That is one of the reasons I bought a Tesla Model S P90D in 2015. I wanted to start getting used to letting software take over more of the driving so that I would have adapted to that kind of driving by the time I got old enough to need it, and Tesla was supposedly ahead of the curve at the time. So I paid the $3,000 premium at the time for their "Autopilot" upgrade.
However, over the next few years, instead of improvements, functionality was removed from my package as Tesla migrated some of the Autopilot features over into the FSD they were now hawking. Roads on which I was once able to use Autopilot were now blocked for its use. I could no longer set the cruise control for more than 5 mph above the speed limit (which means getting rear-ended on most Florida roads). The turn-signal-activated automatic lane change feature disappeared. By the time we traded the car for a Model S Plaid in 2021, all I had left of my $3,000 option was the same lane keep assist and adaptive cruise control that came standard in my 2018 Honda Odyssey Elite.
My brother has a Model 3 and is a beta tester for FSD. While he finds it interesting to play with, he acknowledges it nothing close to actual self driving. Given my experience with Tesla Autopilot, we did not opt for FSD in the Plaid. I saw no point in paying $10,000 (now up to $12,000) for an option that is actually not a purchase but just a license-to-use feature that Tesla can de-content at will.
Personally, my bet is that ten years from now Tesla's current insistence that optical cameras alone are sufficient for true self driving will have turned out to be a dead end. While they figure that out, we'll just keep driving our smoother, quieter, roomier, more luxurious, and better-handling Air Dream Performance as the Plaid slips further into back-up car status.
