Since I have had EAP for 10 months and have done two 2000 mile road trips, I am gonna try the $99/mo. I really like EAP features especially on long trips and believe it or not, to help with questionable interchanges in the map display on navigation.
Like a high speed interchange with 3 or more choices that look like one thick blue line, EAP picks the the right one for you for example. And auto lane change is great. Much much less tired after 9 hour trip as a result. Yes it gets a bit wonky on slow ramps and particularly when there is absence of clear painted lane lines.
I would like to hear from someone like me who has had EAP for awhile and uses it regularly, then added FSD later. Getting stop
and
awareness along on top of EAP doesn’t seem worth $5000 to me right now.
But if it buys you the Tesla promise of auto steer on city streets and very close to autonomous driving, I might consider the purchase now. I will try the subscription route now anyway. I guess I don’t trust Tesla or trust that they won’t just tack on yet another $2K to add more feature to FSD later. They need to get better on giving more purchase contract details in my opinion. The bulletized feature list alone that only says “Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control” with “Coming Soon—Autosteer on City Streets” just doesn’t do it for me.
And let’s not forget the caveat that this feature is not autonomous driving and full driver attention is required. Really I think our $99/mo funding their huge super computer, the big hiring push of AI computer scientists/software engineers, and widening the FSD database or data collection so they have a chance of success on the promises already made. And we know what those promises are.