Tesla plans a 25% price increase for its premium driver assistance systems that are available in the U.S.
FSD currently costs $12,000 with a $199 per month subscription. Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not immediately specify whether subscription prices would also increase.
The electric vehicle maker is also releasing a new version of its FSD beta software, version 10.69 that allows everyday drivers to test new driver assistance system features on public roads before they are fully debugged.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday announced a 25% price increase for the company’s premium driver assistance system, which is marketed as full self-driving, or FSD.
Elon Musk said in a tweet that the price will increase from $12,000 to $15,000 on September 5. Tesla charges $12,000 for FSD, or $199 per month depending on the subscription.
Elon Musk did not immediately increase the cost of an FSD subscription, and Tesla did not respond to a request for more information. All new Tesla vehicles come with a standard driver assistance package called Autopilot which includes features like traffic-aware cruise control and Autosteer.
These Teslas rely on cameras, other sensor hardware and software to keep the vehicle centered in its lane and traveling at the speed of surrounding traffic. Tesla’s top-priced driver assistance options (FSDs) include what the company calls traffic and stop signs. Navigate controls and features on Autopilot.
More advanced features are intended to automatically detect and slow Tesla cars for traffic signals and signals, navigating the highway from on-ramp to off-ramp, changing turn signals to lanes and including exits.
Tesla called on drivers to be careful and prepared to handle the steering and braking of their cars when using Autopilot, or FSD. Its technology doesn’t make Tesla vehicles autonomous.
A Tesla feature called Smart allows drivers to use a smartphone and the Tesla Mobile app like a remote control to call their car from a parking spot and drive slowly behind the wheel.
While some FSD features are also included in a lower-priced option called Enhanced Autopilot, or EAP, only Tesla customers who purchase or subscribe to the premium option can request access to the FSD beta, an experimental Tesla system.
FSD beta users must obtain a high security score from Tesla to gain and maintain access to the system. Tesla’s approach has drawn criticism and regulatory scrutiny from National Highway Traffic Safety and the California Department of Motor Vehicles alike.
The company is going ahead and releasing the latest version of the FSD beta in a limited way to a relatively small pool of users, Musk also tweeted on Sunday.
He wrote on Twitter that there are several major code changes, so this will be an additional cautious rollout release for 1000 Tesla owners from 8/20 to 10.69.1 and 10.69 from 8/20 to accommodate feedback and then 10 thousand customers after the release.2 will be released. For the week and the rest of the FSD beta.
Owners who have access to the FSD beta can send feedback to the company via their cars when the system fails or malfunctions. Tesla previously said that 100,000 drivers have already installed the FSD beta.
Tesla plans to make FSD beta more mainstream At the Tesla 2022 annual shareholder meeting on August 4, Musk said that FSD beta will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year. The citation of the Thomson financial meeting transcript is gone.
We’re still very much eyeing the FSD beta for widespread deployment in North America this year, so I should basically say that FSD will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year.
Among those receiving the limited-release update this weekend is a widely-followed social media influencer who sells Tesla merchandise and plays ad-supported videos on YouTube channels where they talk about Tesla’s latest releases and more. share information in.
NHTSA has launched 38 investigations into collisions, which involved a Tesla vehicle where driver assistance systems, including Autopilot and more advanced systems, were considered a factor.
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