Is Tesla FSD worth $8,000?

“Full Self Driving” has been Tesla’s proverbial carrot on a stick since the company first offered it to customers in 2017. Since then, the reality of “FSD” has been a series of unkept promises and missed deadlines, as some Tesla owners waited half a decade to see the first real FSD Beta, and others longer still who weren’t able to get into the earlier Beta program in 2022. This upcharge was billed as an investment in the future, and a promise that buyers would one day see their cars able to drive fully autonomously, and later, a promise that their cars would function like autonomous ride-hailing cars dubbed Robotaxis.