In a series of tweets today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked about future plans for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability. Notably, three weeks any more November 1, Tesla will undergo with a planned price increase for Full Self Driving software, increasing the worth by $1,000.
The software currently costs $6,000 as an option on any Tesla vehicle. This cost will rise to $7,000 at the tip of this month.
Despite the name, the “Full Self Driving” package doesn’t make any Tesla automobile actually able to driving itself with no human intervention. That capability is predicted to be rolled out over the course of the approaching years.
Tesla’s Full Self Driving option has received quite a lot of changes over the course of the last 12 months. Previously there was a differentiation between “Enhanced Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” packages, but now Tesla unbundled some Enhanced Autopilot features to make them standard, and wrapped the remainder of the features into the Full Self Driving package. Tesla describes the differences between the features on their website here.
Now that Tesla V10.0 with Smart Summon is out, Full Self-Driving price will increase by $1000 on Nov 1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2019
This price increase follows the recent release of Tesla’s “Smart Summon” feature as a part of the brand new V10 software. With this feature, owners can open the Tesla app and have their automobile come to them across a parking zone or other non-public road area, navigating at low speeds with no driver.
Tesla has committed to gradual price increases as more software capabilities get rolled out. Earlier this 12 months, Tesla planned to extend the worth in August, then postponed that increase until after the discharge of smart summon. Since smart summon is now out, Tesla goes forward with the promised increase.
In the long run, Musk has even stated that Tesla plans to stop selling cars at consumer-accessible prices once self-driving is solved, as he believes it should be more profitable for the corporate to run cars as taxis than to sell them to finish customers.
This all relies on the implementation of the Tesla Network, Tesla’s planned self-driving robotaxi fleet which owners will find a way to take part in. Musk thinks that owners will find a way to make a profession out of managing a fleet of robotaxis:
When the automobile is FSD without supervision, ie robotaxi, you’ll find a way to earn excess of monthly lease/loan cost by allowing others to make use of it. Managing a small fleet of robotaxis might be a profession for a lot of & a lot better than driving a single automobile.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2019
Tesla Network just isn’t currently implemented, and we don’t have a solid timeline on when it should be implemented (though Tesla says they wish to release a tesla network electrek.co prior to the robotaxi rollout). Tesla does keep moving forward on driver-assist features, but nothing the cars can do today can truly be called “self-driving.”
Musk also talked in regards to the promised “Hardware 3.0” upgrade, to put in Tesla’s recent “FSD Computer” into cars which have purchased Full Self Driving. The hardware inside these cars just isn’t currently able to running Tesla’s future self-driving software, but Tesla has engineered a rather more capable computer to permit for eventual advances.
Tesla recently began installing these retrofits in some cars, but it should take a while to get around to each automobile. Today, Musk mentioned the logistic problems involved with upgrading tens of hundreds of cars without putting undue stress on Tesla’s already-overtaxed service centers:
Working with engineering team to determine best method to do upgrade without crushing service team. Will start doing upgrades in volume in just a few months, coincident with more FSD features being released.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2019
On condition that these computers don’t actually provide a tangible profit in current cars yet, it’s no big deal to need to wait. Their enhanced computing power just isn’t yet getting used by the Full Self Driving system, since that software isn’t even enabled yet. So owners can have to attend patiently, and Tesla will reach out when these computers can be found.
Finally, Musk also hinted at an upcoming release. Autopilot currently cannot read street signs and traffic lights, though we all know that the software is able to distinguishing them. Some hackers have even managed to enable a development feature which enables cars to stop at stop lights on their very own.
When asked by one tweeter for word on when the automobile can have this capability in public release, Musk had a straightforward reply:
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2019