98 Percent Of Tesla Owners Who Try 'Full Self-Driving' Demo Never Actually Buy It

It seems that they are not enough pleased with FSD to warrant spending $8,000 to maintain it.

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The concept to provide new Tesla owners a complimentary month of access to the company's supposedly "Full Self-Driving"

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software—which does not really enable full self-driving capabilities—was conceived by Tesla back in March.

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How has that program gone now that a few months have passed? It turns out, not that good.

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According to Futurism, 98% of users who took advantage of the free trial chose not to continue using it at a cost.

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