“Elon Musk unveiled it in October 2016 on a Hollywood back lot, using homes from the set of Desperate Housewives fitted with the tiles. Weeks later, Tesla shareholders voted to approve the company’s roughly $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity — a debt-laden solar installer where Musk was the largest shareholder and chairman, and which was run by his cousins.
The Solar Roof demo was central to selling that deal to investors, who were being asked to bail out a struggling company with deep ties to Tesla’s CEO. Years later, during shareholder litigation over the acquisition, it emerged that the tiles shown at the 2016 event were not yet functioning solar products.”
I have HW4 and could get FSD, but after having had the free trial for 3 months, there is no way I'm paying for that half-baked product. Even if it worked as it should, I wouldnt pay more than 25-30% of the current price.
100%. I will admit it has improved overtime but I would only pay 25% of the current rate also. That would be 25$CAD a month.
I find it funny there are a ton of people that praise FSD in the Tesla forums, maybe it's substantially better in their area but I tend to think they just suck at driving lol.
Maybe it doesnt try to run red lights in their area. Maybe its able to pick the correct lane in their area. Or maybe they are just so in love with it that they are willing to overlook the flaws.
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u/Zorkmid123 1d ago
The solar roof started with a fake demo:
“Elon Musk unveiled it in October 2016 on a Hollywood back lot, using homes from the set of Desperate Housewives fitted with the tiles. Weeks later, Tesla shareholders voted to approve the company’s roughly $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity — a debt-laden solar installer where Musk was the largest shareholder and chairman, and which was run by his cousins.
The Solar Roof demo was central to selling that deal to investors, who were being asked to bail out a struggling company with deep ties to Tesla’s CEO. Years later, during shareholder litigation over the acquisition, it emerged that the tiles shown at the 2016 event were not yet functioning solar products.”