Autopilot vs FSD question

[doubleohwhat]

Hi All,

I have a somewhat early model 3 (in the first 10k) and I'm a bit confused about what FSD offers vs what my car currently has. From what I can tell, my car already has the following:
1) Navigate on autopilot on highway
2) Auto lane change on highway
3) Autopark
4) Summon

I keep getting notifications in the app about FSD and finally clicked on it today. It's $5k and lists the following as features:
1) Navigate on Autopilot
2) Auto Lane Change
3) Autopark
4) Summon
5) Traffic light and Stop Sign Control

Is there any difference between the 1-4 FSD features and what my car already has or is it literally $5k for just traffic light and stop sign control?

I understand that FSD will keep improving over time. I'm just confused about what the $5k for FSD would get me at this moment.

 

[glide]

Nope. You would effectively be throwing away the money on #5 at this point.

 

[Knightshade]

You don't have autopilot, you have Enhanced Autopilot- which Tesla stopped selling after Feb 2019.

Basically from late 2016 through then your options were:

EAP for $5000 with the features you list (plus TACC and autosteer)


FSD for $3000 more (later raised to 4k, and now 5k) on top of EAP- which until a couple months ago added literally no features but now adds stoplight/stop sign control. More features are promised later as well.

DISCLAIMER: the one other thing you'd get with FSD right now (or as soon as you can get an appointment at a service center) is your driving computer (currently HW2.5) would be upgraded to the much more powerful FSD computer- though this difference doesn't mean a TON at the moment, it's what will be needed to support all new features going forward.



From March 2019 onward the options were instead:

Basic AP (JUST TACC and autosteer)- which was $3000 briefly, and then became "included" with all versions of the car except the SR, in exchange for a $2000 raise in price of car.

FSD for $5000 (later raised to 6k, then 7k, and now 8k)- which adds on top of basic AP all the other stuff that used to be in EAP, plus the stoplight/stop sign control, plus any future new features coming later.... (and the FSD computer upgrade if you need it)

 

[doubleohwhat]

Thanks all. In that case I'm gonna have to pass on the $5k "upgrade". While I find autopilot very useful on the highway, I really have no interest in using it around town on city streets. I'd be a buyer at $2k max just for the newer computer as I'm sure the features I already have would benefit from that at some point.

 

[PLUGZIN]

Thanks all. In that case I'm gonna have to pass on the $5k "upgrade". While I find autopilot very useful on the highway, I really have no interest in using it around town on city streets. I'd be a buyer at $2k max just for the newer computer as I'm sure the features I already have would benefit from that at some point.

 

[PLUGZIN]

I too have early 2018 with EAP and also thought $5K too pricey for HW3 and better visualization since FSD still likely quite awhile away. But did think it would be worth around $2K. Last week Tesla sent me an email offering me HW3 and FSD for $3K. Offer was good thru 6/30 - so I decided to take it before they keep raising price. Now I just need to wait for Service center to get the HW3 back in stock.

 

[doubleohwhat]

If they ever run a sale for $2k for EAP cars then I'll likely get it. I figure that's a fair cost to cover the new computer and the installation. I just really have no interest in the car actually driving itself on city streets.