Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Raise Price of “Full Self-Driving” Driver Assistance to $12,000

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In a series of posts on Twitter, where he has 69.2 million followers, Musk wrote, “Tesla FSD price rising to $12k on Jan 17. Just in the US.”

When a follower asked him about Tesla's FSD subscription product Musk noted,"Monthly subscription price will rise when FSD goes to wide release." He also teased a new release of FSD Beta, an invitation-only program which offers more advanced features to select drivers who meet Tesla's qualifications.does not disclose in its earnings reports exactly how many of its customers pay for FSD up-front or subscribe to FSD each quarter.

The company's standard driver assistance package is marketed as Autopilot and comes standard with all its new vehicles . Autopilot functionality includes but is not limited to automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, lane keeping and adaptive cruise control, which basically matches the speed of your car to that of the surrounding traffic, according to Tesla'sTesla's Full-Self Driving option, also known as FSD, is a premium package that includes the Autopilot functions, and more sophisticated features like automatic lane-changing, stop light recognition, and"smart summon" which...

But Musk has implied the company's technology is more advanced than level 2. In an interview published on December 28, 2021,Lex Fridman asked Musk,"When do you think Tesla will solve Level 4 FSD?" Musk replied,"It's looking quite likely that it'll be next year," meaning 2022. Tesla has been promising self-driving cars since around 2016 but the company still hasn't demonstrated the hands-free drive across the US that Elon Musk said would be possible by the end of 2017.

 

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