I first wrote about Tesla – – – a car very few people had heard of at the time – in March of 2013 here on Slope. The post was simply an examination of my experience of buying my Tesla Model S and my impressions of it (which were extremely positive). I’ll just mention that the $90,000 I put into the car would be worth $9,000,000 today if I had simply bought TSLA at the time instead, but, umm, let’s not go there. Suffice it to say that my gushing, glowing over-the-top review of Tesla was spot-on, and that the company has been insanely successful.

Thus, being such an early adopter, it’s rather odd that only now would I be getting into the whole full self-driving thing, but I have an excuse. My car was incapable of it. The hardware was too old.