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What? Are you joking? You would pay $99 PER MONTH for the car to drive itself?

What?

I’m not saying I would. I’m saying that 1.7 million subscribers currently do, and that number is growing rapidly. It’s also a big reason why people buy the cars. People legitimately talk about and consider it from a safety perspective. Drive to the ER, that kind of thing, as well as a luxury feature.

People don’t like driving, and they hire(d) people to do it for them. There’s even a word for it: chauffeur. Now the car does it itself. Yes the chauffeur could do other things as well, but you can’t pay a chauffeur $99 a month.

Apparently its 870k the rest have bought it initally.

So 9% bought their Tesla with FSD.

A lot less bought FSD than I expected, a lot more people who pay for the subscription.

A lot of people btw. do like driving.

Have you tried FSD?

I don't have a Tesla, my uncle has a Model S. I met up with him recently for lunch, I told the car to drive us to a seafood place, it did most of the work and parked itself. This is commuting. And, it didn't roll through stop signs.

I like myself a Cooper or a GTI for the twisties, but that's a different thing.

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