Millions of Teslas Need Hardware Upgrades for Full Self-Driving, Musk Concedes

29 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Apr 22

Elon Musk has admitted that millions of Teslas with Hardware 3 will require hardware upgrades to achieve unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD).
Owners of vehicles produced between 2019 and 2023 will need new computers and cameras, with Tesla planning 'micro-factories' for these retrofits.
This reverses years of assurances that the cars were already FSD-ready, raising legal and financial concerns for Tesla and affected customers.

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