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"If Google can't do it with its massive resources and sensors don't ever expect a Tesla to perform better than this."

10 years ago this might have read:

"If General Motors can't do it with its massive resources and sensors don't ever expect a Tesla to perform better than this."

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Of course this ignores that super cruise is considered safer and better on the same tasks that it's allowed to do as Tesla FSD by third party analysts. The difference is GM is less willing to allow it to be enabled for dangerous beta driving unlike Tesla which clearly doesn't care about consistency or safety.

I meant 10 years ago people might have assumed if GM can't make the electric car work than Tesla can't either, and yet here we are.

The ev1 was a pretty good car for it's time. It had a lot of fans. Battery tech got better. An electric car is theoretically much simpler than an ice car.

And when you look into thoose reports - the only reason they rank Super Cruise higher is because it can only be used on a very limited number of roads, and uses a camera to detect awareness.

FSD uses a camera, and works on all roads - and is dramatically better then supercruise.

source - test drove both, bought the tesla because of how impressed I was with supercruise.

Don't know why you're downvoted this is 100% accurate.

General Motors is offering unpaid but fully driverless rides in California now. They, like Waymo, are ahead of Tesla, and likely to remain there.

Tesla’s unique strength, when it comes to autonomy as opposed to battery-electric vehicles, is selling hype.

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