On the flip side, can Tesla be expected to upgrade these cars forever? 50 years from now will my MX still get updates? Will these updates just be the government mandated "safety" updates or will I get new features? I really don't know the answer; we are dealing with something completely new here.
They aren't expected to upgrade cars forever, at some point there will be an EOL, supposedly longer than a smartphone's. I'm typing on my Galaxy S22 and previously has a S9, and at best I'm swapping cars every 3/4 years. Am I expecting Samsung to keep the firmware updated for security, etc.? Yes. Am I expecting them to keep upgrading it for what it wasn't promised when I purchased? Definitely not.
Here we're dealing with something entirely different, commercially and legally. Some of you purchased FSD under the promise that in the future it would do something that it cannot do until they replace the hardware, then it makes sense fulfilling that promise. But they also do that selfishly, because they need you to be having the new hardware (remember: when you use something given to you for free, YOU are the product to another customer's benefit).
Some of you purchased advanced and full autopilot and then saw auto park removed for years, without indemnification, when Vision had to get rid of USSs.
On other hardware shenanigans, such as stalks and bumper cameras, well it's also a bit our fault, because no one "forced" us to purchase these beautiful but incomplete cars. To our defense, however, we expected the bumper camera to be there when making the order. And so the stalks. We just noticed that they were missing on the first drive, or reading forums.
If it weren't that all the complaints that were made, while the evil mastermind was stubborn on his stance pointing at the complainer as if they were idiots not capable of understanding him, were eventually listened... to the benefit of future owners.
He should pay such retrofits from his own (deep) pocket, as every decent man admitting he was wrong.
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