Update April 12, 10:16pm PDT: Tesla FSD monthly subscriptions are now live in Canada, available through the Tesla mobile app.
BREAKING: FSD subscriptions live in Canada 🇨🇦🥳 thanks @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3qvjZpl3ve
— TeslaNorth.com (@RealTeslaNorth) April 13, 2024
Update April 12, 3:23pm PDT: Tesla just confirmed FSD subscriptions in Canada will cost $99 CAD per month. That works out to $71.82 USD or so, meaning Canadians are getting FSD subscriptions at a cheaper price than Americans, which is super rare. Our original story is below.
Also in Canada 🇨🇦
CA$99/month https://t.co/ijvZjQDZNi
— Tesla North America (@tesla_na) April 12, 2024
Tesla recently expanded a free one-month Full Self-Driving (FSD) trial to all owners in Canada, to showcase the latest version 12.3.x, which is a massive step-change versus the previous version 11.
Version 12.3.x is more human-like and assertive and is able to handle roundabouts better and navigate to and from destinations, even finding a spot in a parking lot at your final destination, depending on vehicle (cars without ultrasonic sensors and only on Tesla Vision).
On Friday, Tesla dropped the price of its monthly FSD subscription in the U.S., down from $199 to $99 USD per month, reports Tesla North.
This price drop will likely affect the upcoming FSD subscriptions in Canada as well (coming in April before trials end), since Tesla said pricing would mirror the equivalent of U.S. pricing. That would likely work out to roughly $136 CAD per month in Canada for FSD subscriptions, given current exchanges rates.
Tesla executive Rohan Patel said today, “the IT team (with many others as it’s not as simple as many on here assume) has done the work on a Canadian subscription option,” when asked for an update.
For now, Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) is only available in Canada and the USA. Purchasing outright costs a whopping $16,000 CAD in Canada ($12,000 in the US).
Below is a video FSD 12.3.3 driving in downtown Toronto, Ontario:
Here’s another video of FSD 12.3.3 taking on Montreal:
With FSD pricing in Canada possibly coming in at half price compared to before, would you subscribe at $136/month or so?
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Maybe if I have a road trip coming up. Not worth the $99 just to drive around town.
NEVER. Do not ever under any circumstances suggest there may be a market for this. Such features should be FREE.
Broke lil peasant girl can’t afford big boy toys… cry some more.
Personally, for me, it is around town driving where it really has value. But it matters if “town” is a small suburb vs big city with heavy traffic, which is where it is really the most helpful.
I’ll pay that much when I can legally nap in the back.
Unpopular opinion: FSD’s best use-case is being able to drive to the bar and not leave your car afterwards.
Until that is possible, FSD is just un-training drivers.
Not an unpopular opinion just a very stupid and ill-informed opinion.
That’s a great theoretical use-case, if it ever were to get there, which I’m not sure it will or not. Certainly not there now. It kinda is, if weather, emergency vehicles and construction weren’t a thing. It handles MOST situations very well now. I can *usually* get from A to B without intervention.
Weather has improved enormously. Even heavy rain isn’t a problem anymore, and it does reasonably well with snow on the ground. Snow collecting on the cameraa is something I think it can never handle without hardware updates (heating/wiping ability). But it still is inappropriate to use with, for example, construction zones with human flaggers. And it won’t react to approaching emergency vehicles. I’m sure those will improve.
Oh, and when I say “A to B”… I mean almost. Oddly (considering auto park has been around forever), it won’t even attempt to park when it reaches a destination. It won’t even stop lol. Again, I’m sure that’s something that will come with an update.
For the most part, I think non-users don’t quite appreciate just how good it is.
$100/mo kinda makes me regret my earlier $16k decision lol. But that’s a whole other topic.
It works very well now. It is so nice to have in heavy traffic especially, but also long boring drives. Basically all the driving situations where you wish you didn’t have to be there lol. The latest update really was a huge improvement. Perfect? Nope. It still requires focus and readiness as it still makes (sometimes baffling) mistakes. And I still question if it will ever get to true self driving… but I’m not ruling it out.
People who haven’t experienced it love to voice opinions and assumptions. It’s just something that you have to use (and get used to) to really understand.
I really do have the $16k version, but there’s an asterisk. I was a very early adopter when it was a fraction of the price. My car was totaled when someone hit me, and their insurance had to pay for a replacement at the current price. Is it worth what I paid (and the wait)? 100% no doubt about it. Is it worth $16k? No way. Not even close. $100/mo? I mean… I hate monthly fees, so I’d probably pass. I don’t even pay the $16/mo or whatever for the premium connectivity. But I’m very happy I have FSD.
Look into comma.ai it’s a 3rd party open source camera that taps into the OBD2 port to provide autopilot. Cost is a one time $1500 CDN and it rivals Teslas expensive offering. Bonus it can be added to any car with adaptive cruise and lane assistance. It’s a camera you mound behind your rearview mirror and worth a look.