

Tesla declined to answer a top-five shareholder question on its Q3 2026 earnings call about when Hardware 3 owners will learn whether they will receive a free computer upgrade for the unsupervised Full Self-Driving they paid for.

Tesla declined to answer a top-five shareholder question on its Q3 2026 earnings call about when Hardware 3 owners will learn whether they will receive a free computer upgrade for the unsupervised Full Self-Driving they paid for.
Here’s how it ends: a firmware note nobody reads, a class-action that settles for a discount code, and a “legacy vehicle” badge on your dashboard. They’ll call it a hardware limitation, not a broken promise. Five years of “coming next quarter” and the cheque clears either way. The upgrade won’t arrive. The invoice already did.