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My take on the "history of computer processing power" comment. I am getting the iPhone X and even though computers are getting cheaper it is the most expensive iPhone to date. Also, memory upgrades on iPhones are always much more expensive then they are to make. I would be shocked to see FSD being cheaper just because computers are cheaper per compute power of the chip. I did buy FSD for $3,000 on 9/28/17. When I ordered it said it would be $4,000 if I bought after delivery. But my understanding was the $4,000 was not a fixed number for the life of my ownership of the car. From the beginning I felt I definitely wanted FSD (or any part of it like stop lights etc) and did not want to to pay $4,000+ later. I also felt that they may need to replace my hardware (and I have AP 2.5) and wanted to make sure I would/could get that upgrade. Of course, they could come back to us and say "sorry" but we can not deliver FSD on your car and here is your money back (or something else). But, I think if you do not buy it up front and they for some reason feel it is not worth it to upgrade the hardware and add the software for only $4,000 then I would expect it to be more to get the feature.
I realize the cost to manufacture hardware for FSD vehicles will decline overtime but I don’t see that being the reason for setting FSD pricing. The expense in my opinion is in all the man hours it’s taken Teala to get HW 2.0 & 2.5 to its current state and the hundreds of thousands more hours of teala engineers to get Teala vehicles to FSD. Not to mention, it’s a little scary to think that something your paying for that has your life in its hands (FSD) becoming cheaper. Seems like just the liability alone by Tesla is enough to keep the FSD feature to continue to increase as the more miles in FSD the greater the likelihood of lawsuits, IMHO.