The Hardware in Your Pre-2023 Tesla Will Never Allow It to Fully Drive Itself, Elon Musk Admits
THE SO WHAT
Declaring pre-2023 hardware permanently subscale for autonomy formalizes a two-tier fleet — and normalizes paid upgrade paths for safety-critical compute. Any OEM promising 'future FSD' without a clear hardware refresh and retrofit story is now selling against this admission.
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