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IMHO that not true:

They sold a car. That car had certain features enabled.

That normally that feature would cost extra or is not explicitly listed in the contract doesn't matter at all. It was enabled in the car so anyone inspecting the car clearly saw the feature when looking for it.

It's like selling a car and then telling the buyer a month later "oh btw. the second row of seats in your car was not listed in the contract (even through you saw it when buying) so we went to your car used our master key to unlock it and removed the seats, you can always get them back by paying another 8,000".

Companies who accidental sell more then they want normally live with that loss and accept it as their error (which it IMHO obviously was).



FSD in an old vehicle like this doesn’t even do anything. It’s a placeholder feature, you would never know if it was on or not, there’s zero customer facing features in the fsd package on -older- vehicles.

Newer vehicles, yes, FSD package has features.


It at least theoretically entitles you to a free upgrade to the newer self driving computer, which then activates the new features.


If I sell you a laptop with a copy of Omnigraffle that I bought using a stolen credit card, and the license gets revoked, who is to blame?


This analogy is wrong because legitimate actors performed every transaction in the chain in a fully legal manner. There was no stolen credit card, no shifty advertising, no nothing that was wrong.

Tesla screwed up.




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