Once the novelty wears off (both in the case of highway and more recently surface street beta), I ultimately want to use self-driving to remove cognitive load and provide a safer experience. The vehicle does a good job at keeping lanes at a relatively steady speed (note not great, phantom breaking is still a thing and it brakes/accelerates too fast still), but too often makes poor decisions which ends up increasing the amount of attention I have to pay, thus defeating the purpose. On some highways I frequent I can't even turn on auto-navigate at all, even w/ auto-lane change turned off, b/c for some bizarre reason it thinks it needs to get to the far left of a 16 lane highway to follow the route so it keeps bugging me even after I reject it (so again, just more of an annoyance). I pretty much only turn it on on surface streets when showing someone new in the car w/ me or driving on a long straight 2 lane backroad (which it does probably best of all).
Personally I'm not as up in arms about Tesla being reckless as everyone else, I think they make it pretty clear you need to supervise the car thoroughly. But for me it's just not really even close to the level it would need to be to provide the convenience L4/L5 would.
LIDAR FUD is what everyone talks about the most by far, but I think these are the real, actual issues:
- Side pillar cameras simply do not give enough sight coverage of intersections, no matter what computer models say.
- Camera resolution needs to be a lot higher than everyone thinks. Think of how much harder it feels for a human to drive with even just a little bit of fog or rain.
- Project assumptions based on circa 2015 peak ML/AI hype. Classic development hell where rewrites/improvements are put off far too long.
I've requested twice to be removed from the FSD now and so far no one has removed me.
It also (on the same sort of road) applies the brakes gently very often, making me a bit sea-sick from the constant brake tapping.
$10K plus $200 monthly? Talk about getting taken for a ride.
who are you kidding - you pay 10 a month for spotify and dont own the songs, you rent movies on amazon and probably storage on dropbox and s3, computing power on google or ec2.
it's no different, except for you hate tesla and think it's different.
FSD is a feature that doesn't exist.
Actually, I self host nearly all media I consume. And I own the bits much more than anyone who is paying for streaming services, buying lossy MP3's, and letting control over their life be licensed away by corporations.
But don’t get me wrong, I can emphasize, I had plenty of bad purchases as well..