Overview
- Elon Musk said Full Self-Driving will no longer be sold upfront after February 14, leaving a monthly subscription as the only option for new customers.
- Tesla currently lists FSD at $99 per month in the U.S. with a $8,000 one-time option that will be discontinued on the cutoff date.
- Reports indicate owners who previously bought FSD outright will keep lifetime access, while Tesla has not clarified transfer rights, global scope, pricing changes, or hardware retrofit policies.
- FSD remains a supervised SAE Level 2 driver-assistance system that requires active human oversight and is not fully autonomous.
- The change follows low paid adoption reported around 12% of the fleet, continued safety and marketing probes including an NHTSA investigation into 2.88 million vehicles, and compensation targets tying Elon Musk’s payout to 10 million active FSD subscriptions.