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Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for (electrek.co)
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Tesla has confirmed its latest bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners will not get the Autosteer feature they paid for.

Instead, they will get a year of ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’.

When Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023, the software was incomplete, especially regarding its Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) features like ‘Supervised (FSD) Full Self-Driving’, which was included in the price of all early Cybertrucks.

It took Tesla almost a year to start releasing its FSD on the Cybertruck.

After Tesla stopped making new Cybertruck Foundation Series, which are fully loaded with all options, buyers started to have the option of buying the $8,000 FSD package or keeping only the Autopilot package, which is included in the price.

Autopilot’s two main features are Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer. The first is self-explanatory, while Autosteer is Tesla’s name for active lane keeping.

The vast majority of Tesla vehicle owners don’t buy the FSD package.

As of now, 16 months after Tesla started delivering the Cybertruck, the automaker has yet to deliver Autosteer on the electric pickup truck.

Today, Tesla started reaching out to Cybertruck owners to let them know that it won’t make Autosteer available for Cybertruck owners who haven’t bought FSD:

“As we improve our Autopilot technology, our feature sets will change. Accordingly, Autosteer will not be available for Cybertruck outside of Full Self-Driving (Supervised).“

Instead, Tesla offers a year of free FSD trial to Cybertruck owners.

More details in the article.

My favorite part is how they're now saying both "full self-driving' and "supervised".

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[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 95 points 1 day ago

Isn't Supervised Full Self-Driving an oxymoron? How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 60 points 1 day ago

How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?

It is not all the same.

You are full.
The car is self driving.
Tesla's interns in India are supervising both you and the car.

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago

It finally makes sense

[-] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Just like Amazon's walk in walk out stores where Indian people did the actual checkout for them...

[-] gimmemahlulz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

But I haven't eaten since lunch yesterday 🥲

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

You know, some are full of solids, some... fluids, and some... even superfluous :)

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Fully man... fully.

[-] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

It can't be both. It's not self-driving. That's just what they call it to oversell it. I'm assuming they had to add the "Supervised" part for legal reasons.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 1 day ago

They should get fined for being ambiguous and be forced to call it what it is.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The actual answer: It should be Level 4 autonomy. It is capable of full self driving, but only in certain conditions.

Do note that Tesla autopilot is actually only SAE level 2, so it's just a straight up lie :)

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Supervised Full Self-Driving seems like a euphemism for driving with a driving instructor. You fully drive yourself but someone supervises you while you do it.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Its because Elon Musk is an oxy moron

[-] Hominine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Parentheses, duh.

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