Tesla’s “full self-driving” (FSD) include has had something of a rough history, to put things liberally. It’s been ensnared in numerous accidents, apparently steady programming bugs and a parade of investigation from an array of administrative bodies. Likewise, it’s going to cost more cash.

The knock addresses an extra $2,000 being attached onto the not deficient sticker price: another great absolute of $12,000, or more than halfway to a Honda Civic. Nor is it whenever FSD first has gotten more costly. In 2020, Musk (once more, on Twitter) reported a generally $2,000 cost increment. This latest climb, Musk explained, will just apply in the US; he added that the component’s “price will rise as we get closer to FSD production code release.”

Regardless of whether that implies there are plans for significantly further cost increments is impossible to say — Tesla broadly disintegrated its corporate correspondences division around a similar time FSD acquired it’s $10,000 sticker price.

Strikingly, buying the “full self-driving” include doesn’t really bring about a vehicle that drives itself. This to a great extent is the reason Senators Markey and Blumenthal have approached the FTC to research Tesla and Musk for, in addition to other things, “exaggerations of their vehicle’s abilities.” According to one study, about 11% of Tesla proprietors drop the cash needed to empower FSD, and it’s hard to envision how expanding the monetary weight on purchasers could switch that pattern.