Comment by dgellow | Hacker News Reader

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In case people are interested, this video from March 16th gives a good idea of the current state of tesla self-driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs

I'm not that knowledgeable about Tesla, from what I got they have a "Tesla Full Self Driving Beta" program (which has a terrible name as it isn't fully-autonomous and requires drivers to take over from time to time).

Edit: I'm not sharing this video to say that their program is good or bad, I don't have a dog in this fight and personally do not care about the topic that much. I thought people here would be interested to see how their program behaves in a somewhat realistic scenario. The result seems to be mixed.

Yes, but this video of two days earlier is also its current state, and it's pretty incredible: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1370974296730824704...

Cherry-picking best or worst-case scenarios isn't particularly helpful - in terms of plotting likely future scenarios, which is what ARK is doing here, the point is that it's still unfinished but improving pretty darn fast.

I'm not sure how to read your comment. Are you saying that the video I shared is cherry-picking? It looks like a mix of good and bad situations for the self-driving assist, more like a realistic look at how it performs in the real world.

I guess what I'm saying is that as a Tesla owner I don't find this video representative of normal use - in general FSD is very good. The other video on the other hand is much better than my experience of everyday use. Best case or worst case scenarios aren't representative of the "current state", imo.

Yeah I've seen that one. It's the edge cases which will take a lot of time to smoothen out. Aside from never being able to notice things like someone walking on the sidewalk with headphones on who looks like he's going to cross the street in front of your silent EV. Or a bicyclist hidden behind a bus etc.

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