Tesla Owners Can Transfer Full Self-Driving Capabilities To a New Vehicle For Free
Tesla is allowing current Tesla owners to transfer their self-driving package to a new vehicle. Of course, as you may expect, that ability comes with a few caveats.
During an earnings call Wednesday CEO Elon Musk said that the company would be offering “one-time amnesty” to vehicle owners that wanted to transfer the feature, although he didn’t prove any details on how the swap could happen.
Today, we learned a bit more thanks to Twitter user @Kdahlenburg, who received them from the car company.
First reported by The Verge(Opens in a new window), Tesla requires anyone who wants to take advantage of the deal to buy a new Test and take delivery of it before September 30th of this year, so you don’t have a ton of time.
To transfer full self-driving capabilities you’ll need to forfeit the ability on your current Tesla vehicle. The software can be removed as early as one week before the scheduled delivery of your new Tesla, so you’ll also likely be without it for a bit while you’re waiting.
Tesla notes that the full self-driving ability can only be transferred once, and can not be transferred to another person or vehicle even if the vehicle is privately sold.
That forfeiture of the self-driving ability also isn’t reversible, so if you ask to have it transferred and then decide you don’t want that new Tesla after all you’ll also lose self-driving in the process. And you have to decide before you get that new Tesla, not after. Tesla won’t let you apply the offer retroactively after the vehicle has been delivered.
The ability to transfer self-driving capabilities is new for Tesla. The self-driving feature is typically sold as a permanent one, and typically is not transferrable to a future vehicle owner nor by the current one to
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