Elon Musk lastly admits that Tesla must exchange its HW3 self-driving computer systems. He mentioned it might be tough, however Tesla would do it.
Nonetheless, no concrete plan has been shared.
For the higher a part of the yr, we’ve got been reporting that Tesla can’t obtain its promise of “full self-driving” on HW3, and it wants to come back clear about it.
Final October, Tesla CEO Elon Musk lastly admitted that it is perhaps the case, however he didn’t need to commit totally:
We’re not 100% certain. HW4 has a number of occasions the aptitude of HW3. It’s simpler to get issues to work on HW4 and it takes a number of efforts to squeeze that into HW3. There may be some likelihood that HW3 doesn’t obtain the protection degree that permits for unsupervised FSD.
At the moment, simply 3 months later, Tesla’s administration was requested in regards to the HW3 state of affairs once more.
Tesla’s head of FSD, Ashok Elluswamy, first responded that they “should not giving up on it”, however then Musk corrected him saying that “the reality is that we might want to exchange all HW3 computer systems in automobiles the place FSD was bought.”
He mentioned that Tesla would exchange them free of charge, however he specified that it might solely be for individuals who purchased the as much as $15,000 Full Self-Driving package deal.
That might show problematic as Tesla all the time promised that “all automobiles produced since 2016 are able to Full Self-Driving” – not simply those who paid for the software program.
Tesla already needed to improve computer systems on older automobiles constructed between 2016 and 2018 that had older HW2.5 computer systems. Once more, Tesla solely supplied HW3 retrofits just for individuals who purchased the FSD software program package deal and it was confirmed flawed in court docket.
Actually, Tesla was sued by an proprietor who had a HW2.5 car and wished to make use of the month-to-month FSD subscription. Tesla wished to cost him for the pc retrofit to make the FSD work on his automobile. He took them to court docket over the declare that “all automobiles produced since 2016 are able to Full Self-Driving” and the decide sided with the proprietor, forcing Tesla to pay for the retrofit.
Tesla may technically discover itself having to do this on hundreds of thousands of HW3 automobiles now.
Moreover, Tesla must design a brand new pc to retrofit automobiles outfitted with HW3 computer systems because the HW4 pc in its newest automobiles shouldn’t be retrofittable for the HW3 automobiles.
