I was an early adopter and…
I was an early adopter and purchased FSD in 2019 on a lease under the promise that FSD would be coming in months and sales people stating there were talks of transferability. I thought of the car as a rolling iPhone and I’d upgrade every couple of years. Well, that promise never was fulfilled in the time I owned the car, neither was the transferability.
Personally, I believe that FSD should be portable, and tied to the driver profile. All modern Teslas have the hardware, this is doable, and to be honest, I think there may be a legal argument for instances where it’s added after to achieve a tax credit as a separate purchase. The only reason to play the games the way they do is greed. And to be honest, while I love the cars, the company is awful, and probably one of the worst at a corporate level. Their price manipulation has screwed thousands of customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Not just on FSD. I backed out of a Plaid I ordered with a sale price of $148k, that they dropped to $105k within a year, combine that with their price induced depreciation up to 25% in a year, that car was worth $70k in two years. Owners should be pissed. And this is coming from someone who is on their third Tesla, and currently owns two, and plans on buying another. Great hardware and software, but poor customer service and practices.