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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".

Archive link: https://archive.is/1w64R

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope every single person who has, or ever will, buy a cybertruck a lifetime of misery and misfortune

May they stub their toe on every step for the rest of their life

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But also may they sue for false advertising and cost Tesla legal fees and result in them being obligated to provide these services for free.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DOGE already defunded that government department.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nah thats the government's ability to regulate.

He hasn't defunded the courts, so private lawsuits can occur. (At least he hasn't as of today, maybe he will tomorrow)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

'bait-and-switch' They'll really call it anything but fraud huh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Tesla commits ‘oopsie-daisy’. Cybertruck makes a ‘big boo-boo’.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean concidering Tesla lost the EU market, it's likely this will go unchallenged. but yes shitty but expected from the company.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

interesting, I wasn't aware it wasn't allowed sale.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is a rolling safety hazard. Have they done any crash tests with pedestrians?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, it obliterated them and passed the test.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The passing requirements seem to differ vastly by region.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shame on you if you still believe promises made by Tesla 😂 They are kinda like promises made by Trump 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, yes sir, I've found the terrorist, right there! /s

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This tesla coil is a downward spiral!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They do this to juice the gross margin number and make the auto business appear more profitable.

https://wccftech.com/tesla-plans-to-record-1-billion-in-fsd-related-deferred-revenue-over-the-next-12-months/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Goddamn even full ass vehicles are going the early access lifecycle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Autostreer to far right might sound good to some (apparently??) but it's an issue in actual traffic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

FSD? Fake Self Driving? False Self Driving? F#@& Says Driver?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Aww, poor babies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

hey look your shitty truck that isn't the truck is going to be shitty

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