Lol. Lmao, even. Pay every month to put yourself in mortal danger.

Now who here has bought themselves a taxicab?

FSD, which starts at $99 per month, is key to the future of the company as Musk tries to establish Tesla as a leader in autonomous mobility. The one-time price was $8,000.

Real "Heads-I-Win" / "Tails-You-Lose" game Tesla drivers are playing. $8k is around 6.5 years of monthly payments. Not exactly a great deal, especially when Tesla heavily subsidies existing owners to trade up to a newer model every 2-4 years in order to boost their own sales figures. But the phrase "starts at" is the financial equivalent of a hand grenade. You know its going to blow up on you. Just a matter of when.

And with the dubious safety of these new fully-autonomous vehicles...

Higher Crash Rates in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) vs. Traditional Cars

AVs in California experienced 26.3 crashes per million miles in 2022—dramatically higher than the 0.7 per million miles for human-driven vehicles.

One has to wonder what this will do to car insurance rates in the near future, as more of these vehicles hit the road.

It already was? I mean, you could also choose to just buy it but both options were available. Title should be "Tesla removes option to purchase FSD".

So now people can pay for the privilege of being killed when the AI does crazy shit, causes and accident, and they burn to death because the analog door release is buried somewhere nearly impossible to access.

I was driving a model Y the other day and it thought the car in front had its left rear turning indicator on when it didn’t. That coupled with my daughter saying that lane keeping is really scary where multiple lanes merge and the lines are all over the place.

Of course they are. Nobody is buying their cars, so they have to figure out how to exploit the current dummies, er...marks...um, losers...customers, yeah, that's the word.

🤣🤣🤣

This is an admission that HW4 will not be sufficient. If you bought FSD, they will have to upgrade your hardware whenifer they declare it "autonomous".

It also limits the refunds they may have to issue in California.