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No explanation. ================================================================================= In August 2024, while lawsuits against Tesla were building, the company quietly deleted the 2016 blog post that stated all Tesla cars have full self-driving hardware. In October 2025, Tesla changed the wording in its Q3 2025 shareholder letter to the legally meaningless "designed for autonomy". A pattern of deliberate evidence removal. “ > All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware. The original blog post ---------------------- On 19 October 2016, Tesla published a blog post titled "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware". It stated plainly that every vehicle Tesla produced from that point forward contained all the hardware needed for full self-driving capability. No reservation about future hardware replacement. Full self-driving would be enabled through software updates alone. That blog post was the foundation of Tesla's FSD marketing for years. It was the source Tesla itself referenced, journalists linked to, and consumers relied on when making their purchase decision. What Tesla did -------------- In August 2024, Tesla removed all blog posts published before 2019 from its website. That included the 2016 post that documented the hardware promise. Tesla gave no explanation. Published no replacement statement. Issued no updated position on the hardware suitability of older vehicles. The deletion happened while lawsuits against Tesla over FSD promises to HW3 owners were building in multiple countries. Fourteen months later: the wording changes too ---------------------------------------------- In the Q3 2025 shareholder letter (22 October 2025), Tesla changed how it described the hardware capability of its vehicles. The original promise read: > All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware. The new wording: > Every Tesla vehicle delivered today is designed for autonomy. The difference is legally significant. "Have the hardware needed" is a concrete commitment: the hardware is in there, ready to go. "Designed for autonomy" only says the car was designed with autonomy in mind, without any guarantee that the current hardware is actually sufficient. Electrek reported that this change occurred while class actions against Tesla over the same HW3/FSD promises were being prepared in multiple countries (US, China, Australia). Why this is so damaging ----------------------- 1. **It's a pattern.** First delete the blog post (August 2024), then soften the language (October 2025). Tesla isn't trying to fix the problem. Tesla is trying to erase the evidence of the promise. 2. **The evidence doesn't disappear.** The original blog post is archived via Wayback Machine and has been cited and screenshotted by multiple independent media outlets. Tesla's deletion has no legal effect on the validity of the original promise. 3. **The timing speaks for itself.** Deleting while lawsuits are building isn't routine website housekeeping. It's deliberate information control. 4. **It strengthens the misleading marketing argument.** A company that deletes its own promises at the moment it's being held to them is confirming that it knows those promises aren't being met. Source verification ------------------- The original blog post is archived: - https://web.archive.org/web/20240730071548/https://tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware Electrek article on the deletion: - https://electrek.co/2024/08/24/tesla-deletes-its-blog-post-stating-all-cars-have-self-driving-hardware/ Electrek article on the Q3 2025 language change: - https://electrek.co/2025/10/22/tesla-changes-all-cars-have-self-driving-hardware-wording-as-hw3-lawsuits-loom/ Published on 13 April 2026 [Previous 6\. Musk said it himself. 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