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The Daily Money: A month in a self-driving Tesla
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Date:2025-04-12 22:36:01
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
My colleague, Jim Sergent, woke up on April 1 and noticed an email from Tesla on his phone: What? Free self-driving mode on his Model Y for the entire month?
As it was April Fool's Day, Jim guessed Elon Musk was playing a joke on Tesla drivers. He'd hop in the car, fire up the feature and trigger a video on the center screen of Musk wagging his finger and laughing.
But no, Musk was good to his word.
Here's what Jim learned from a month with Tesla doing the driving.
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