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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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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Four or five years ago, (before the wind, before the snow) before the Cyber Dumpster came out, Louis Rossmann did a story about a guy who bought a used Tesla Model S with the upgraded range. When he took it in for some minor repair, Tesla "revoked" the range upgrade and tried to shake the guy down for $6k to "restore" said upgrade. I knew then that Tesla was a company I wanted nothing to do with.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was out the minute I heard there was a $6000 option for the promise of self-driving some time in the future.

BS vaporware company.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget the Roadster, down payments started being accepted in November 2017, still no car. Wtf is that?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Smells like vapor.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does get away with it? The mind bogles 😂

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago

Destroying the parts of the government investigating Elon's companies is at least a factor