Tim 🇳🇿

This latest Tesla Australia statement about FSD (Supervised) v13 is insulting. There’s no other word for it. HW4 owners get the rollout, while HW3 customers — the people who believed in Tesla early, who paid thousands for “Full Self-Driving Capability” years ago — are fed a few vague lines about “not giving up” on us. That’s not an update. It’s a brush-off. “We’ll come back to you later.” “Probably in Q2 next year.” “A v14 Lite version.” Do you hear how absurd that sounds? We didn’t pay for a Lite version. We paid for Full Self-Driving — the same promise that was printed on every sales page, demo, and delivery speech. Now it’s being rewritten midstream, and Tesla expects us to nod along as if that’s acceptable. What makes it worse is the patronising tone — the constant talk about “safety” and “rigorous testing,” as if that justifies leaving early adopters stranded with outdated hardware and no clear path forward. Safety isn’t an excuse for corporate silence. It’s a baseline expectation. Tesla built its brand on innovation and trust. HW3 owners were part of that story — we were the test group, the believers, the unpaid beta team. Now we’re being told, effectively, that our hardware is too old to matter and that we’ll “probably” get a stripped-down version someday, maybe. That’s not good enough. Not by a mile. If Tesla still cares about integrity, it needs to show it — with a concrete plan, clear timelines, and genuine respect for the people who funded the dream long before HW4 even existed.