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As a Tesla owner, It's great to know other companies are working on FSD that doesn't try to kill you every 30 minutes or so. I was in a construction zone a few days ago and my Tesla didn't "see" a chainlink fence and accelerated right for it. I keep both hands on the wheel with FSD activated so it's quick and easy to override but it can catch you by surprise sometimes.

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>I keep both hands on the wheel with FSD activated so it's quick and easy to override but it can catch you by surprise sometimes.

Then why on Earth do you use it? Do you not feel this is a threat to others on the road? And what is gained if such "autonomous" driving requires your full attention at all times so as to prevent catastrophic accidents?

You must not live somewhere with gridlock if you can't imagine a use for supervised FSD. It's much less taxing to monitor the Tesla.

Yes and that's the problem. I think you should be completely focused on the road with full attention, not half zoning out until your Tesla randomly swerves into some innocent bystander. I don't trust that you'll react in time.

How much better is it than regular adaptive cruise control?

So I'm sure some adaptive cruise controls are better than others but coming from a BMW X5, the range of the sensors would result in situations where traffic would speed up, a car in front of me would change lanes, adaptive cruise is set to 65 mph (because we're on the highway, even if we're crawling along) so it speeds up because it thinks it's now "open road" but the cars in front of me are already slowing down because of another bottleneck ahead so it has to slow down quickly once it detects them.

Some automakers do a better job than other for sure, but I heard that Tesla's basic autopilot is pretty good already.

Tesla's FSD v12.3+ is pretty impressive. You are essentially no longer driving, you're just watching it drive - and ready to intervene if needed. It is far less mentally taxing on the brain.

There is a sensor to detect that you're gripping the wheel too, which helps keep your attention on the road.

Gosh I don't even keep both hands on the wheel (especially not in gridlock) in my car that's old enough to get a license to drive itself (ironic, given the article).

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