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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".

Archive link: https://archive.is/1w64R

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 hour ago

FSD? Fake Self Driving? False Self Driving? F#@& Says Driver?

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

So besides Trump and Musk being passionate fuck buddies, how is this legal? Surely this is fraud and deceit right?

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 hours ago

every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 49 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Lmao they put lane-keeping assist behind a marketing-wank paywall for their already expensive EVs - something manufacturers like Subaru and Hyundai has made standard across their entire line for years now

What a sad joke this company has become, another example of failed leadership valuing yes-men and sycophancy

[–] forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I rode in a 2019 Subaru Ascent (like a big Outback) a few years ago, the lane keep assist was great even back then, not to mention the blind spot monitoring and all that. and it was all included. wtf is Tesla even doing with all that time and money??

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I love mine. Combined with adaptive cruise, it’s amazing for slowly rolling traffic, longer journeys, and stop-and-go traffic. I’m under no impression the car is ‘driving’ but having a machine take over the mental load is great and frees up that capacity for other driving tasks and/or awareness of the road.

Tesla calling that technology “Auto” anything without it being genuinely 100% autonomous should have landed someone a fat fine or jail time

[–] bluedye@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

It’s going to Elon Musk bank account.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Hyundai Lanekeep is better than teslas too

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.

It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 hours ago

I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.

Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago

I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck's sake.

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 13 hours ago

Tesla is the Fyre Festival of automotive manufacturers, except in this case Billy has managed to keep the kite in the air for an astonishingly long time.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 9 hours ago

This tesla coil is a downward spiral!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 35 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Class action goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

I’m sure there’s some bullshit fine print about binding arbitration. It’s so cool that corporations can just say “we waive your fundamental rights because we feel like it” and it’s just…legal. Greatest country on earth.

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[–] Leeuk@feddit.uk 29 points 14 hours ago

Snake oil salesman.

VW where rightly punished for Dieselgate yet seems like the Texan is getting away with it (again). I also blame the US media. Remember to this date Tesla has never spent a cent advertising in America, their entire hype machine has been fuelled by sites like The Verge (until they eventually woke up a few years back - by which point Tesla had already sold gazillions of shares and took customers deposits). This is why we need real journalism more than ever, the bodies that regulate these cowboys are no longer fit for purpose.

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Shame on you if you still believe promises made by Tesla 😂 They are kinda like promises made by Trump 😆

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes, yes sir, I've found the terrorist, right there! /s

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

Goddamn even full ass vehicles are going the early access lifecycle.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 94 points 17 hours ago

Buy from a con-man, get conned. Whoop-de-doo-de-doo.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 83 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

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

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 :)

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 51 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

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

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[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours 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 12 hours ago

Its because Elon Musk is an oxy moron

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I hope every single person who has, or ever will, buy a cybertruck a lifetime of misery and misfortune

May they stub their toe on every step for the rest of their life

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But also may they sue for false advertising and cost Tesla legal fees and result in them being obligated to provide these services for free.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

DOGE already defunded that government department.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Nah thats the government's ability to regulate.

He hasn't defunded the courts, so private lawsuits can occur. (At least he hasn't as of today, maybe he will tomorrow)

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours ago
[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

'bait-and-switch' They'll really call it anything but fraud huh.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

Tesla commits ‘oopsie-daisy’. Cybertruck makes a ‘big boo-boo’.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

Autostreer to far right might sound good to some (apparently??) but it's an issue in actual traffic.

[–] skip0110@lemm.ee 9 points 14 hours ago

They do this to juice the gross margin number and make the auto business appear more profitable.

https://wccftech.com/tesla-plans-to-record-1-billion-in-fsd-related-deferred-revenue-over-the-next-12-months/

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean concidering Tesla lost the EU market, it's likely this will go unchallenged. but yes shitty but expected from the company.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 28 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Cybertruck isn't allowed in the EU anyway so our regulatory agencies and courts have no power over it. Plus they could just enable it in EU and keep disabled in US if there was a verdict in the EU court system that they have to honor their original terms.

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