If it costs a serious chunk of change to order the full suite of new hardware, but full autonomy may be years away due to various factors, what's the benefit of paying for the hardware now without all the functionality enabled? Would people who have cars in transit be better off just going through with their purchases rather than canceling and buying a new car with new hardware that has disabled four functions that already work with the current hardware? And by the time full autonomy is enabled and approved by regulators, would some of these owners be poised to buy new cars anyway (at which time paying for the enhanced hardware suite would also provide fully autonomous functionality)?
Am I missing something here or is this like buying an HDTV early on but not having any programming that can take advantage of the hardware? And by the time programming became available, you're already on to a new TV set?