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I'm sure Teslas automated features work well in California, where their engineers are based. They do not, however, work as well in the varying climates found on the East Coast. This is funny as a "works on my machine" approach to testing, but tragic since real lives are at stake.

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My dad takes his from Western New York down to Florida pretty regularly and does FSD most of the way.

I think these complaints are just outdated - it has improved rapidly over the last two years. If you never use it why would you think you have an accurate model for how good it is in different environments?

SF is also hardly a simple environment to drive in, it’s more complicated than most east coast driving.

> My dad takes his from Western New York down to Florida pretty regularly and does FSD most of the way.

To avoid the winter weather (which a Tesla finds problematic), one presumes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird_(person)

I know you are making stuff up as I own a Tesla and live on the East coast and FSD is nowhere close to what you are describing. You can barely use FSD 4 months out of the year.

Do you have hardware 4? I’m not making things up, it works for me and I use it a lot.

I use their adaptive cruise control; and unless they intentionally nerfed it compared to their FSD, I have to be really careful using it in the DC area, as it will randomly brake in certain places.

With the latest Tesla Updates I can tell it thinks there's a grade or curve issue that is causing it to brake; but before the latest update it would just randomly brake in certain places (coming down from 70 to 40 very quickly) and that is just dangerous in the DC area.

It’s nerfed, it’s much worse than FSD

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