FSD cost way more than $3,000. You had to buy EAP and AP to get FSD.
So a couple things....
1) You couldn't buy "EAP and AP" you could only buy EAP OR AP-- you never had both stacking at the same time.
2) I explicitly called this out much earlier in the thread
3) You
actually got something for the EAP money- a bunch of excellent, usable features. You paid 5k for that, back when FSD was another 3k. So, yes, you paid 3k to add FSD (which at the time
did literally nothing to your very-useful 5k EAP purchase.
No, but when the car costs on the order of 4x as much as a comparably sized traditional ICE car, the effective cost of FSD is far, far more than the cost of the options package.
My Model 3 was actually cheaper than a comparable new vehicle from Lexus, BMW 3, Mercedes C, etc.
If you meant "It cost more than the cheapest Kia" that's... not very comparable.... so I'm unclear what point you're making here.
The only reasonable way to evaluate the true cost of FSD is to compare the cost of buying a vehicle with the cheapest options and FSD against a similar vehicle without FSD. A vehicle with similar passenger and cargo room would probably be something like a RAV4 or Nissan Rogue.
I wouldn't find either
remotely comparable to my Model 3.
I listed several of the cars I was cross shopping at the time. All of them (pre FSD) cost MORE than the Tesla cost me, and what ADAS features they offered were
utter garbage compared to EAP (mostly they still are 4+ years later-- let alone the ones on the much cheaper, not at all comparable, vehicles you cite)
Even if you add in the cost of either company's automation that presumably gives comparable capabilities to Enhanced Autopilot by now
Also wrong. They aren't remotely comparable.
So no, the price of FSD is not $3k. A more reasonable estimate would be $50–80k, depending on the car model.
Reasonable is exactly the opposite of the word describing the contents of your post here
