Elon Musk Admits Millions Of Tesla Owners Need Upgrades For True ‘Full Self-Driving’
Tesla FSD upgrade reveals millions need hardware changes for true self-driving, raising costs and legal concerns.
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Elon Musk Admits Millions Of Tesla Owners Need Upgrades For True ‘Full Self-Driving’
Tesla’s long-promised Full Self-Driving breakthrough has hit an unexpected reality check. In a surprising shift, Elon Musk confirmed that millions of Tesla vehicles will require hardware upgrades to achieve true, unsupervised autonomous driving. This directly challenges years of messaging that existing cars were already equipped for future self-driving via software updates alone. For owners, investors, and the broader EV industry, the implications are immediate—and potentially costly. Tesla Full Self-Driving Upgrade: What Changed For years, Tesla marketed its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system as a software-first evolution. Buyers were led to believe that their vehicles, especially those equipped with “Hardware 3” (HW3), had everything needed for future autonomy. Now, that assumption has been overturned. During a recent earnings call, Musk acknowledged that HW3 systems lack the capability to support the next generation of unsupervised FSD. This means vehicles sold between 2019 and 2023—milli…
