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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] 124 points 2 weeks ago

Buy from a con-man, get conned. Whoop-de-doo-de-doo.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Isn't Supervised Full Self-Driving an oxymoron? How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?

It is not all the same.

You are full.
The car is self driving.
Tesla's interns in India are supervising both you and the car.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just like Amazon's walk in walk out stores where Indian people did the actual checkout for them...

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It can't be both. It's not self-driving. That's just what they call it to oversell it. I'm assuming they had to add the "Supervised" part for legal reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

They should get fined for being ambiguous and be forced to call it what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Supervised Full Self-Driving seems like a euphemism for driving with a driving instructor. You fully drive yourself but someone supervises you while you do it.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lmao they put lane-keeping assist behind a marketing-wank paywall for their already expensive EVs - something manufacturers like Subaru and Hyundai has made standard across their entire line for years now

What a sad joke this company has become, another example of failed leadership valuing yes-men and sycophancy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I rode in a 2019 Subaru Ascent (like a big Outback) a few years ago, the lane keep assist was great even back then, not to mention the blind spot monitoring and all that. and it was all included. wtf is Tesla even doing with all that time and money??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I love mine. Combined with adaptive cruise, it’s amazing for slowly rolling traffic, longer journeys, and stop-and-go traffic. I’m under no impression the car is ‘driving’ but having a machine take over the mental load is great and frees up that capacity for other driving tasks and/or awareness of the road.

Tesla calling that technology “Auto” anything without it being genuinely 100% autonomous should have landed someone a fat fine or jail time

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, plus the assist feature shuts itself off when it can't be used (ie. driving into the sun) unlike Tesla's version that instead chooses to ram you into a building then blames you for it by disengaging 0.1 seconds before the collision.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It’s going to Elon Musk bank account.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Hyundai Lanekeep is better than teslas too

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.

It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck's sake.

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

Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.

Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They’ve “figured out” lane-keeping - they’re just keeping it reserved for FSD. It’s in FSD. They’re just now flipping to not offer it as a standalone feature, which don’t get me wrong is a shitty move.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that the same lane-keeping that Full-Self-Drives into concrete barriers? https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/tech/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Tesla is the Fyre Festival of automotive manufacturers, except in this case Billy has managed to keep the kite in the air for an astonishingly long time.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Class action goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ass action go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m sure there’s some bullshit fine print about binding arbitration. It’s so cool that corporations can just say “we waive your fundamental rights because we feel like it” and it’s just…legal. Greatest country on earth.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So besides Trump and Musk being passionate fuck buddies, how is this legal? Surely this is fraud and deceit right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

A fine is just a fee for breaking the law.

[–] FistingEnthusiast 27 points 2 weeks 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] 13 points 2 weeks 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] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

DOGE already defunded that government department.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (6 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.

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

umm... good? This might actually might have saved some lives.

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

By not delivering lane-keeping? I appreciate the unreasoning hatred, but some reasoning would be good too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes, my lane assist function thinks that random pot holes and scabby bits of road are lanes and tries to push me over into the path of other cars without warning.

I turned it off.

My car is not a tesla, but from what i understand about teslas, they are prone to this same issue.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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] 8 points 1 week ago

Despite that people love to talk about Tesla and also cybertrucks, this is reminder to never buy anything for promised features. If you wouldn't be happy with the existing features just don't buy it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Oh well, atleast they are making bank running the Tesla as automated robo taxis while they aren't using them like Elon promised.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

I don't feel bad for anyone that was dumb enough to buy Elon's crappy products.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This tesla coil is a downward spiral!

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