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> It demonstrates that Tesla’s hardware and software stack is more portable than the company’s licensing struggles would suggest.

Unless I missed something, this is a completely unsupported claim by the article. Passion projects and retrofits are nothing at all like manufacturing.

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The article claims that the whole project only cost $40,000, and then compares that to electric conversion offerings that cost $75,000 (and mentions that the global conversion market in 2024 was $5.9 billion). I think the implication is that there could be a large market for FSD conversions that goes beyond passion projects because it is not only possible but affordable.

I would be surprised however if this project only cost $40,000, when you factor in the cost of labor and maintaining a facility to do this work.

It's specifically talking about the "FSD" model under the hood being able to run on this retrofit even though the cameras don't align 100% like they originally would.

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