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I wonder why it took so many years? Is preparing a class action so time consuming or people were really hoping that Tesla will ship the promised AI to them?
by ArekDymalski 4y ago
I wonder why it took so many years? Is preparing a class action so time consuming or people were really hoping that Tesla will ship the promised AI to them?
- zamalek 4y ago> I wonder why it took so many years? Tesla recently turned it into an up-sell, instead of a free (beta) feature. It was $10000 when I was considering a Tesla.
- ender341341 4y agoIt's always been paid pre-order (though I think it used to be 6k instead)
- filoleg 4y agoThis is false. They recently added a subscription option (prior to that it was only available as a one-time buy), but it has always been an extra upcharge. It intentionally started at some initial pricepoint and then kept increasing the closer it gets to completion. Sorta like an early adopter discount. I remember it was around $7k in 2019, and it ramped up to around $10k in the present day.
- olliej 4y agoI'm sure preparation of such does take time, but I would guess that the CA DMV recently determining that Tesla's "Full Self Driving" is not, in fact, full self driving and banning trying to use it as such is the motivation. FSD costs a obscene amount of money for a feature that every Tesla clearly already supports, but as it has now been declared by the CA DMV to be not FSD, and therefore people cannot even consider using it, the purchasers quite reasonably want their refunded. Also it remains absurd to me that you can advertise a product for X, but then get out of liability by saying you do not guarantee it can be used for X. In the case of Tesla FSD it's both "full self driving" but also "the driver must remain in control of the vehicle at all times", but there are plenty of other examples you can produce.