Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

doener•about 4 hours ago

"7 years ago, Musk said HW3 Teslas had "all the hardware necessary, compute and otherwise, for Full Self-Driving. He repeated this for years."

https://x.com/RealDanODowd/status/2047076407705264227?

bayarearefugee•about 4 hours ago

Almost everything Musk says is either an outright lie or wildly optimistic to the point of lying.

FSD has been a year or two away every year since 2015.

There was going to be a voyage to Mars by 2024.

Funding was secured to take Tesla private at $420 a share.

He was going to save multiple trillions of dollars with DOGE.

There would be "close to zero new cases" of Covid by April 2020.

These are all off the top of my head, I'm sure we could list dozens more of these types of claims.

Nobody should be surprised when Elon lies, the real question is why does the media or anyone else continue to give anything he says any air of legitimacy at all given his track record of claims vs reality?

SpaceX (minus his Mars claims, which he has been clearly backtracking on for the past year or so) is the only one of his enterprises that isn't almost entirely hype and vibes based at this point, and from everything I've read it is because they uniquely understand how to mitigate the damage caused by his persistent manic overreach.

adityamwagh•about 4 hours ago

And somehow he’s worth $655B. Pays to lie I guess haha.

yifanl•about 2 hours ago

Lying is a competitive advantage, yes. Why do you think companies have marketing budgets?

FireBeyond•about 2 hours ago

Let's not forget by 2023, all the Tesla owners making money as they sleep with their cars doubling as Robotaxis. Elon: "At that point it would be financially irresponsible not to own a Tesla".

EA-3167•about 4 hours ago

And of course there was the entire Thai Cave rescue, and the utter nuisance he made of himself.

cma•about 3 hours ago

Before that he said he pay to filter everyone's water in Flint if it tested bad. I think he donated a few filtered water foubtains instead.

vrganj•about 2 hours ago

How is this huckster not in prison?

ulfw•about 2 hours ago

Elon Reeve Musk a liar?!? No! Say it ain't so!

jijojv•about 3 hours ago

Still don't understand how they got away selling this Full Scam of the Decade™ from Oct 2016 (Starting with "Driver is just there for legal reasons" video) to Apr 2024 (when they officially changed it to Supervised FSD)

dataviz1000•about 4 hours ago

Does this mean Cursor is going to ship features faster or slower?

qwerpy•about 4 hours ago

Anyone who has owned both HW3 and HW4 would know this. There’s a big difference between my HW3 Y and HW4 truck. The truck can drive itself almost flawlessly from start to finish and feels natural. The Y drives like a robot and occasionally makes mistakes. I would pay reasonable money to upgrade it to HW4 so that my wife isn’t stuck on old FSD.

addyhathaway•about 4 hours ago

I bought a model 3 in early 2018 and added FSD during one of the price drops in 2018 or 2019. Tesla upgraded it from HW1 to HW3 and now I'm curious if they'll upgrade mine to Hw4 before I end up selling the car (I think I have at most 2 years before the battery capacity becomes too limiting for me)

happyPersonR•about 4 hours ago

Lol you should just upgrade the battery lollll

Havoc•about 5 hours ago

Amazing that they're still peddling it. Must be closing in fast on a decade now, no?

FireBeyond•about 5 hours ago

I wonder if this will be another bait and switch. Despite advertising that "all Teslas will come with the hardware for FSD", and accepting that Tesla was willing to do hardware upgrades...

... they won't, unless you're paying for FSD. Misleading (from Tesla? Say it ain't so). They weren't advertising "All Teslas will come with or get the hardware for FSD, if you are paying for the service, that is." Might seem like a nit pick, but I can easily foresee a day where they say they're only doing upgrades for vehicles "newer than X".

protimewaster•about 4 hours ago

They offer monthly subscriptions AFAIK, so I'm skeptical they'd upgrade for just any subscription. Otherwise, a person could buy one month, they have to upgrade the car, and then they never buy a second month.

FireBeyond•about 2 hours ago

That's not the point, though. The car was sold, as advertised, as "having the hardware necessary for FSD". Sure, I get it, that they later realized it's not possible on older hardware, so they said they'd do the "right" (obligated) thing and upgrade that hardware.

But many people tell tales of "Well, we won't upgrade your hardware unless you actually pay for FSD first", which is NOT what was sold. At that point you have a case against Tesla for a material difference. Having the hardware necessary for FSD is not in any way contingent on you having purchased or subscribed to the software.

Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

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