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Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)

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Now, if you want your new Tesla to steer itself—while you pay attention to the road—you will have to pay for FSD. Until the middle of February, that can be done for a one-time fee of $8,000. But starting on February 14, that option goes away, too, and the sole choice will be a $99/month FSD subscription. But probably not for very long. Last night, Musk revealed on his social media platform that “the $99/month for supervised FSD will rise as FSD’s capabilities improve.

I don't own a Tesla, but a $99 monthly subscription feels like quite a hefty price tag.

According to a Reuters report on this topic, this change affects only Canada and the US.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, my wife’s new Hyundai came with it. I still have to keep my hands on the steering wheel but it is actually nice to have. I don’t use it in heavy traffic but if traffic is light on a highway it is actually kind of helpful on long road trips reducing some of the mental fatigue. Chevrolet offers hands-off on many of their vehicles now and I think it’s about a $3,000 upgrade. It sounded like a lot until Tesla said $8,000 for theirs, and Tesla’s is dumb enough to drive through a wall painted to look like the road, like a Roadrunner cartoon.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

You know what I think is the worst about the Tesla autopilot idiocy? Many of the newer Teslas have updated hardware... with built in radar... that they just don't use. At all.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My 2018 Civic has a great lane centering system. It's bog standard at this point.