4 Tesla owners react to their FSD dreams getting crushed: 'It feels like a bait and switch'

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the company’s recent earnings call that vehicles shipped before 2023 with Hardware 3 cannot achieve unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), a move that has enraged long‑time owners and sparked legal and reputational risks for the company. Tesla is offering discounted trade‑ins or physical computer/camera replacements at “micro factories,” and plans a pared‑down FSD v14 “lite” for older cars in June. Owner backlash includes growing legal coordination in Europe (nearly 4,000 signups) and frustrated customers who paid thousands for FSD, raising potential costs and negative sentiment for TSLA and its brand trustworthiness.