Background: I purchased my Tesla Model 3 on October 22, 2019, and have 66,034 miles on the odometer. I’ve only had one significant repair, a squeaky left front suspension joint fixed under the warrantee. I
have had to pay only one significant maintenance cost: two sets of tires for a total of $1143. I’ve driven my Tesla from the US East Coast to West Coast using the fabulous Tesla Supercharger network and I’m still just as crazy about the car as the day I bought it.On December 1, 2021, I passed Tesla’s safety test and was able to download FSD Beta V.10.5 to my car. Since then, I’ve downloaded three updates to the software: V10.8, V10.10, and recently V10.11.2. I use the software every day.
It still blows my mind that FSD Beta will drive you from your current location to the place you enter into the navigation without intervention for some routes. It changes lanes, makes turns, adjusts speed, etc., etc. to navigate on city streets, onto Interstate highways, and off again. I feel very privileged to be one of ~100,000 drivers in the world to be testing a system which allows my car to drive totally autonomously, at least in some situations.
These are only my personal observations. Other drivers in other areas with different conditions may have other observations. Please contribute your observations in the comments section!do I see I see significant progress toward Level 5 autonomy?If you want FSD right now, you must pay $12,000 for it, on top of the price of a Tesla. Elon Musk says the price will keep going up as FSD gets better.
The smart cruise and autosteer that come with every Tesla are incredibly worthwhile. Would I pay $12,000 for Full Self Driving Beta? If you are a techno nerd like me, it is great fun and very interesting to observe the state of autonomous driving now and watch improvements. Would I pay $12,000 out of a very tight budget for software which at this time has marginal utility. No!
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