FSD Worth Buying Now

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Are you suggesting Tesla is going to keep FSD Transfers forever? Making buying FSD outright more attractive? That would be nice, but I’m not sure that’s what this message confirms.

If Full Self Driving was a one-time cost that was linked to the driver/owned vehicle, then I'd be all for it.

It’s only transferable if you buy within a month… still not worth it

It’s saying if you have FSD purchased on a Tesla you already own, it can be transferred to a new one by that date

Can you break it down a by example. I’m confused

Doesn’t apply to older Tesla’s ?

Invest 8k in the stock market (VOO). Pay 100 per month. There is no breakeven point. Ever. It’s a mirage. In fact as time goes on the cost of buying goes up compared to a sub. It’s simple math. Opportunity cost on 8k is no joke.

If you currently own a Tesla that has FSD payed for already and you buy another one within the timeframe until 31. March you can take that FSD packages from the old car to the new one without buying it again. Afterwards this will no longer be possible AFAIK.

This is assuming that the inevitable affordability crises isn't going to crash the market at some point.

It's not $8K for everyone. Only $2K for me, and I bought it last week and will be transferring to a new purchase next month.

You know, I didn’t consider that. Assuming your money roughly doubles every decade at a 7% return, you’d have 16k by the end and have paid 12k in subscription costs. Interesting because if they charged 5k like they did when I first bought my car, the math flips.

> if they charged 5k Wasn't that as an add-on to Enhanced Auto Pilot (EAP)? So you'd pay $5K to upgrade from AP to EAP, and then pay $2K - $5K to upgrade from EAP to FSD. For a total of $7K - $10K.

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He - or a previous owner of the vehicle - has already purchased Tesla's Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) option for about $5K. This was an intermediate feature sitting between Autopilot and FSD and is no longer available for purchase. Those who have EAP can update to FSD for $2K.

It was actually 6k outright. No EAP as that was killed before I bought my car. Folks with legacy EAP could upgrade for less. 2-3k perhaps?

Aha - maybe one of those end-of-quarter incentives. That was a nice discount.

As /u/skriefal said, I bought enhanced autopilot when I bought the car new back in 2018. So for me it is an upgrade price of only $2K to go from EAP to FSD.

If was really FULL self drive and included the insurance for when it crashes the car then maybe.

We have very different definitions of “worth it,” lol. But I agree if you’re planning to upgrade within a month anyway and want FSD for your next car and don’t care about a lifetime subscription, it’s a great deal.

I’m just going off historical averages if you can reliably predict anything otherwise then you will be rich.

Confused. Very new here, but if FSD is a subscription at $99/yr, what is there to transfer?

How is the upgraded experience goin? Any issues in the rain?

The market will always have crashes, hell we just had one 6 years ago. Then not even 2 years later there was an 8 month long downturn. And we nearly had another crash last year before policy got changed last minute. The AI bubble and affordability crisis will be the next crashes barring a black swan, we just better hope they don’t both pop at once.

I haven’t had the hardware upgrade done yet. I’ve got HW2.5 on that car currently, so no FSD until HW3 is installed next month.

*I believe it changed to you just have to "order" by that date, not actually own.

Yeah buddy, in your dreams the subscription price is staying $100/mo. If it jumps by even $50 over the next year, the math is screwed and the longer you keep the car the more you're paying.

It was $2,500 back in 2019 when I had it done, nice to see it dropped a bit. The upgrade was well worth it and because I acquired FSD by this route I transferred it to my new Y I bought last year. At $99 a month provided you can just pick a random month once or twice a year I think it would be very useful on a long trip. As for people paying $8k for it now, no way. Even with over half my miles via FSD since 14.2 it is not worth that much

The EAP -> FSD upgrade path was $2K. Not that it matters anymore, as that is no longer feasible.

That’s it, cheers! At the time I wished I could just get EAP because the only difference was summon or something else useless to me

EAP has served us very well from May 2018 through now. I just bought the FSD upgrade for $2K so I can swap it to a new vehicle purchase next month.

Congrats! I think you got the best deal combination they’ve offered for FSD, besides perhaps last year with the S and X

Thanks! Sure don’t have any complaints with how it’s worked out. Excited to have HW4 in a new Model Y in a month.

I'm borrowing the 8k on a margin account and paying $37/mo in interest... and it's bringing my insurance down by about $30/mo. So $99/mo or $7/mo. hmmmmmm

I guess plan to total your Tesla before March 31st 2026, since April 1st you are SOL.

when is this going to be launched in the UK?