driving into the chaos of a Finnish winter? Taha Abbasi has been following the real-world testing that …

Tesla FSD Conquers Finland Winter Test at -19°C: The Ultimate Autonomy Stress Test | Taha Abbasi

Taha Abbasi has long maintained that the true test of autonomous driving technology isn’t on sunny California highways—it’s in the harshest conditions our planet can throw at a vehicle. And a recent test in Oulu, Finland at -19°C (-2°F) just proved this thesis spectacularly. The Ultimate Stress Test: Arctic Circle Autonomy When most autonomous vehicle …

Waymo vs Tesla: Why Tesla’s Approach to Autonomous Driving Will Win | Taha Abbasi

Taha Abbasi compares two fundamentally different approaches to autonomous driving—Waymo’s sensor-heavy strategy versus Tesla’s vision-only bet—and explains why Tesla’s approach is positioned to win. Two Philosophies, One Goal Waymo and Tesla both want to solve autonomous driving, but they’ve taken radically different paths to get there. Understanding these differences reveals why one approach scales and …

Why Lab Tests Miss What Real-World Testing Catches: An Engineer’s Methodology | Taha Abbasi

The Gap Between Specification and Reality Every vehicle has two versions: the one that exists in controlled laboratory conditions, and the one that exists in your driveway. They’re rarely the same vehicle. As an engineer who specializes in real-world testing, I’ve built my methodology around this gap. Here’s why lab tests miss what matters—and how …

Tesla FSD V14 Bike Rack Test: Does It Actually Work? | Taha Abbasi

The V13 Nightmare: Why I Stopped Using FSD with a Bike Rack When my wife Nichell and I got our mountain bikes this summer, we quickly discovered a problem. The moment we loaded them onto our hitch-mounted bike rack and engaged FSD, the Cybertruck drove “like a bat out of hell.” It almost ran into …

Tesla FSD Profiles Explained: Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry & Mad Max — Which One Should You Use? | Taha Abbasi

By Taha Abbasi Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised offers five distinct driving profiles: Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry, and Mad Max. Each shapes how aggressively your Tesla navigates traffic, changes lanes, and manages speed. After months of daily driving with FSD across versions 12, 13, and now 14, I’m sharing my real-world experience to help you …

1800 Miles in a Cybertruck: Real Range, Charging, and What Tesla Won’t Tell You | Taha Abbasi

What Nobody Tells You About Long-Distance Cybertruck Ownership 1,800 miles. Four states. One Cybertruck named Kimosabi. And a question we needed answered: Could Tesla’s Full Self-Driving actually take us on a family road trip? This was our first road trip with an EV—a journey from Utah to Washington and back, with an overnight stop in …

We Couldn’t Survive on EVs Before Cybertruck | Taha Abbasi

We Weren’t Looking for an EV When Nichell and I moved to Utah, an electric vehicle was nowhere on our radar. We were deep in the off-road and overlanding world—I was building up a 1994 Land Cruiser, a passion project inspired by my father who passed away in 2018 after battling cancer for five years. …

Why Real-World Testing Matters: The Gap Between Lab Results and Road Reality

The automotive industry loves controlled environments. Test tracks with perfect asphalt. Climate chambers set to precise temperatures. Simulation software running millions of virtual miles. But here’s what decades of engineering experience has taught me: the real world doesn’t care about your lab conditions. As someone who has spent years building and testing frontier technology—from software …