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by mthld 1402 days ago
What does FSD even means?? There is no mention of that in the author’s thread. Please stop with acronyms!
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Full self driving - the snake oil Tesla sells to improve their bottom line.
Hey now, with a wider roll out of their beta at least it does _something_.

Before ~6 months ago it was literally vaporware with an nontransferable license.

Tesla advertised: 'Full Self Driving'

But in reality: 'Fools Self Driving'

It was advertised by Tesla and as a Level 5 system. However, given that never happened, it is now known as 'Fools Self Driving' since not only it doesn't work, requires constant full assistance and attention of the driver behind the wheel at all times, it is been admittedly a Level 2 system who's creator gives the endless promises of updates in order to fool the customer that it will 'eventually' be 'Full Self Driving'.

So Tesla can continue to raises prices on this false promise and customers will keep buying, subscribing on the idea that they are hoping that it will be fully self driving, which is the typical pied piper selling snake oil scam.