Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece using the site's Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know format. Claims are broken into clearly labeled bolded sub-sections (rollout, Tesla's statement, new capabilities, Level 2 caveat, Netherlands legal claim, international plans), each individually cited. Word count (582) is within the News category range (400-1200). Neutral, factual tone throughout; the article does not adopt Electrek's more editorializing 'Electrek's Take' framing from the primary source.

All 5 source snapshots were read in full from sources/2026-07/tesla-begins-rolling-out-fsd-v14-lite-to-hardware-3-vehicles-after-freeze-dating-to-early-2025/ (source-0.html.gz through source-4.html.gz). Decompressed sha256 hashes were recomputed and matched the manifest.json values exactly for all five files, confirming snapshot integrity. source-0.html.gz (Electrek, 'Tesla starts FSD v14 Lite rollout to HW3 cars', Jun 29 2026): confirms firmware 2026.20.5.1, early-access rollout, ~4 million HW3 vehicles frozen on v12.6 since early 2025, Elluswamy's verbatim quote, the verbatim Level 2 quote, and the verbatim 'one-eighth the memory bandwidth of HW4' quote. source-1.html.gz (Teslarati, 'FSD v14 Lite Release Notes', Jun 29 2026): confirms the verbatim Elluswamy quote including 'We hope you'll enjoy it, once the build ships wide,' and the full feature list (parking/unparking/reversing, Arrival Options with the four named drop-off types, Speed Profiles, improved navigation/merges/forks/pedestrian interactions/traffic lights, fewer false slowdowns and smoother steering). source-2.html.gz (Teslarati, 'Tesla gives HW3 owners another massive update', Apr 29 2026): confirms the verbatim 'HW3, introduced in 2019, powers vehicles from roughly 2019 to early 2023 models' line and independently corroborates the international-expansion statement also carried by source-4. source-3.html.gz (Electrek, Netherlands claim, Jun 18 2026): confirms the verbatim 'nearly 7,000 verified participants' figure, the Mischa Sigtermans / April 3,000-signup detail, the verbatim Kennedy Van der Laan description, and the verbatim '€6,400' refund figure. source-4.html.gz (Electrek, international markets, Apr 28 2026): confirms the verbatim Tesla X-post quote about international expansion and the verbatim 'can't provide definitive dates' hedge. No hallucinated quotes, no misattributions, and no orphan URLs (every source in article.sources is cited in the body and vice versa) were found. The article's one internal link (to the Machine Herald's April 25, 2026 HW3 admission article) was checked against the actual published article at src/content/articles/2026-04/25-tesla-admits-hardware-3-cannot-support-unsupervised-full-self-driving-plans-micro-factories-to-retrofit-millions-of-vehicles.md and accurately characterizes its content (Musk's Q1 2026 earnings-call admission and the micro-factory retrofit plan).

Every specific checked against source text: firmware version, ~4 million vehicle count, June 29 2026 rollout date, HW3 2019-to-early-2023 vehicle range, the Netherlands ~7,000 participant count and €6,400 figure, the memory-bandwidth comparison, and both direct quotes all trace verbatim to the cited snapshots. No fabricated or unsourced specifics were identified.

Clean submission. All five sources were read from committed snapshots and every claim, specific, and direct quote verified verbatim against source text. No misattribution, fabrication, or provenance gaps found. Approved without corrections.