FSD subscription possibly coming soon.

[joexn]

I've been informed by Tesla that they're actively working on a FSD subscription for the UK. They don't have a timescale for launching it–but it's coming.

What are your opinions on this?

 

[speedyranger74]

Bought time ago... at this poi6 my opinion doesn't matter.
Is out in USA... will arrive here too.
When?
2 weeks
Even 3 weeks will be within tolerance

 

[Adopado]

I've been informed by Tesla that they're actively working on a FSD subscription for the UK. They don't have a timescale for launching it–but it's coming.

What are your opinions on this?

Won't make a jot of difference to me. If I had wanted it I would have bought it when I got the car. Had a free trial of EAP and this confirmed that I had made the right choice for me. Aside from anything else driving on a dual carriageway is a rare occurrence!

 

[Mr_Dave]

I believe FSD is still a long way off being a genuinely viable prospect in the UK. Tesla can’t even eliminate utterly inexplicable phantom braking incidents in TACC so FSD in NEVER going to cope with all the idiot knuckleheads driving around in a typical Macclesfield rush hour.

 

[Billbrown1982]

Although I purchased FSD with the car and in my head treated it as an "investment", I would say releasing a subscription model at this stage is utterly pointless. Not many people are going to bother with it as it adds so little in its current form.

 

[btc1k]

They'd have to pay me to beta test it, not the other way around

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

EAP is where it stops being remotely useful in the UK. I can see people paying £100 for an EAP subscription but not £200 for FSD, the extra £100 getting you one extra feature at the moment.

 

[Jason71]

I am really interested but I can't afford it right now. I have all my money tied up in the Brooklyn bridge and a unicorn farm.

 

[Durzel]

EAP is where it stops being remotely useful in the UK. I can see people paying £100 for an EAP subscription but not £200 for FSD, the extra £100 getting you one extra feature at the moment.

Don’t worry the birds eye view Elon promised is coming to FSD any day now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1312253928667410432

(nearly a year old)

 

[phil4]

As others have said... FSD just doesn't make sense in the UK, it's too heavily restricted by the laws, and not mature enough where it can. Like others I had the trial, and it confirmed not buying it when I bought the car was the right thing.

EAP is borderline better value but even that is mainly just Nav on AP the rest most of the time isn't useful.

So lets say, based on US pricing we'd be looking at £199/month. Nope, not paying that just for Nav on AP. £50, maybe... but not £199.

I think they'll have very low take-up, especially at that price, as even those that do, will cancel shortly after.

 

[Adopado]

Unfortunately FSD ... despite the initials ... isn't full self driving. That's the case under any jurisdiction in the world. If we were talking about genuine full self driving I would revise my opinion, but we're clearly not.

 

[Jason71]

Don’t worry the birds eye view Elon promised is coming to FSD any day now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1312253928667410432

(nearly a year old)

I don't know what "Vector Space" is but my parents £30K Kia Soul has birds eye view as standard. Does not seem like something that should be part of a £6K option on a £50K car when it does arrive.

 

[GRiLLA]

Perhaps they are getting it ready as they will soon be able to offer compelling features as part of FSD, or there will have a 50% off EAP subscription offering. I agree that there isn't currently any real benefit in FSD over EAP.

 

[Fursty Ferret]

Vector space means the scene is drawn virtually from 3D data points. The birds eye view in your Kia is just the four cameras stitched together and carefully warped.

Cameras on the Tesla are in the wrong place to do this effectively.

 

[Durzel]

Perhaps that’s why it’s never come to fruition. One of those tweets where Elon wants to impress but hasn’t actually spoken to his engineering team.

 

[candida]

I'd pay for a reliable cruise control that didn't brake test randomly and slow down in sweeping bends... although I naively thought I had paid for it in the purchase price

 

[Limey]

I'm not paying for EAP while AP can't go under a bridge without threatening you with a funeral because it brake checked a lorry.

The batteries will need to be replaced before FSD will be useful in the UK.

 

[Foucault]

I am really interested but I can't afford it right now. I have all my money tied up in the Brooklyn bridge and a unicorn farm.

Keeping on top of the unicorn rainbow poop really does eat into your finances

On a more serious note I can’t see it happening any time soon in the UK as they still haven’t rolled it out in the US despite promising for months. They are also getting pushback from US regulators, with the latest being the National Transportation Safety Board describing FSD as “misleading and irresponsible.”

 

[Jason71]

On a more serious note I can’t see it happening any time soon in the UK as they still haven’t rolled it out in the US despite promising for months. They are also getting pushback from US regulators, with the latest being the National Transportation Safety Board describing FSD as “misleading and irresponsible.”

whatever ties them up and keeps them from working on opening up the Supercharger network is fine with me

 

[Dilly]

A large part of the problem seems to be inconsistency. During my 300 mile round trip, I used AP, TACC and NoA wherever I could. (and sometimes where I shouldn’t…)
I passed large curtainsiders, went under dark bridges, encountered large shady spots and not once did I get a PB, even mildly. I always had my foot covering the throttle just in case. Even all my lane changes worked first time, every time.
Even when a car joined the carriageway beside me from a slip road nothing happened.
And yet, in another Tesla the results could be completely and alarmingly different.
On another drive somewhere else, I could easily be plagued.