It doesn’t literally drive itself, but it’s going to cost more.
Elon Musk announced in a Tweet on Sunday that Tesla’s “fully self-driving” technology, or FSD, will cost more than originally expected.
After the wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, the price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5.
The current price will be honored for orders placed before September 5, but delivered later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2022
“Following the wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, the price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5,” Musk wrote.
It costs $15,000, up from $12,000. According to the company’s website, Tesla customers can make arrangements to have the technology installed.
The move is somewhat unsurprising in an inflationary environment. Although inflation cooled in July, according to the consumer price indexcompanies have leaned on price increases, including Tesla and Amazon.
The new FSD price will take effect for orders placed after September 5, Musk added in his Tweet. If you order before then he also said you will get the same price but a later delivery.
Tesla increased its prices for its electric cars in March, April and June of this year, every year Electreksometimes significant.
Elon Musk also mentioned a potential price hike for Tesla’s unreleased electric pickup truck at a shareholders’ meeting in early August, citing inflation and other concerns.
“There is no way to anticipate the inflation that we have seen and the various problems,” he said at the meeting. according to IFL Science.
The phrase “fully self-driving” technology is a bit of a misnomer for the uninitiated.
FSD combines Tesla’s “Autopilot” and “Enhanced Autopilot” packages, and allows a car to help, for example, change lanes, steer and park, as well as imitate the speeds of cars and move towards an app.
About 100,000 drivers are testing the technology in beta mode to build out the AI so the system can learn to drive, by Benzinga.
And those testers “have become a whole genre on YouTube”, Insider reports that. Elon Musk responded to a Tweet claiming that an FSD Tesla hit a child’s decoy, calling it a “scam.”
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2022
Tesla’s later added that its Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) system is intended to reduce the likelihood of a collision, not prevent a collision completely, Insider also reported.
The name of the program – fully self-driving, when in fact the car doesn’t – has encountered some controversy.
A private German regulator has sued Tesla for misleading marketing as far as FSD and its autopilot packages go, but Tesla won an appeal in October 2021 in a decision only recently made public by German outlet TeslaMag.de, according to Teslarati.
However, there are standard definitions for what makes a self-driving car. The levels go from one to five. Five means “a vehicle can drive itself anywhere and under any conditions without any human intervention,” thus: JD Power.
Tesla’s FSD is currently classified as a level two, the blog added.
