Tesla know full well that having to re-enable autopilot whenever you change lanes is annoying. They were hoping people would find it annoying enough to cough up for FSD using man math to justify it.
As FSD has climbed in price they introduced EAP just under what FSD used to cost, hoping that half baked party tricks like summon would be enough to make us justify paying for auto lane change.
It’s outright greed and I suspect it has backfired.
I seriously believe they would make more money at $2k (which is all it’s worth) as more than 3x as many people would buy it than at $6k. It’s a software switch that costs them nothing.
I understand charging a premium for FSD and the computing power and work that goes into improving it, and while it is not worth $15k in its current form, it will be worth a lot more than that when it works properly.
But EAP for $6k is a ripoff.