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Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for (electrek.co)
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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Supervised self driving would be fine. "Full self driving" means SAE level 4 or 5, which the Tesla autopilot isn't, and they don't need "supervised" in the name as they are specifically for a situations where there simply is no driver - like a robotaxi - so there can be no supervision.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Autopilot and FSD are completely different things.

FSD (Supervised) is not for situations where there is no driver - it’s for situations where the driver wants to just supervise while the car drives itself.

Where is this confusion around FSD and autopilot coming from all of a sudden?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

FSD (Supervised) is not for situations where there is no driver - it’s for situations where the driver wants to just supervise while the car drives itself.

The "(Supervised) Full Self Driving" isn't for situations where the car is Full Self Driving, because Tesla has no functionality that meets SAE level 3/4/5 requirements for Full Self Driving. If you must supervise the driving, then it's not full self driving.
Not a confusing naming at all.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If you must supervise the driving, then it’s not full self driving

You’re just making your own rules up now lol. You also don’t seem to understand what “supervised” means, nor the laws around cars and drivers. Teslas FSD is in use on roads now. Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising, even if they literally never have to do a single thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-are-in-a-growing-number-of-cities-heres-everything-to-know/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago

A single company has been allowed to have their cars operate. Big difference to regular people’s cars being able to drive around by themselves at the owners will.