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A critical aspect of the discourse touched on the timeline for Tesla’s full deployment of Fully Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities. Joe Bactis, another community voice, highlighted the importance of certainty—believing that by Q2 2026, Tesla might have achieved regulatory approval for widespread, unsupervised robo-taxi operations in at least two US states. This timeline significantly influences Tesla’s manufacturing strategies: if Tesla believes deployment is imminent, it can focus resources on scaling autonomy hardware; if not, it might need to develop more affordable, traditional vehicles as fallback options.