During Tesla’s Q4 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk admitted the company will have to upgrade owners with Hardware 3 (HW3) cars that bought Full Self-Driving packages.
The upgrade will be required to support full FSD Unsupervised in the future, especially Robotaxis.
“We’re going to have to upgrade people’s hardware 3 computer for those that have bought Full Self-Driving, and that is the honest answer,” said Musk on the call. “And that’s going to be painful and difficult, but we’ll get it done.”
“Now I’m kind of glad that not that many people bought the FSD package,” joked Musk, laughing afterwards.
For now, Tesla still does not offer FSD transfers for new car purchases, but only during select promo periods. Owners that bought full FSD packages should have the option stay with their account, and not the car.
During the company’s Q3 earnings call, Musk similarly hinted that if an upgrade for HW3 was required for FSD Unsupervised, Tesla would upgrade cars for free. Now, he is saying it must happen.
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That's great news for our 2023 Model Y–and great thanks to the $15K we paid to own FSD. My only fear is that the car gets totaled, and FSD gets totaled along with it. So I think Elon should allow any vehicular RUD to automatically allow for transfer to a new(er) Tesla. Please. Make me sleep better at night.
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I think the trick is to get full replacement insurance and confirm with your insurance company that they would get you another car with that software feature… They did confirm that for my specific home and auto policy with State Farm, though I would definitely get it clear and in writing…
Well I bought I bought a 24 Y with FSD. One month later a kid pulled out in front of me and totaled it with 1800 mi on it. You can check it out on wham bam Tesla cam but State farm was total jerks about reimbursement and I still lost $4,000 on the car. Tessa said so sorry. We're keeping your eight grand. If you buy a new car you get to pay it all over again.
I had a thought abotu that…
In my experience, the Ins. Co. will sell you your totaled car for 10% of the reimbursement cost. So what I'd do is buy the wreck, and when Elon says it's transferrable for the next three and a half minutes, I'll do it, then junk the wreck. Much cheaper than $8K for a new FSD.! And now that it'll be upgraded to HW4 free, it's an even better deal!