{"id":426409,"date":"2026-01-24T05:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:06:24","slug":"tesla-paywalls-lane-centering-on-new-model-3-and-model-y-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426409\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla paywalls lane centering on new Model 3 and Model Y purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla just objectively decreased the value of the Model 3 and Model Y. On Thursday, the company said<\/a> it\u2019s paywalling its lane-centering feature, Autosteer, for new purchases of the two EVs in the US and Canada. This was previously a standard feature. Lane centering is now part of the Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) package<\/a>, which costs $99 per month.<\/p>\n

Speculating on why Tesla would do this doesn’t require much imagination. Remember the pay package Tesla shareholders approved for Musk<\/a> in November? One of his requirements for receiving up to $1 trillion is reaching 10 million active FSD subscriptions.<\/p>\n

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One of Musk’s stipulations for receiving $1 trillion is reaching 10 million active FSD subscriptions. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images) (ANGELA WEISS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

As for the details, Tesla killed the Basic Autopilot feature that was standard on the Model 3 and Model Y. That package included both Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC). Now, the latter will remain a standard feature, but Autosteer now requires that $99-per-month FSD subscription. The change applies only to new purchases, not existing owners.<\/p>\n

The move comes ahead of FSD’s switch to a subscription-only service<\/a>. After February 14, you’ll no longer be able to buy the package for a one-time $8,000 upfront fee. If you want FSD (or just lane centering) from now on, your annual cost will be $1,188.<\/p>\n

Making matters worse, Musk warned that FSD won’t remain at $99 monthly forever. “I should also mention that the $99\/month for supervised FSD will rise as FSD’s capabilities improve,” the Tesla CEO posted<\/a> on X. He didn’t indicate when that might happen or what the increase would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla just objectively decreased the value of the Model 3 and Model Y. On Thursday, the company said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,6780,1019],"class_list":["post-426409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-fsd","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}