Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for
Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for
Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for. Instead, they will...
Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for.
Instead, they will get a year of ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’.
When Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023, the software was incomplete, especially regarding its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) features like ‘Supervised (FSD) Full Self-Driving’, which was included in the price of all early Cybertrucks.
It took Tesla almost a year to start releasing its FSD on the Cybertruck.
After Tesla stopped making new Cybertruck Foundation Series, which are fully loaded with all options, buyers started to have the option of buying the $8,000 FSD package or keeping only the Autopilot package, which is included in the price.
Autopilot’s two main features are Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer. The first is self-explanatory, while Autosteer is Tesla’s name for active lane keeping.
The vast majority of Tesla vehicle owners don’t buy the FSD package.
As of now, 16 months after Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, the automaker has yet to deliver Autosteer on the electric pickup truck.
Today, Tesla started reaching out to Cybertruck owners to let them know that it won’t make Autosteer available for Cybertruck owners who haven’t bought FSD:
“As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for Cybertruck outside of Full Self-Driving (Supervised).“
Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.
More details in the article.
My favorite part is how they're now saying both "full self-driving' and "supervised".
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Buy from a con-man, get conned. Whoop-de-doo-de-doo.
Isn't Supervised Full Self-Driving an oxymoron? How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?
It can't be both. It's not self-driving. That's just what they call it to oversell it. I'm assuming they had to add the "Supervised" part for legal reasons.
They should get fined for being ambiguous and be forced to call it what it is.
Supervised Full Self-Driving seems like a euphemism for driving with a driving instructor. You fully drive yourself but someone supervises you while you do it.
Parentheses, duh.
The actual answer: It should be Level 4 autonomy. It is capable of full self driving, but only in certain conditions.
Do note that Tesla autopilot is actually only SAE level 2, so it's just a straight up lie :)
Its because Elon Musk is an oxy moron
Fully man... fully.
Lmao they put lane-keeping assist behind a marketing-wank paywall for their already expensive EVs - something manufacturers like Subaru and Hyundai has made standard across their entire line for years now
What a sad joke this company has become, another example of failed leadership valuing yes-men and sycophancy
I rode in a 2019 Subaru Ascent (like a big Outback) a few years ago, the lane keep assist was great even back then, not to mention the blind spot monitoring and all that. and it was all included. wtf is Tesla even doing with all that time and money??
I love mine. Combined with adaptive cruise, it’s amazing for slowly rolling traffic, longer journeys, and stop-and-go traffic. I’m under no impression the car is ‘driving’ but having a machine take over the mental load is great and frees up that capacity for other driving tasks and/or awareness of the road.
Tesla calling that technology “Auto” anything without it being genuinely 100% autonomous should have landed someone a fat fine or jail time
It’s going to Elon Musk bank account.
My base model 2019 Sonata has pretty decent blind spot monitoring too. A couple of days after I got the car it's blind spot monitoring saw a speeding vehicle going too fast for me to see it coming (they turned off of another street a handful of houses up then must've floored the gas) as I was backing out and went flying past. It literally saw the speeding car through another vehicle and gave me enough warning to stop safely.
Sometimes it does yell at me that a fence is present at the edge of the lane I'm merging into, but it's just alerting beeping that can be disabled with 1 physical button press so it's very useful for rush hour beltline driving, even if I have yet to have it spot a vehicle I haven't in any other situations
Hyundai Lanekeep is better than teslas too
It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.
It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.
I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck's sake.
Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.
I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.
Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.
Tesla is the Fyre Festival of automotive manufacturers, except in this case Billy has managed to keep the kite in the air for an astonishingly long time.
Class action goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I’m sure there’s some bullshit fine print about binding arbitration. It’s so cool that corporations can just say “we waive your fundamental rights because we feel like it” and it’s just…legal. Greatest country on earth.
So besides Trump and Musk being passionate fuck buddies, how is this legal? Surely this is fraud and deceit right?
A fine is just a fee for breaking the law.
'bait-and-switch' They'll really call it anything but fraud huh.
Tesla commits ‘oopsie-daisy’. Cybertruck makes a ‘big boo-boo’.
every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society
umm... good? This might actually might have saved some lives.
By not delivering lane-keeping? I appreciate the unreasoning hatred, but some reasoning would be good too.
I mean concidering Tesla lost the EU market, it's likely this will go unchallenged. but yes shitty but expected from the company.
Cybertruck isn't allowed in the EU anyway so our regulatory agencies and courts have no power over it. Plus they could just enable it in EU and keep disabled in US if there was a verdict in the EU court system that they have to honor their original terms.
🤡
They do this to juice the gross margin number and make the auto business appear more profitable.
Despite that people love to talk about Tesla and also cybertrucks, this is reminder to never buy anything for promised features. If you wouldn't be happy with the existing features just don't buy it.
Oh well, atleast they are making bank running the Tesla as automated robo taxis while they aren't using them like Elon promised.
Shame on you if you still believe promises made by Tesla 😂 They are kinda like promises made by Trump 😆
Yes, yes sir, I've found the terrorist, right there! /s
Terrorism! Everything I don't like is terrorism!
Autostreer to far right might sound good to some (apparently??) but it's an issue in actual traffic.
I don't feel bad for anyone that was dumb enough to buy Elon's crappy products.
Aww, poor babies
FSD? Fake Self Driving? False Self Driving? F#@& Says Driver?
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