Tesla Autopilot is dead. The cleverly marketed combination of adaptive cruise control and lane-centering put Elon Musk’s EV company on the map as a tech leader.
Now, in a highly divisive move, the automaker has removed it from its list of standard equipment. If you want more than radar-assisted cruise control, you’ll have to cough up $99 per month for Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
This is likely a strategy to drive more high-margin sign-ups for FSD. But it’s not hard to see why the decision has some Tesla fans up in arms. An Autopilot-like system comes on the base Toyota Camry as standard equipment.
For more on the news, check out Rob Stumpf’s story below.
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