Because groupthink and Musk as the superhero plus people not grounded in reality equals sheep running off the cliff. Consider of all the people here that ran to buy the FSD upgrade last time as it "was going to go up" then it went down, then up and now up again, all while it has been "feature complete". People will justify spending money on mostly useless upgrades and Musk will keep announcing a new hardware version. In the meantime count the disagrees for those that ran their CC to pay for small incremental buggy upgrades. I wonder when people are going to wake up to the reality of the Tesla "Spin the revenue wheel game". AP should cost less in Beta not more. When there are substantial upgrades then it may make sense to buy. In the meantime if no one fell for this the price would be DROPPING. Just like white paint that was "more costly" but now is standard. LOL. Once you paint your garage to look like a Tesla store you will beleive anything
And I see we have our first buyer..
Musk needs the help of a psychiatrist and Tesla's board needs to either fire him or stage a much needed intervention. After owning Model S for 7 years—witnessing first hand how badly Tesla has fallen in terms of sales & service and how poor their build quality is even today—I buy the stock over the car. Since buying my P85, supercharging rate has been reduced by at least 50% making roadtrips impossible. My acceleration has also been reduced. All intentionally through software updates. Tesla's response: Sue us. We 85 kWh owners are doing exactly that. My next EV will not be a Tesla.
Tesla/Musk promise a lot, but they also deliver a lot.
You mean like when Musk announced Autopilot, started taking peoples' money, but didn't deliver anything for over 12 months prompting complaints to multiple attorneys general across the country and threats of lawsuits?
Then why charge anything for it? Tesla uses your driving data to complete its development of FSD, yet you pay
them? This makes no sense.
But, for someone who started on AP1 and gone through the roller-coaster of AP2, ups and downs, parity with AP1 then NoA, and now city driving...
Only because you bought into Musk's scam. He's playing a confidence (con) came with the public.
Tesla is the only one providing to the general public a tangible product with a defined vision.
No they aren't. First, it is not a "tangible" product when it is beta-ware riddled with bugs that has already killed several people. GM offers a solid AP-type product. Audi offers it. Mercedes offers it. Every manufacturer offers it. I don't remember anyone dying because of their products, only Tesla's. Because Tesla's implementation is sloppy and borderline criminally negligent.
Why is a "defined vision" important in any sense? You won't be able to participate in that vision two years from now because Tesla will change the game on you in terms of hardware/software. They will leave you out in the cold like they do everyone, eventually.
Something that anyone that "bought into it" can tag along and experience for themselves on a daily basis.
Not the vision, just the crapware. The vision won't be realized for many years. Until then, are you going to keep giving Tesla free money? Sounds insane to me.
That is not something you can do with any other company working on Autonomous Cars today.
Do you need autonomy? Probably not. The vast majority don't need it or want it. I certainly don't. I have no interest in trusting a machine to steer and drive for me. If I wanted to put my life in a child's hands, there are many other ways of doing it that won't result in a collision at 80 MPH.
To be clear, I don't give a crap about autonomy. I don't need or want to be a passenger behind the wheel. And if I ever do, I want a feature that has been safety tested and that has proper controls for driver attention. Tesla's implementation fails on all fronts.
Even when buying my first Tesla with AP1, the order page said Autopilot will improve with over-the-air updates. And sure enough, it did improve with over-the-air updates.
When a company release software that doesn't work, one can only go up from there. Other manufacturers don't release half-baked products. They release products that are feature complete, that have undergone a much more rigorous testing regime than Tesla would ever be capable of creating.
Eventually, even ardent Tesla worshippers will come to the conclusion that Musk cannot be trusted and that he doesn't have his customers best interests at heart.