cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/28973805
Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for.
Instead, they will get a year of ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’.
When Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023, the software was incomplete, especially regarding its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) features like ‘Supervised (FSD) Full Self-Driving’, which was included in the price of all early Cybertrucks.
It took Tesla almost a year to start releasing its FSD on the Cybertruck.
After Tesla stopped making new Cybertruck Foundation Series, which are fully loaded with all options, buyers started to have the option of buying the $8,000 FSD package or keeping only the Autopilot package, which is included in the price.
Autopilot’s two main features are Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer. The first is self-explanatory, while Autosteer is Tesla’s name for active lane keeping.
The vast majority of Tesla vehicle owners don’t buy the FSD package.
As of now, 16 months after Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, the automaker has yet to deliver Autosteer on the electric pickup truck.
Today, Tesla started reaching out to Cybertruck owners to let them know that it won’t make Autosteer available for Cybertruck owners who haven’t bought FSD:
“As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for Cybertruck outside of Full Self-Driving (Supervised).“
Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.
More details in the article.
My favorite part is how they’re now saying both "full self-driving’ and “supervised”.
Archive link: https://archive.is/1w64R
Supervised Full Self Driving? Thats just an oxymoron
Whats next Tesla??? Manual autopilot? Jumbo shrimp? Deafening silence?
Yes they actually made the case to a judge that “Full Self Driving” is a brand name and does in fact not imply Level 5 self driving as defined by SAE. People might expect Level 5 upon hearing the name, as Level 5 is called “Full driving automation” and has the car drive itself. Tesla is however only at Level 2 “Partial driving automation”. Most brands are level 2, with level 3 on the horizon and something like Waymo has level 4.
Most of those lawsuits never went anywhere because when you buy a Tesla you have to sign away the right to sue them. Which is smart given how much they lie to customers. There is still a class action suit in the works however.
It’s also a farce Elon Musk isn’t in jail for being a serial liar to investors and manipulating their stocks. People have been banned from holding such positions and put in jail for far less.
As someone that doesn’t drive a car, I will consider a vehicle to be full self driving when people that can’t drive will be able to use them without a driver’s licence.
“Sorry for the vaporware, here’s some vaporware.”
Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.
That actually seems like a decent deal… do we have any evidence that cybertrucks can physically last more than a year?
They can call it “lifetime FSD” (for the life of the vehicle)
Cybertruck owner: Turns on FSD Cybertruck: Immediately crashes
“Life of the vehicle.”
Buy the ticket, take the ride!
