An Open Letter to @elonmusk, Tesla and the board of directors: You’ve Shown Little Regard for Long-Time Owners as the FSD transfer window in Australia just slammed shut.
A lot of us bought Full Self-Driving outright more than six years ago. Especially legacy Model S and Model X owners. We paid the big premium because we believed in Elon’s vision of real autonomy. We took the risk early and supported the company when it mattered most.
Now that window is over. No extension. It’s April 1st and the transfer option is gone. That feels like a final kick in the pants with a pointy shoe to the people who backed the autonomy dream from early on.
On top of that, here in Australia HW4 cars have already been running FSD Supervised for about six months. Meanwhile HW3 owners — many of whom also bought FSD outright years ago — still have no firm date when we’ll get it. It’s hard not to feel like our loyalty and early purchases count for very little.
I’m asking Tesla to do two things:
* Give a permanent, open transfer option for everyone who bought FSD outright, for HW3 cars. No more artificial deadlines or carrot dangling time-limited incentives.
* Release a clear timeline for when FSD Supervised will actually work on HW3 vehicles in Australia.
These steps would show some real respect for the owners who paid upfront and waited the longest. Right now it feels like Tesla has moved on and left the early believers behind. I'm hoping leadership sees this and acts. The community is watching.
@TeslaAUNZ@Tesla@Tesla_AI@elonmusk@robyndenholm@kimbal@KathleeWT@jgebbia@tomzhu_nz@IraEhrenpreis
@TeslaGong@TeslaAUNZ https://t.co/ggZzDv4XgM see my comments “mitchonthego” about FSD with time stamps - HW4 x2-x3 times better than ave human, AI5 (HW5) will be x10, no comment on HW3 but in that context, looks bad.
@TeslaGong@TeslaAUNZ@Tesla Thanks for commenting for us all, $50k is a lot from you for nothing, neglected and ghosted. I visited th US, drove FSD 13 for 3 weeks Dec last yr and came back disgusted with what I paid for here.
@TeslaGong I’m definitely not going to accept a third rate software and hardware solution for mine. Will it be as safe as hw4 or 2026 hw5, slow thinking over fast thinking required.
Tesla people me what we paid for , early adopters put their faith in the company achieving goals 🥅 not $$$
@shawncarelli@Tesla_AI@elonmusk Tesla are looking forward to better, faster hardware to ensure the safety and reliability of FSD, don’t be fooled, your and my HW3 is an inferior product, it won’t respond as rapidly, it will be, relative to newer HW, limited to calculate variables for a given situation.