Will Hardware 3.0 improve the performance of cars without FSD? The current hardware seems to be sufficient for EAP. It might be worth it to pay $2000 for FSD now if you can upgrade to Hardware 3.0 for free later. But if FSD never comes to fruition and Hardware 3.0 provides no benefit over our current Hardware 2.5, then that $2000 is wasted.
That's why I'm not getting FSD and going to hold off. I'm more concerned about parts being available as they don't have a good track record. Considering once hw3 is available any new production cars will get them first, model s/x/3 and then once model y is available it's going to go there too. Since they plan on producing 500k cars a year that is a lot of hw3 units they need to supply in parallel. But who knows, I'm personally not going for it until something concrete happens with FSD. By then maybe I'll trade it in for a Model Y.