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The difference is that Waymo works and FSD does not work, so it's going to be a short video. FSD cannot take a trip without a man behind the wheel, full stop. It is not any more "self driving" than any other car.

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But the person can just sit there and not continue to drive after an intervention. I don’t see why this video wouldn’t be possible or interesting.

My Honda Civic also proceeds in a more or less forward direction between driver interventions, but it is not self-driving.

recent civics do actually have decent driver assist beyond just having mostly aligned wheels ;)

You can easily find videos of waymo cars doing crazy stuff that stretches the definition of "working" pretty far. E.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKCQKBvH-A

Nobody has time for shenanigans like that.

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