Serious questions, not trolling:
Was there ever an explicit promise that AP1 would be able to do FSD? If not, what SAE level did Tesla promise AP1 would provide?
When did self driving become an option on the configuration tool on their website? Was it only after October, 2016?
The reason I'm asking is that my vague sense of the narrative regarding Teslas before I became an owner (and before I was cruising forums like this one) was that well before October 2016 the cars were going to be able to ultimately do FSD. I asked some non-Tesla obsessed friends who had the same perception. That seems to run counter to what I'm seeing on the Mobileye website where they are saying that they are at Level 2 currently and going even to just Level 3 will be difficult. They go on to say that they will hit Level 5 in 2019 or 2021 depending on how you interpret the following statement:
"Our automaker partners currently use Mobileye technology to support Level 1 and Level 2 ADAS systems. Over the last two years, development work on higher-level vehicles has accelerated. Mobileye is working with our partners BMW and Intel Corp. to put a fully autonomous vehicle into serial production beginning in 2021. Mobileye also recently partnered with Delphi Automotive to create an autonomous platform for use by many automobile manufacturers by 2019."
source:
Enabling Autonomous - Mobileye
The tidy "soundbite" way they describe the SAE levels 3-5 on the site - Level 3 autonomous is “eyes off,” Level 4 is “mind off” and Level 5 is “driver off.” - definitely leaves my AP2 vehicle as Level 2 because there's no way in heck I'd ever take my eyes off of what the car is up to at any point except for a quick second when I'm dealing with plowing through a couple of menus to do something like trying to turn my steering wheel heater on.
Craig