gearchruncher
Well-Known Member
Technologies such as seat belts, airbags, stability control, ABS, AEB, etc are already proven highly effective at reducing deaths. Tesla's own numbers show this. Until these are standard in these countries you discuss, there is zero way they can afford FSD. FSD is not the $10K software cost- it's a lot of hardware in the car that you don't see the cost of buying.Reality is the vast majority of those fatalities are happening in countries that are far less wealthy and less developed, the stats are publicly available
The way to make safety things cheaper always follows the same path:
1) Some company makes it actually work (note, Tesla has not done this yet and isn't close at all)
2) They sell it for a premium (airbags, abs, seat belts, traction control, backup cameras were all premium features originally)
3) The volume from this lowers the price
4) Companies start competing over price or making it a standard feature
5) Enough cars get it to show it is statistically and financially worth it
6) Governments start mandating it
7) Price falls further
The real way Tesla can save all those lives is to make FSD actually work, and ship it to more than 71 people. The current price is irrelevant, once it works, competition will take over.