Tesla moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription

Is "Full Self-Driving" still the term they use to describe a mode that does not actually fully self-drive the car?

I can't help but think of an absurd situation where your subscription ends mid use and results in a crash. Like I'm sure the engineers have thought of this but the image of someone cruising down the road and getting a popup to enter their payment info before careening off a cliff is just so humorous... until the horrifying possibility that it could be reality sinks in.

What happens to people who paid for it as part of the sticker price? Are they grandfathered permanently?

I mean, at least in the U.S., an "FSD System" can't (yet) be held fully liable and there's not enough legal precedent for it (atm) even if it could.

Thus, if you drive in the U.S., you're both stupid and irresponsible if you utilize any "FSD" system while you're behind the wheel. Note that this legally distinct from "autonomous self-driving" like Waymo.

I have zero doubt we'll eventually get there, but it's going to be quite some time (over a decade?) for real FSD to be ubiquitous enough for the requisite traffic law changes and for this stuff to have gone through enough legal challenges in the various state courts.

doumented here:

https://elontime.io/

Make hay while the sun shines. BYD will force self driving to table stakes in a few years.

Ran out of suckers to pay the lump sum.

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