...Do you know of any instance of someone walking up to their car in the morning and finding a software option they had purchased removed?...
Please read the citation in message #4 above:
The victim described exactly your scenario above:
"I had my M3 parked in my buddy's driveway for a few days while on vacation and noticed nav on autopilot wasn't working when i went to pick it up. I soon realized i lost all fsd capabilities. No updates were installed or anything."
I had my M3 parked in my buddy's driveway for a few days while on vacation and noticed nav on autopilot wasn't working when i went to pick it up. I soon realized i lost all fsd capabilities. No updates were installed or anything. Spoke with Tesla support and she told me she had another owner...
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Multiple owners paid for FSD but only lost the description of FSD on the account and later was reinstated after the complaints. These owners never lost the actual function of FSD.
However, there were multiple others who bought the FSD and were able to use the FSD fine. Then both the description of FSD on the account and the function of FSD were taken away without warnings.
Those people were offered to pay FSD again at the bargain price of $6,000 in addition to what they already paid for FSD.
Tesla challenged their stories that FSD were paid:
"Will you provide me with an invoice where it states you purchased the Full Self Driving, along with a screenshot of your financial institution showing that we took the amount for the Full Self Driving?"
It indeed acknowledged the mistake after all:
"Not the best news, but news nonetheless today. I have been informed that there is a case for this issue that multiple customers are experiencing with their MyTesla accounts and the FSD status. We are filling the information for all the affected accounts and currently investigating the solution. At this point I have been informed there is no fix but you are on the list when the issue is resolved to receive that resolution."
That's the problem of repossession without going through the proper legal channel. This could have been prevented if they first notified the victims so they could send them the proofs of purchase rather than pulling the rugs with no warnings.