BYD has a Car with Working Self-Driving for $10,000 (Elon Charges $8,000 to Turn on Broken Self-Driving on a $60,000 Car)

Andrew Anglin February 11, 2025

How much is a self-driving Tesla, which isn’t really self-driving and will kill you?

They screw with the numbers on their website, and no one pays MSRP, but I’d guess a Tesla with the “full-self driving” (which again, isn’t full self-driving) is well over $60,000, and then you pay $8,000 to turn the “FSD” software on.

It is the most ridiculous thing in the world that the Chinese are selling EVs with FSD that works and which you don’t have to pay for for $10,000.

It seems like if people were aware of this, they would be angry that the US government is preventing them from buying these cars. Being able to get any brand new car for $10,000 would really help a lot of Americans, who are struggling with money a lot more than people in China.

Reuters:

China’s BYD on Monday started offering advanced autonomous driving features on most of its models including ones priced as low as $9,555, far undercutting competitors such as Tesla in a move analysts say is set to start a new price war.

They had already announced this and I wrote about it months ago.

I don’t know why Reuters just lies like this. Maybe they’re talking about the English language press release, I don’t know, but this is definitely not a new announcement.

The electric vehicle giant has equipped all of its BYD-branded models priced above 100,000 yuan ($13,688) with the company’s proprietary “God’s Eye” advanced driver-assistance system, BYD founder Wang Chuanfu told an event livestreamed from Shenzhen.

It has also installed the system in three models priced below 100,000 yuan, the cheapest being the Seagull priced from 69,800 yuan. It began sales of those models, 21 in total, immediately after the event. Wang said these would be the “first batch”.

BYD had previously only offered such features, which enable cars to navigate highway traffic autonomously under human drivers’ supervision, in models priced from $30,000. Tesla has these features available in China in its EVs priced from $32,000.

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Anticipation over how BYD’s smart driving plans could shake up the already highly competitive automotive market has built up since last week, sending the firm’s shares up by 16% since Thursday when Chinese media reported on plans for the event.

I think the Teslas in China are forced to install the BYD software for FSD, since Tesla’s own FSD will just kill you, and often kill others as well.

Tesla recently won a court case based on the claim that they don’t claim that the product they call “FSD” is actually “full self-driving,” and it’s actually just a fun little gimmick, and you need to keep your hands on the wheel at all times or it will crash.

To be fair, even the Google FSD works. It’s being used in San Francisco and Phoenix, and it works. They have driverless taxis. They kill people sometimes, but they basically work. Tesla is not even involved in these pilot programs, because they can’t get any FSD to work at all.

Somehow, Elon goes around talking about how he’s the leader in FSD. It would be one thing if the US media was hiding the fact that China’s works (even if they are printing backpage Reuters news items about it), but the fact that Google’s works makes it very strange that Elon is able to continue getting away with claiming his FSD is the industry leader.

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