That's a resptable opinion. As long as you're willing to pay for it and you are ok with the features as it currently stands, it's fine. The issue with most people is that Elon's promise - FULL SELF DRIVING..... Also, the used car market is definitely NOT pricing in the FSD being 10k over, so that's the way how the real market values it.
Agreed, I just don't have the willpower to drive a Tesla into the ground. If the plan is to hold on to the car for a long period of time - could be a good decision. Just plan for retrofits and possible EOL if new camera positions are added or new tech isn't compatible with older cars.
Yeah, we have never been convinced by the time tables Elon states, but based on the last 4 years of experience I’m pretty sure it will continue to improve. An interesting question that has helped us feel good about the purchase is: what do you call a feature that’s better than just lane keeping and auto-lane changing on the highway, but not so advanced that you can sleep in the backseat while your car drives you home? Or in other words, what’s in between what we have today and that future promise of level 4 FSD? How do we categorize a car that the driver still has to take over at the beginning and end of a drive (driveway, parking lots, alleyways) and maybe every hundred miles or so, but otherwise handles all public road traffic just fine? We just don’t have concepts of what’s between present day and “true full self driving”.
I'm with you, if the purchase is transferrable, I would have bought it long time ago. I'm going to be getting my 4th Tesla due to the crazy used car market and Covid, can't imagine paying 10k or 12k each time when no one else in the used car market is willing to pay for the FSD.
The prior four years of endless snake oil and lies didn’t provide you with enough warning as to what you were signing up for?
Nope, once it is really available (years from now) Tesla will not be the only company to offer it. Prices will go down and most likely it will be close to free as they will need data, lots of it, to keep it working.
Original EAP value proposition was worth 5k. (I paid that)
This is a bit of hyperbole. Sure, it’s true today if you want early access to the beta, but I’m confident eventually Tesla will have to upgrade the holdouts to MCU2 on the company dime once (if) FSD sees general fleet release.
You're supposed to keep your foot hovering over the accelerator too, to react to phantom braking. Also be ready to grab the steering wheel, so hover over that. Some people prefer to disengage with the stalk, so better hover near that too.
