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Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles

It gave pedestrians room but ran red lights and crossed into oncoming traffic.

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/t…

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should Tesla not be fined to hell and back for fraud? This is not full self driving. This is driver assist. And it sounds like it shouldn't be allowed on the roads!
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first rule of driving is don’t hit anything, and the second rule is don’t put yourself in a situation where you will get hit.
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Who would trust Elon Musk to drive their car ? He can't even run a social media site without crashing it.
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“its seeming infallibility in anyone's first five minutes of FSD operation breeds a sense of awe that unavoidably leads to dangerous complacency”
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But Elon's spying works fine: electrek.co/2023/09/15/musk-wa…
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Don't forget, Tesla Robotaxis will be unveiled on Oct. 10th. Can't wait to see these amazing automated murder devices!
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Did anyone ever consider that it is the driving itself that keeps drivers alert? Unless it's fully autonomous, what's the point and how safe is it once you consider waning attention?
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This fits with my experience as an owner*.

I’ve told friends it’s simultaneously impressive as hell and also not nearly ready. And it’s because the errors it does make are broadly not predictable. Like it’s fine, it’s good, it’s even really amazing sometimes, then suddenly WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! The driver really must remain vigilant.

It’s certainly not clear to me the approach they’re taking will get there eventually. It might? But…?

And there’s no way they’re changing the whole tech stack now obviously. So if not they’ll still try until the bitter end.

*Bought it before we knew he was this horrible

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In the UK that's either "careless driving" or "dangerous driving", depending on how a court views it. Either is enough to put your licence at risk. And using full self-drive is automatically "driving without due care and attention" if you rely on it to the extent that you're not in full control at all times.
If it works to a far higher standard than a well above average driver in all possible circumstances, allow it. Otherwise get it off the damn public roads.
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🥥 Elon Musk's brilliant strategy for self-driving Teslas: Alpha test with live humans in uncontrolled environments.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong? 🥥
#Musk #Tesla #AlphaTesting #Elon #DangerWillRobinson #TuckersBalls
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13 miles is still quite an achievement, but it needs to be 1,000,000 miles at least before it can be considered read for public use.