Other than on the
actual purchase page they promise nothing of the sort.
Here's what you're shown as
actually buying on the
actual page you buy it
Note there's no video- nor any link to one. Just a specific list of features you're actually buying when you check that Select Option button.
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Design Your Model 3 | Tesla
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I can't speak for anyone else, but before I order anything I look at the actual product page. It's on the product page that it describes Autopilot along with FSD. It's on that page that Tesla shows the video of hands free driving. All the video does is confirm that FSD really means full self driving. Next to that video is the "All Tesla vehicles have the hardware needed in the future for full self-driving in almost all circumstances, at a safety level we believe will be at least twice as good as the average human driver." text.
At this point in the process what do I expect? I expect just what it says, and what the video shows. The level of safety is the only one I'm left wondering about since it uses the soft "we believe" word choice.
So I click the order page on the bottom to get me to the order page which you're fond of.
The disclaimers is really what we have to pay attention to if we care not about what the car can do today, but what the car can do long term.
The first one is a warning that the price for FSD will likely increase over time with new feature releases. It's a nice use of fear to induce someone to buy.
The second one says the features currently active are L2, and to get beyond L2 (as in autonomous) requires "achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers a demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions".
That's going to throw me a bit because the other page only said 2X which isn't far in excess, and if I'm European I might click away to a VW/Audi/Porsche offering because I know regulatory is going to be a massive hurdle in my country. I'm an American though so the regulatory disclaimer doesn't phase me one bit.
Why do I so thoroughly reject the milestones under FSD?
Because only one of them is met (in the US), and yet Tesla makes it look like they have been met. That's extremely dangerous because they have customers like you convinced that they're not promising anything more, and the OP's experience with it has them convinced that FSD won't go up in price.
Someone like me will see that they watered down the milestone, but I won't see it as promising less. Instead its simplifying things in a methodical process towards a goal like what's been happening with Traffic Light and Stop Sign control. It's extremely watered down, but at least it does what it says. In fact Traffic Light and Stop Sign control is the only thing I give a passing grade on. Not because it's all that useful yet.
Here is my pass/fail grading of what's been delivered. Anything that performs worse than an average driver is a failure.
NoA: Fail
Auto Lane Change: Fail
Auto Park: Fail
Summon: Fail
Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control: Pass (limited testing, but its proven more reliable than all the other stuff so far)
The reason why 4 out of 5 of them suck is they require development well beyond what is currently there.