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Re:Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to suppo... by websites2022 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @11:06AM (#27873540)
> They told you it had hardware that could support a full self-driving system that is safer than a human.

And this turned out to not be true, because if it were, they would have released FSD on this hardware.

Just imagine if Microsoft sold you PC hardware that they claimed would support windows 11 back in 2016, but now require a processor upgrade to support it. This is exactly the same situation.

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Re:Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to suppo... by alisonkisk on Sunday July 18, 2021 @12:00PM (#27873995)
it's more like selling you an Xbox and then never releasing any games, and then selling Xbox 360 and games.

the original can (theoretically) play games, but no one with a license wrote any.

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Re:Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to suppo... by websites2022 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @12:15PM (#27874112)
Except there is no 3rd party license to make software for Tesla. To make your metaphor apt, it would have to be “Selling you an Xbox that they claim can play Witcher 3 but then requiring you to buy Xbox 360 to play it.”
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Re:Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to suppo... by ErikVandeWater on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:02PM (#27875529)
Solid analogy.
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