75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behind subscriptions

Re:75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behin... by jerlam on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:25PM (#31197064)

I can think of one feature that I'd pick the subscription over the upfront cost: Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD). It's $12,000 or $200/month. Five years is the breakeven point, assuming that the prices stay the same (which is a bad assumption). $12k is a big chunk of change - could be around 10% of the car's value. There are also some question marks around whether the FSD is transferable to a new owner.

I've driven in a Tesla with FSD, and it's underwhelming. There's no guarantee that in five years, it will perform significantly better - maybe even require additional hardware or a newer car/platform.

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Re:75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behin... by t0mas88 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:52PM (#31197391)

Tesla "Full Self Driving" is vaporware so far.

In previous versions "Autopilot" as a name only implied self-driving to some customers, while it wasn't. Now they've gone a step further and branded advanced driver assist as FSD, which really isn't all that self driving at all.

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