• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    FSD, which starts at $99 per month, is key to the future of the company as Musk tries to establish Tesla as a leader in autonomous mobility. The one-time price was $8,000.

    Real “Heads-I-Win” / “Tails-You-Lose” game Tesla drivers are playing. $8k is around 6.5 years of monthly payments. Not exactly a great deal, especially when Tesla heavily subsidies existing owners to trade up to a newer model every 2-4 years in order to boost their own sales figures. But the phrase “starts at” is the financial equivalent of a hand grenade. You know its going to blow up on you. Just a matter of when.

    And with the dubious safety of these new fully-autonomous vehicles…

    Higher Crash Rates in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) vs. Traditional Cars

    AVs in California experienced 26.3 crashes per million miles in 2022—dramatically higher than the 0.7 per million miles for human-driven vehicles.

    One has to wonder what this will do to car insurance rates in the near future, as more of these vehicles hit the road.