Tesla: the price of the Full Self-Driving feature (still) increases, but for Elon Musk its true value is at least 100 thousand euros

Source: HW Upgrade added 31st Oct 2020

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Already increased steadily over the last two years, the price of the Full Self-Driving functionality now comes to 10 thousand dollars

by Andrea Bai published , at 10 : 31 in the Technology channel

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The functionality “Full Self-Driving” of Tesla cars, which currently goes to enable automatic driving capabilities such as lane changing and parking, now has a cost of 10 thousand dollars , or $ 2,000 compared to the list price previously charged.

This is a price increase that currently only affects the United States market, where the Full Self-Driving feature has just been released in the form of a limited beta and allows the use of the advanced driving assistance features of Autopilot also on local roads.

Now that Tesla FSD beta is out in limited release, FSD price (new or upgrade) will go up by ~ $ 2k on Monday

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2020

The price increase was announced by the CEO of company, Elon Musk , via Twitter in the past week. Then he had also specified that a price increase of the same order of magnitude would also be applied on other markets with the progressive spread of beta. Musk also said he is planning a “large release” of the feature before the end of the year.

Full Self-Driving: worth at least 100 thousand euros according to Elon Musk

Although the name may be misleading, in reality Full Self-Driving mode still requires constant driver supervision, and Tesla herself insists that the driver must watch the road and keep your hands on the wheel when the feature is active. “It could do the wrong thing at the worst time,” Tesla says to persuade the user to use it correctly.

The Full Self-Driving option has undergone over the last two years a constant price increase : in May of 2019 went from 5000 dollars to 6000 dollars, and then increase to 7000 dollars in November and get to 8000 dollars in June. But these price increases are, according to Musk, irrelevant to the true value that users could squeeze out of this technology: according to the visionary CEO of Tesla, in fact, once the cars are able to drive on their own they will be able to work as a fleet of robotaxi, allowing owners to earn money while not using them. According to Musk the true value of the Full Self-Driving functionality is “ higher than 100 thousand dollars “.