Featured Tesla full self-driving (FSD) now goes behind monthly paywall

So you have a title that says you legally OWN a vehicle and yet Tesla thinks you actually only rent portions of the vehicle and you can't ever completely own the vehicle you hold a legally binding title to? This is so corrupt!

 

Imagine if you sold someone a house you built and they own that house, but there was a part of the house that was locked and they could only use that part of the house by paying a monthy rent. That's the level of f*ckery that these monthly payments for car features has turned into.

 

Will let you know what happens. I bought Autopilot and FSD in 2019 and as long as they are not taken away or disabled, I am happy with what I’ve got.

Tesla had been stupid to not let me transfer FSD to a newer Model 3 except on their short, quarterly sales schedule. So I keep my 2019 running as long as possible. But eventually it too will reach “end of life” and I still have a working 2017 BMW i3.

So I’ll wait on any official Tesla communications or actions. I have no problem with a reasonable ‘maintenance’ service fee but not at $100 per month.

Just don’t “take it back!” Stopping updates would not bother me as the current release meets my requirements.

By blocking WiFi access while keeping Bluetooth, I should be able to block poison pill downloads.

Bob Wilson

 

Big whoop-dee-doo it's going monthly. It's a marketing scheme. They'll try it, & if it works, it'll continue. If not? They'll go back to plan A. It's just like they have done with free supercharging. On again - off again, on again off

 

It is a disguised price increase, as are nearly all the things moved from ownership to subscriptions.

Has anything else gone back to Plan A? I gave up waiting for MS-Office go back, and switched to something else when the old one wouldn't load on to a new machine.

 

same things all msg's are looking at, monthly subscriptions, nothing new under the sun, just first world problems