Tesla, the manufacturer of electric cars, has increased the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software upgrade option to $ 10,000. This follows the start of the staged rollout of a beta version of the software update recently. Earlier this month, Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of the company promised there was going to be a price hike.
The FSD option has been available as an optional add-on to complement Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance technology, even though the features themselves have not been available to Tesla owners before the launch of the beta this month. Even still, it is only in limited beta, but this is the closest Musk and Tesla have come to actually launching something under the FSD moniker — after having teased a fully autonomous mode in production Teslas for years now.
Self-driving cars are vehicles that are automated to sense the environment and to drive safely without human input.
Tesla’s FSD is not what will be considered as having full autonomy according to top standards set by most working on the self-driving system. Musk has designed it as vehicles having the ability “to be autonomous but requiring supervision and intervention at times.”
Still, the technology does appear impressive in some ways according to early user feedback — though testing any kind of self-driving software unsupervised via the general public does seem an incredibly risky move. Musk has said that we should see a wide rollout of the FSD tech beyond the beta before year’s end, so he definitely seems confident in its performance.
The price increase might be another sign of Musk and the company’s confidence.
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