Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-wants-recurring-revenue-discontinues-autopilot-in-favor-of-fsd/

25 Comments

  1. “combining Tesla’s adaptive cruise control (Tesla calls this TACC) and lane-keeping assist (Tesla calls this Autosteer).”

    Congrats Tesla, you’ve manage to be on par with my wife’s Kia Teleuride.

  2. What “recurring revenue”? Tesla just killed the only distinctive feature (was it working as advertised or not is separate issue) and expects people to pay $100/month for something which is free on almost all cars newer than 5 years? I see even more used Teslas entering market…

  3. Locking tech that’s at least a decade old and standard on many other brands behind an additional fee… Wow bold stuff

    Yet share prices will continue to disregard the company’s actual performance

  4. lol, tesla is losing popularity and sales faster than you can blink and then they decide to do this? do they want to go out of business? because they are sure acting like it.

  5. Years ago I almost bought a Tesla because I loved how they looked and really wanted the self driving feature.

    I’m glad I dodged that bullet.

  6. RustyOrangeDog on

    They had to do this, a 70a% drop in sales with a nazi bro at your head isn’t not recoverable. They need money and that only exists now in the die hards.

  7. GetsBetterAfterAFew on

    Tesla sees the writing, and are now going to extract every penny they can before the end.