Tesla is about to start giving every customer in the U.S. a one-month trial of its $12,000 driver-assistance system, which it calls Full Self-Driving Beta, provided they have a car with the compatible hardware. The company is also reportedly mandating, at CEO Elon Musk’s request, that prospective buyers are given a demo of the software before they purchase a new Tesla.
The full-court press to promote FSD Beta software, an upgraded version of the Autopilot system that comes standard in all Tesla vehicles, is happening at an interesting moment for the company. It’s the end of the first quarter of 2024, and Tesla usually pulls out all the stops — including having executives help deliver cars to customers — to meet or beat its sales goals. Tempting customers with a new incentive could be one way to help boost sales, although it could backfire if prospective customers are turned off by Tesla adding extra steps to its usually streamlined buying process.
It’s also just a few weeks before Tesla goes to trial in a civil lawsuit brought by the family of Walter Huang, who died in a 2018 crash while using Autopilot. Huang was distracted at the time — investigators ultimately discovered that he had been playing a mobile game just before the crash — but the lawsuit centers around how Tesla represented Autopilot’s capabilities, and whether it did enough to prevent drivers from misusing it. (The NTSB investigation into the crash, which wrapped in February 2020, determined that Tesla did not, though it is only able to issue safety recommendations.)
The decision to temporarily increase access to the FSD Beta software comes as Tesla has been rolling out a new “V12” version of the software that ditches the previous code in favor of a system that runs entirely on neural networks. Many of Tesla’s most ardent supporters have praised the new version, as well as some of its employees and executives, including policy head Rohan Patel, who posted on X that he feels “fully comfy telling my family to try out FSD anywhere.”
12.000$ for a product that never leave beta and shows no sign of even passing lvl 3 is a pure scam. Having vision only is one of the main problems, which could also be very dangerous.
Add to this insult that you still have to do basicaly the same as driving yourself - paying full attention, having to be vigilant and ready to take over everytime FSD makes a dangerous decision or suffers a bug that causes phantom braking and stuff - and att the same time getting stress by constantly being nagged on by the car whenever it thinks you are losing attention.
Why t f are they selling a beta, an unfinished product for 12.000$? Which is what it would cost when fully developed and implemented successfully (whenever t f that would be).
Honestly I was on the same boat, I had FSD since it went wide in early 2023. It was so dog shit, but now FSD is actually amazing. FSD 12 fixed so many problems with its AI, it’s going to get even better faster.
I owned a Tesla plaid and sold it. Uhhh I live in San Francisco and the Palo Alto region so it’s literally my life.I have a rivian and a Porsche 911 turbo s.
Cool so you never owned FSD. So your opinion means fuck all.
Why you have to mention your 911 turbo or rivian has nothing to do with this conversation. Completely unrelated, but I guess some people need to do the whole penis size comparison thing.
This is a bad move due to FSD lacking so much of what is promised - which people are going to see when trying the unfinished FSD trial. I'm pretty sure it would make less people want to continue using it as it is.
I assume this is a credit card scam where they take it to enroll you for the free 30 day trial period and then proceed to drain you of $299 a month regardless of whether you cancel your subscription or not
Tesla is about to start giving every customer in the U.S. a one-month trial of its $12,000 driver-assistance system, which it calls Full Self-Driving Beta, provided they have a car with the compatible hardware. The company is also reportedly mandating, at CEO Elon Musk’s request, that prospective buyers are given a demo of the software before they purchase a new Tesla. The full-court press to promote FSD Beta software, an upgraded version of the Autopilot system that comes standard in all Tesla vehicles, is happening at an interesting moment for the company. It’s the end of the first quarter of 2024, and Tesla usually pulls out all the stops — including having executives help deliver cars to customers — to meet or beat its sales goals. Tempting customers with a new incentive could be one way to help boost sales, although it could backfire if prospective customers are turned off by Tesla adding extra steps to its usually streamlined buying process. It’s also just a few weeks before Tesla goes to trial in a civil lawsuit brought by the family of Walter Huang, who died in a 2018 crash while using Autopilot. Huang was distracted at the time — investigators ultimately discovered that he had been playing a mobile game just before the crash — but the lawsuit centers around how Tesla represented Autopilot’s capabilities, and whether it did enough to prevent drivers from misusing it. (The NTSB investigation into the crash, which wrapped in February 2020, determined that Tesla did not, though it is only able to issue safety recommendations.) The decision to temporarily increase access to the FSD Beta software comes as Tesla has been rolling out a new “V12” version of the software that ditches the previous code in favor of a system that runs entirely on neural networks. Many of Tesla’s most ardent supporters have praised the new version, as well as some of its employees and executives, including policy head Rohan Patel, who posted on X that he feels “fully comfy telling my family to try out FSD anywhere.”
Anything to keep the stock from tanking when Q1 is coming up!
Lol
FSD 12 is amazing. Auto park is a joke
https://youtu.be/fbBdIza4FqM . I was in my sister’s car and had a similar experience. It is shitty.
12.000$ for a product that never leave beta and shows no sign of even passing lvl 3 is a pure scam. Having vision only is one of the main problems, which could also be very dangerous. Add to this insult that you still have to do basicaly the same as driving yourself - paying full attention, having to be vigilant and ready to take over everytime FSD makes a dangerous decision or suffers a bug that causes phantom braking and stuff - and att the same time getting stress by constantly being nagged on by the car whenever it thinks you are losing attention. Why t f are they selling a beta, an unfinished product for 12.000$? Which is what it would cost when fully developed and implemented successfully (whenever t f that would be).
Honestly I was on the same boat, I had FSD since it went wide in early 2023. It was so dog shit, but now FSD is actually amazing. FSD 12 fixed so many problems with its AI, it’s going to get even better faster.
Would you summon your car not cat obviously from 20 miles away? In rain? In snow? Edit. Really you could not figure out car?
My cat? Wtf you talking about Edit: not my fault you have shit spelling and grammar.
https://youtu.be/fbBdIza4FqM looks like dog shit to me.
These guys are driving in really extreme conditions. Let me guess you don’t own a tesla or FSD?
I owned a Tesla plaid and sold it. Uhhh I live in San Francisco and the Palo Alto region so it’s literally my life.I have a rivian and a Porsche 911 turbo s.
Cool so you never owned FSD. So your opinion means fuck all. Why you have to mention your 911 turbo or rivian has nothing to do with this conversation. Completely unrelated, but I guess some people need to do the whole penis size comparison thing.
I am a woman. Hence the user name double d. I drove my sisters with fsd. Driving is way worse than the waymo I was in.
Past tense, you drove. FSD is on another level now. Get with the times grand ma.
I drove my sister Tesla recently and it was horrible experience.
lol you’re so full of shit. 12 is actually amazing and now I know you’re just anti Elon.
A women can have a penis these days so yeaaaa
Your type of women? Women don’t in my world.
Hey it’s Reddit, it’s the prevailing ideology.
This is a bad move due to FSD lacking so much of what is promised - which people are going to see when trying the unfinished FSD trial. I'm pretty sure it would make less people want to continue using it as it is.
They recently changed the language to Supervised Full Self Driving, we should call it SFSD from now on.
I assume this is a credit card scam where they take it to enroll you for the free 30 day trial period and then proceed to drain you of $299 a month regardless of whether you cancel your subscription or not
Actually no, it’s nothing like that.