Yes, Musk said that on the earnings call. But the hardware upgrade is not the hard part of self driving. At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already, which was a ridiculous and worrying position for them to take.
I think “fraudulent” would be more accurate; it was factually false, it was at best entirely unfounded if not actually knowingly false, it was material to decisions of people to purchase the self-driving add-on.
> At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already
The Autopilot page [1] still states the following:
"All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."
If you consider “hardware” as sensor suite only (quite a stretch of an interpretation, I know), then it’s kind of true, especially if they will replace the brains at no cost once they have an actual use for them
