We'll see about that. With frequent software updates, you don't really know what Teslas on the road today will be doing 6, 12, 18, 24 months from now.

Which, one could argue, opens up a new front for Tesla on configuration management. This is bad enough for hardware and poses already a problem regarding spare parts. Add the additional layer of software that might or might not work with a certain hardware config and this problem increases exponentially.

I'd live to see the Tesla announcement that from today on they will focus exclusively on X because of Y and the measureable and benefits will A, B and C til date D.

But all we get is "full self-driving next year" and "fleet of autonomous robo-taxis".

Mentioning configuration management, that's something Apple is really good at... it will be fascinating to see what comes out of their efforts eventually.

I almost prefer their approach of keeping things under wraps until they are ready, rather than pre-teasing stuff that might happen later than predicted.

To be fair to Tesla, they are not saying we will have full self driving next year... it is Elon making a prediction, not a promise, and he couched it many ways. Full self driving for Tesla development cars, basically, and robo-taxis possibly by the end of next year, with safety drivers, if you listen to what he said in response to an audience question... so his actual statements are pretty far removed from what you have dressed up as "quotes" right there.