Forget rideshare. How seniors are using Tesla FSD for transportation. Oakland County ― Tesla is expanding its Robotaxi rideshare service to include Florida, Texas, and California as it competes with Alphabet’s Waymo, Amazon’s Zoox, and other autonomous rideshare services. But consumers are already buying retail Teslas to self-drive them in cities across the US. Senior citizens most notably. Determined to maintain their individual transportation independence, they are using Tesla’s hands-free Full Self Driving system as a driver assist. Though by no means exclusive to seniors in its ability to add another set of eyes to the road, FSD helps elderly drivers maintain a cocoon around their car as their confidence in reflexes and eyesight naturally deteriorate. “It's as good a driver as I am,” said Dick Amacher, 78, a retired General Motors engineer from Rochester Hills who drives his Model Y and Model 3 on FSD 98% of the time. “Here's the thing, it will not go through a red light. It will not go through a stop sign. Every once in a while, I've driven through neighborhoods where stop signs were partially obscured by low hanging branches, for example. . . and (the Tesla) sees them before I do.” Alphabet founder Sergei Brin launched Google’s autonomous car program (now called Waymo) in 2014 with the idea of giving seniors independence. Now, as Waymo and Tesla duke it out in a high-capital-cost, high-stakes race to dominate the ride-share space, that sci-fi vision ― shared by Tesla CEO Elon Musk ― is fast becoming reality with Tesla’s version 14.3 FSD software. FSD has made enormous strides in the last two years thanks to millions of miles of real-world customer use and Artificial Intelligence advancement. “Tesla self-driving enables safer mobility for senior citizens,” posted Musk on X July 11 in response to