That's just plain silly... you think they'll just flip a switch at some point and BOOM your car is immediately FSD? Surely they'll slowly be adding functionality over a period of time (I'm guessing years). If I were to guess I'd say they'll start with the car being able to see speed limit signs, perhaps stop at traffic lights and start going again on green, stop at stop signs, stop for pedestrians, see school zone signs, etc etc. In pieces. It won't go from NO FSD to FULL FSD overnight.
Of course I don't expect them to throw a switch and go from not FSD to FSD. But there will come a point, maybe ten years from now, when the car becomes certified as a Level 4 or Level 5 car. Until then, the car is not FSD
Don’t be dense and keep up.
Everyone - even non Tesla owners know what is being discussed.
A feature, some feature describe in the $3000 checkbox is getting activated.
I don't remember any specific features being described in the $3,000 check-box. Elon has talked about the car being able to be sent off on its own to pick up a rider, take that rider to a destination, and return. It's obvious that now Elon is saying that Tesla will begin to roll out
some of the features that will eventually be part of an FSD car. I'm asking which features are coming this August.
And, incidentally, will they be BETA features that still require full driver alertness and readiness to take over, like the EAP features? Some folks have mentioned the possibility of the car being able to stop at stop signs and traffic lights when there is not a car stopped ahead of you. There are corners where the stop sign is not so easily visible. In my neighborhood I know where these are. How well will the car handle these, if indeed this is one of the features?
I don't think it is "dense" or unreasonable to ask which features they're getting close to releasing. So far I've seen speculation but nothing from Tesla. I suppose we won't actually know until those features appear in cars that have paid for FSD. I also think it's misleading to call them FSD features since they don't make the car full self driving until it has the full suite of features installed, tested, and certified.
Just as Enhanced Autopilot is not an autopilot in any reasonable sense of the word since the driver needs to be alert and ready to take over at an instant's notice, so the FSD package people are paying $3,000 for is a misleading name until the full package is ready and certified.
Kind of like labeling a carton of eggs "One dozen chickens." They're not chickens until they hatch. And it's not FSD until it can drive itself. I'm ranting about this because I've seen people shouting about Tesla's "self driving" cars get into accidents, and I have to explain that "autopilot" does not really mean autopilot. It's just a name Tesla has given to some driver-assist features. Now Tesla is going to introduce some more driver-assist features, which is excellent. But calling this "FSD" is going to come back to bite them on the ass the first time one of these cars is in an accident.
I love my Model 3. And I loved my Roadster before that. These are fabulous cars. But let's not call an egg a chicken.