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Tesla ordered to upgrade self-driving computer for free due to ‘false advertising’
Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles produced since 2016 have “all the needed hardware” to become self-driving with future software updates.
The automaker has yet to deliver on that promise, and the company actually had to upgrade the hardware in vehicles produced since 2016. Most notably, Tesla had to upgrade the onboard computer on which it runs its self-driving software. The new computer is known as Hardware 3.0 or the FSD computer.
To make good on its 2016 promise that vehicles produced going forward would have “all the needed hardware” to become self-driving, Tesla offered a free computer retrofit to owners who ordered the Full Self-Driving package.
The fact that Tesla was doing the retrofit for free squashed people’s concerns about needing to update hardware to access self-driving.
So the key here is that folks who purchased FSD did get a free upgrade with no court order required. The problem was that the company saw no need to upgrade folks who didnt purchase it. The guy who sued said that he might use it on a monthly subscription basis, and so Tesla should pay for the upgrade.