Elon Musk Finally Admits That Teslas Don’t Have What It Takes for Full Self-Driving

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Elon Musk Finally Admits That Teslas Don’t Have What It Takes for Full Self-Driving

After repeatedly

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that Tesla was on the verge of legitimate full self-driving (FSD) — and selling cars with pricey computing hardware, based on the

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once the feature became reality — CEO Elon Musk has finally admitted that it’s not happening with the vehicles’ current hardware.

During the electric carmaker’s

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, Musk gave investors the “absolutely painful and difficult” concession.

“The truth is that we’re gonna have to upgrade people’s Hardware 3 [computers] for those who have bought Full Self Driving,” the brash billionaire said, “and that is the honest answer.”

“I’m kind of glad,” he mused, “that not that many people bought the FSD package” — which, let’s not forget, he

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them to purchase.

As 

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, Musk issued this revelation while interrupting Tesla’s Autopilot and AI czar Ashok Elluswamy, essentially contradicting his own executive while he tried to tell investors that the company had not given up on its HW3.

Elluswamy, to his credit, handled the interruption diplomatically by teasing that Tesla will be releasing a “baby” version of FSD while its engineers work on the latest version of the self-driving feature for cars equipped with the newer Hardware 4 computers.

The admission follows previous musings by Musk, during another quarterly earnings call last year, in which he

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that HW3 doesn’t have the juice.

“There is some chance,” the CEO said during

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last October, “that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD.”

“H4 has several times the capability of HW3,” he continued. “It’s easier to get things to work on HW4 and it takes a lot of effort to squeeze that into HW3.”

Back in 2018, the company began giving away “free”

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to people who bought FSD software for their Teslas. On this latest call, Musk

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to FSD purchasers to upgrade them to HW4,

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, though he didn’t give a timeline for when that might happen.

Despite that promise, these latest missives from Musk’s galaxy brain coming after more than a decade of kicking the can are beyond the pale, even for him.

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