In Sweden the price stayed the same even though Autopilot was included (and even though the incentives actually increased). If you are buying a P they even lowered the price a lot and it now costs only $3.5k more than a LR AWD. So it seems depending on which market you are in.
What extra does FSD add over autopilot for commuting today? Autopilot does what I would do on a normal commute, you get on the highway and stay there with enough traffic that dashing back and forth between lanes isn’t useful, once you get off neither FSD or autopilot can handle the roundabouts and such that are there anyway. Once FSD let’s me not pay attention on the highway then it for sure have a use case, but when will that be? Since my car is nearing 6 months old already they would have to release legal to use level 3 within a year at the most for me to get any actual use of buying FSD, will they do that?
The interesting part will be now that UNECE has come out with their regulations regarding level 3 driving assistance systems for highways (although limited to operating below 60 km/h at start so only useful in traffic). Will Tesla be a part of that or do they not yet have enough faith in their system to accept liability? It seems Audi has a system where they are ready for that so it will be very interesting to see which manufacturers are in the first wave of legal to use level 3.
I think this is where the value is relative to the user. My commute situation is 95% highway. I drive 2 easy miles to the highway. The traffic is high speed, then a bottleneck for busy exits, then high speed. So one can definitely safely switch multiple lanes, then sit bumper to bumper at slower speeds, then switch lanes again.
So far me switching lanes is HUGE. If I had to sit in one lane and/or disengage AP every time I switched lanes I’d have a stroke. I have no roundabouts. Once I get off the highway my destination is literally at the off ramp light.
So on a roughly 30 minute commute I now drive MAYBE 5 minutes of it. That’s 50 minutes less per day, times years. Not including any road family road trips or regular chore driving. I’m satisfied with the quality of life improvement.
Like I said previously, any updates from here on out, for me, are icing on the cake. I’d prefer higher level autonomy on highways BEFORE city driving and/or turning to be honest. Becuase that’s what most of my driving is. 60km/h is too slow, but if it was basic highway speed of 55mph I’d be content getting some places slower. I care a lot less about the speed when I’m not driving, hahaha.