CameronB
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Just curious - how much are you willing to pay for it? I don't really get the idea that people expect to get every feature going forward, even though they purchased an older product. What other company/product gives you free features in perpetuity even when your product is so old that it can't support the new features? Reading these postings and seeing how upset people get that they didn't get the same features for free as newer buyers - well, if i were Tesla, I would just quit offering updates for free because it upsets so many people (rather than customers viewing updates as a positive, they instead complain endlessly).
It's free! If it works, great. If not, oh well...
In general I agree that some Tesla owners feel extra entitled to upgrades that cross into hardware territory. If one gets the car/features s/he paid for, then they are 'square' with Tesla as far as I'm concerned. FSD and even Enhanced AutoPilot functionality vs much-repeated and much-missed timelines seems to me one of the few legitimate complaints where owners may not have gotten what they paid for/were promised. And a few other things like some of the horsepower claims of early Ludicrous cars. A handful of things.
But for the most part, people did get what they paid for...and then some. All the new features via OTA are gravy.
However, I could make a case for no dash cam/sentry mode for AP2 being a legitimate complaint as well. Why? Well, I remember a tweet from Elon where he said it would be available for "AP2+" cars. In the tech world (from which Elon definitely comes), this absolutely means "two point anything and higher" and would cover 2.0 and 2.5 cars. The second thing is what @verygreen pointed out: except for having B&W video, there doesn't seem to be any hardware limitations of actually providing dash cam/sentry mode recording. So I think people are unhappy (myself included) that they aren't getting a feature they perceive is possible just because Tesla decided to not include them because they had older cameras that couldn't do attractive color recording.
I would definitely pay to upgrade the cameras to the newer color ones if Tesla provided an upgrade path. While possible, I think the fact that they are working heads-down to reduce service center visits, I can't really see them wanting a bunch of AP2 people to come into service center to get some cheap camera upgrades.
Perhaps when it is time to roll out the FSD computer, and they do that with mobile service like they are predicting, maybe (maybe!) the ranger will have the option to also update the cameras. Either as part of the upgrade to FSD or perhaps as an optional (additional $) paid update if the owner wants them. Or maybe they will never offer such camera upgrades. I guess we will see.
In the meantime, I think "faux sentry mode" is still useful for "fleet immunity" and I certainly try to use it often to help with that.