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Why Tesla? Why not Mercedes, who have shown real self-driving (e.g. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/future-driving-hands-off-eye...) in specific environments, unlike FSD, which cannot self-drive? Or Waymo with their self-driving taxis?

Being the first at claiming you are able to (or will be able to) do something doesn't make you a relevant contender in a space.

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Fake ass PR fluff and you fell for it. https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/19e8hjf/wh...

And the US (and other countries) authorities which allowed Mercedes Self-Driving Level 3 did too? Sounds more like reddit bullshit to me.

Well first of all, you can’t purchase it in the US. It doesn’t exist. Apparently you can order it in Germany, but even then who cares? It’s a traffic assist system, below 30mph or so, needs to closely follow a lead car, and it would probably still shit the bed if something fell out of said car. Mercedes made the conditions so tight they’re just willing to take the risk for the PR fluff they received. Complete garbage.

And with all that, not a single fucking video on YouTube from an owner casually using it

All I see in that highly edited video is a car staying in lane and making a lane change.

While there are many long unedited videos from Tesla owners in which the car does way more.

If Tesla’s cars are more capable, why doesn’t Tesla market them as Level 3?

That's like asking a startup founder "If you are so good at business, why are you earning less than me as an employee?".

The path to complex, high value outcomes is different than the path to simple, low value outcomes.

No need. A 1 minute google makes it extremely obvious which one is more capable.

I didn't link a video, I linked an article.

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