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yes. It is probably one of the worst values in the entire automotive industry.

They always have this "buy now, the price will go up later!" but I had to ask myself: how much can the price go up? It's not going to be a $20,000 feature any time soon. I figured I was risking a couple thousand dollars that I would need to pay to upgrade later.

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If Tesla eventually solves FSD (which is not a given) they might stop selling the ad-on package altogether and just charge a per mile subscription instead.

Then all of these old Teslas with FSD for life will become rare, similar to the Teslas witch unlimited free supercharging.

There really is a sucker born every minute.

While true, on a much smaller scale I experienced the same benefit from being grandfathered in to the old Blink for Home security cameras. I have full service for free for life, as opposed to $10/month. A giant online stink was raised to keep Amazon to Blink's word after the acquisition, but it worked.

Yes, but in that case you've actually bought a service that already exists, not vaporware that will never exist.

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