It’s so crazy how my vaporware does like 99% of my driving for me every day. I guess I am living in a vapor world where I happily pay $200/mo for vapor.
There's no point lying about how finicky it is, or the number of disengagements you encounter. There's too much evidence to the contrary.
Recently one of the biggest FSD proponents on Twitter put out, essentially, a promotional video for FSD, and it showed multiple disengagements and an incredibly dangerous blown stop sign.
Nobody cares that half your commute you can sit there pretending not to drive down a highway. That's not full self driving.
I have the software. I use it daily. I am happy with it.
Somebody in twitter did a dangerous demonstration. This doesn’t change much.
Let’s talk about a different technology and maybe that could help you understand this:
There was a time when consumer drone tech would be looked at as “vaporware”. Almost certainly somebody in the 90s advertised something looking functionally like a DJI phantom and never delivered on it. Pretty much ever you robot I got advertised as a child comes to mind.
If somebody took a DJI phantom and crashed it into a building, does that make the current, existing, very real technology into “vaporware” in your mind?
There was a time when self driving tech was also vaporware, but that time has passed. Somebody using existing, very real technology in a stupid way doesn’t mean that it suddenly doesn’t exist.
Don't forget, it was actually a comparison between Waymo and Tesla in SF. They tried so hard to show Tesla was better, but it was embarrassing how flat out dangerous it was.
Here's the compilation: https://twitter.com/elaifresh/status/1727889381309239731
But if you cannot see the issue with what has been promised, and what has been delivered, you're not living in vapour world, you're living in kool-aid world. You should be insulted, but instead you drink it up.
Again, no offense, you make your choices, everyone else makes theres, and the world moves on ... but the FSD saga has been an absolute sh1tshow by any reasonable definition.
vapourware /ˈveɪpəwɛː/ nouninformal•Computing noun: vapourware; noun: vaporware
software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.Very much still being written and designed. The fact that people are paying for a beta product is problematic to me, but that goes back to the snake-oil argument - a phenomenon well understood over time.
Hence, let's shake hands on: condensed-vapourware.
Good day.
And that's not even the start of it. Is FSD feature complete but with bugs for just basic everyday use? No. And hasn't been for years. It's been revised and messed around since the start and is nowhere near ready for primetime, and possibly a decade or two away from what was promised near a decade ago.
I understand development processes, but not while you, me, or our families are on-board. If you're cool being the guinnea pig? Cool, be a guinnea pig. It's a free country, but that will not change my opinon about Tesla's.
Let's end this now. You love Tesla's and FSD. Cool, good for you.
I think their technology and engineers are impressive, but their quality as a carmaker, organisation, and their design language are absolutely sh1t ... (and I'm an EV fan, so don't go there).
Agree to disagree.