As long as you tell your insurance company about the upgrade they should cover it if/when your car is totaled. (Of course they may raise your premium as people have reported when they added EAP to their car.) Of course normally only covering comparable retail value, so whatever value FSD adds to a comparable used car is what you would get.
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Upgrade to FSD before increase?
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As long as you tell your insurance company about the upgrade they should cover it if/when your car is totaled. (Of course they may raise your premium as people have reported when they added EAP to their car.) Of course normally only covering comparable retail value, so whatever value FSD adds to a comparable used car is what you would get.
UncertainTimes
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In that case I hope they will take direct deposit from my paycheck
I’ll wait for next time. Owning a Tesla has taught me to be a very patient person.
Subscription service for $100/month? Yup I'd do it.
$10k for a primitive setup that won't transfer to my next car? No deal. Not even thinking about it.
$10k for a primitive setup that won't transfer to my next car? No deal. Not even thinking about it.
Mattopotamus
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No. As I said in a different thread, I think this is Tesla trying to get as many people to jump on the $8K price before they offer a subscription. They know at $10K very few new owners are going to add it. The fear of the price increase alone will probably net them a few hundred thousand.
Kognos
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Here's the problem I have with FSD a la carte ... not everyone has HW3.0 so they would have to provide a HW3.0 upgrade adhoc as well.
Mattopotamus
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The car useful life to first owner is 5 or 6 years typically
No doubt. The longer you wait to buy a Tesla the better experience you will have. Glad I jumped in 2018 just to experience the technology. BUT at this point, between battery day and the S price cuts I have now solidly entered the "Osborne" zone. I will shop Tesla cars again in 2022/23.
I don't see how that is relevant. The car's value doesn't drop to $0 because the first owner doesn't want it anymore...
Will not buy
The more expensive it gets, the less and less attractive it becomes.
The more expensive it gets, the less and less attractive it becomes.
Its certainly relevant because the first owner is looking at the cost over 5-6 years, for some that might be 4 years. You might get some back in resale, you might not. How much is the car with FSD worth to someone that doesn't want FSD? 0 extra for FSD. Then take someone who gets the car 7 months old Iike I did and now are 15 months in or so. I should still pay the same price? That unfortunately is not how it works in the real world. You buy a used card, the options are depreciated with the car.
Exactly. I bought mine when it was $5k. My sales rep told me over and over again the price would go up. I don't know if they get commission on that sale but man, $5k was an incredible waste of money. $10k is comical.
Can’t see how it is worth 10k, especially if you live in a snowy weather state. There is no FSD is ready for the snow or even rain storms yet, so in NE Ohio, how much use would you get out of it. Love the option and idea, but think it is a ways off yet.
You can upgrade your wife?! Is this part of the FSD package only in Germany?
Mattopotamus
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How many Tesla owners do you think will actually keep their cars 10+ years? These are people that are generally on the cutting edge of technology. Obviously there are some, but I doubt many paid for FSD with the assumption they will have the same Tesla in 15-20 years.
Yep, thanks for asking
Oh yes, its part of the stepford wifes FSD program, I sure you have it in the states, or coming soon.
What Tesla should really be concerned about is the guy who buys FSD at the beginning and then puts the car in the garage and says make it work 20 years later when they might have FSD finally working. Has Tesla thought about the fact that these current cars probably aren't capable of doing real FSD?
He also said there will be a $25K car that will include FSD. Go figure...
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