like the title says I paid 7k for my FSD option with the hope that it will be full FSD soon but I am just wondering if, hypothetically speaking, full FSD gets approved tomorrow will TESLA still charge 7k or they will up the price to 10-15k?
They’d run the numbers and do what results in the highest income. So I’d guess increase to $9K after the announcement until the roll-out. Then keep it there while demand is strong, then decrease to $7K generating a new surge in demand. 6 months later I’d expect them to drop to $5K, with a short deadline for the lower price, then keep it at the lower price citing their conviction that FSD makes driving safer so keeping the lower price as sort of a public service. Here, there’ll be grousing. Then I’d expect the price to stay lower. More grousing. Then I’d expect Tesla to make FSD nontransferable, so abruptly ending when the car changes hands. Here a new big surge of grousing.
That’s a pipe dream, though. It won’t be approved tomorrow, next month, or next year. It’ll be a decade or more, most of us will have sold our cars by then. There’ll be new generations of Teslas newly fully capable of the FSD, then there will be our old cars, outdated, limited to a subset of the full FSD, but not hardware capable, nor upgradable to the full magnificent package.
But then, I’m a pessimist. I used to be an optimist. My optimism is eroded by each promise, each passing target deadline, and the slow shift from customer orientation to a profit based orientation.
I’m old. I only think I was an optimist. I’d probably be a pessimist now anyway, a real curmudgeon. I’d like to have a soft spot for Tesla in my stony heart, though. That spot is hardening. It’s calcium. Probably from my head, that’s getting softer.
I used to be a part of Tesla, not physically but in my mind. I was there, rooting for them, singing their praises. They are slowly becoming a big car company. They had to do it, they cannot lose money forever, so I do understand. Deep down I’d still rather they become a thriving company than a bankrupt one. I’ll need parts.