• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Wasn’t it already? Fucking Tesla is so damn confusing on how the hell this shit works. Every 2 months it changes, price changes, how the use it changes, and if they even get it. God I’m so glad I wouldn’t ever buy one of those shit boxes.

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    6 hours ago

    Then first create the full self driving that you have lied about already existing for the past decade

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      4 hours ago

      To be fair, he’s a genius in continuesly scamming people without losing their faith in him. Although it’s less geniusness and more stupidity of other people. Yeah he’s not a genius, he’s a scammer. Not even an artist at it.

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      2 hours ago

      yeah the self driving has not been approved anywhere yet. this is “supervised” only

      this just the first step of burying the failure

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      12 hours ago

      Apparently we live in a reality in which you don’t need to have a product in order make it shit anymore.

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      10 hours ago

      You need to sign up for a 3 year subscription to be put on the waiting list for the product that will be ready in 5 years after you subscribed. If you don’t renew after the first 3 years you lose your spot and need to reapply.

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      14 hours ago

      And I would think that before releasing the feature they’d have to get it to stop constantly crashibg cars into large stationary objects.

      It’s probably vibe-coded.

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    14 hours ago

    Kinda a crazy move considering that they were charging 8k for “fsd” before, and are moving to a monthly subscription of a hundred bucks a month.

    You would have to own your Tesla for six and a half years for them to make the same return. My guess is that the hundred dollars a month is just the initial price which will drastically inflate over time. That or they are just going to raise prices by 8k and still charge you a subscription cost anyways…

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      10 hours ago

      At one point they were charging $15k for it, and Elmo was claiming it would go to $100k in its final form. You know, when it actually fucking worked. Which it never will.

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        9 hours ago

        They seem to be dropping the price until they find a price point where a decent percentage of their users will actually pay for the service.

        If the system was genuinely self driving, as in the vehicle could run unattended, it would be worth having.

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          9 hours ago

          I bought it for my Tesla (back when I had it) for $2500. Shitty decision, but I believed the hype. Can’t wait to get my $5 check from the class action suit.

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      11 hours ago

      Nah, I suspect nobody was buying the feature. They may increase the price if they get it to truly work, but I suspect a hundred odd a month is what most people are willing to pay.

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        11 hours ago

        Yes, I suspect this is a chas flow thing. Their sales are dropping. The feature is there, sonit costs nothing to give it. See if they can milk a few dollars. Even if it makes less money on the long term, it might stop the share price crashing in the medium or short term.

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      13 hours ago

      Or you get more people buying in. 8k up front looks a lot different than a couple hundred a month.

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        13 hours ago

        I’d rather just pay it once and have it.

        Like video games. Just let me pay money for the whole game.

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          10 hours ago

          the problem is it’s non-transferrable, so if you want to sell the car (or totaled it) before ~6 years you would lose money compared to paying $100/month.

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    11 hours ago

    Poor middle class people will start taking out car loans to buy Tesla. Just like the iPhone phenomena

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    Kind of makes sense. If I had a Tesla, I might consider grabbing it for a month if I were going on a road trip to reduce the driving load.

    It also lets people test it every once in a while to see if it actually works. Based on a ride I had in one a few months ago, it still has quite a bit to go.

    I would be most concerned about them increasing prices over time. $100/month isn’t too bad, but I’m sure it will increase to well over double that over the next few years.