This was to be expected. It simply doesn't make sense from both a consumer and business perspective. I'm still strongly of the mentality that the hardware should be standardized in some form, at least from the compute form factor side at minimum.
That said, I really don't think they will start charging people for Autopilot like features. Most of those features are standard on a lot of cars nowadays, so unless Tesla is planning on offering more features on Autopilot that aren't common on most cars, it really would not make sense.
The part about them offering different tiers of FSD does make sense, for example, supervised FSD vs. unsupervised FSD. I really don't see them offering more options outside of that, but maybe they plan on bringing back something like Enhanced Autopilot? Basically a stripped down FSD version that works on highway only.
Furthermore, if other brands/automakers start offering autonomous vehicle options, I wonder how that will affect pricing going forward. I imagine that they don't plan on increasing the price of supervised FSD, or at least I hope they don't. I personally would no longer subscribe to FSD supervised if the price increased from its current pricing.
If they introduce unsupervised FSD at a different price, then what would that look like? One would hope that if it is for personal use, the pricing would be less expensive, maybe in the ballpark of $150? Or maybe they plan on reducing the price of supervised FSD and placing unsupervised FSD in the current price of $100?
It really is a toss up at this point. But whatever the case, I really hope they do actually separate private personal use vs. commercial use like Uber, Lyft, etc. I just don't know how they would be able to verify and validate in which way it is being used.
Edit: I can already see the videos and comments on different social media sites... "You will own nothing and be happy" is the sentiment.
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