ChrissyOne
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I've seen plenty of discussion about how full self driving will be a huge game changer for car makers in the coming years, but I can't seem to get my head around how much of an impact this will be for average drivers. Setting aside robo-taxis and other commercial applications for the moment, I'm talking about FSD for private, consumer model cars.
The cost seems like the biggest challenge. An additional upfront cost of $10k or more, or a monthly fee of $400+ seems like a huge price to pay to not drive the new car you just bought. Maybe I'm too American in my thinking, but isn't a big part of the joy of car ownership is actually, you know, driving it..? I can certainly see an auto-pilot, lane assist feature being useful, but are regular people really going to pay extra for full auto?
To wit:
https://electrek.co/2021/08/31/tesla-survey-take-rate-full-self-driving-package/
"Now a survey of over 17,000 Tesla buyers shows that the Tesla Full Self-Driving take rate worldwide is only at about 11%"
Eleven percent still seems high to me, but maybe that's possible for a worldwide statistic. It's still too low for so many EV stock analysts (even those not named Cathie Wood) to be talking about FSD as THE game changing factor in EV growth.
So what do you think? Would you pay more for FSD? Or, like crab-walk and tank-turn, is it a parlor trick that you'd do once to show off to friends, and probably never touch again?
The cost seems like the biggest challenge. An additional upfront cost of $10k or more, or a monthly fee of $400+ seems like a huge price to pay to not drive the new car you just bought. Maybe I'm too American in my thinking, but isn't a big part of the joy of car ownership is actually, you know, driving it..? I can certainly see an auto-pilot, lane assist feature being useful, but are regular people really going to pay extra for full auto?
To wit:
https://electrek.co/2021/08/31/tesla-survey-take-rate-full-self-driving-package/
"Now a survey of over 17,000 Tesla buyers shows that the Tesla Full Self-Driving take rate worldwide is only at about 11%"
Eleven percent still seems high to me, but maybe that's possible for a worldwide statistic. It's still too low for so many EV stock analysts (even those not named Cathie Wood) to be talking about FSD as THE game changing factor in EV growth.
So what do you think? Would you pay more for FSD? Or, like crab-walk and tank-turn, is it a parlor trick that you'd do once to show off to friends, and probably never touch again?
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