The OTA updates were one of the things I like about my Model 3 but not for awhile now. With the interface update that shrunk icons and wasting a big chunk of screen real estate for car animation its been a mess. I hope your right about the radar not being removed. I tried my auto headlights the last few mornings on the way to work and I switch to manual after just a few miles, they just are not ready at this point. With all the talk of machine learning and the huge advantage Tesla has over everyone with the logged miles driven I cannot understand why its not better. I just don't see how all that data they have collected is making the car better thru updates recently.Sure Willy, "Tesla states...". Full self-driving will be here before the end of year 2016 or whatever it was.
You know - I'm a big Tesla fan. But that doesn't mean I turn off my brain and start parroting ridiculous marketing statements. There are things that radar can see and camera cannot (particularly in low visibility conditions) - it's simply physics, whatever the Tesla sales guys say. That's why they use radar in military installations and not cameras.
The fact remains - we bought and paid for cars with specific safety features, including radar. If Tesla attempts to remove that from the cars we own - they will be in serious trouble, Microsoft may claim they own your Windows (and you're just leasing it) so they can disable features as they want. Tesla has no claim it owns the cars it sold - and it has zero right to disable anything on them.
Edit: And BTW - the guy few pages back was right. Tesla software updates were one of the greatest features, and a great reason to buy the cars. We all were looking forward to the cars getting better over time. But now - they are making people get scared of the next software update, and what it will disable. Looking for ways to turn software updates off. Turning one of the best reasons to buy the car into a reason NOT to buy it. At least when I buy a BMW I know it will always have its radar. It is a really bad move for Tesla, If they have some sense - they will come out and very clearly state that software updates will never disable existing features - otherwise they are simply doing massive damage to themselves.