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All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Post by jgrahamc »

scraft wrote: post #475

Interesting for two reasons: 1. It is a self driving car, it is so clearly the future, I wish it existed now, it is going to be awesome (in my opinion). 2. Despite knowing about and following news about driverless cars for a while, there was something surprisingly (to me) compelling about watching the video. It's like you get a little taste of the full A to B that it can give you (door to door). Who wants to speculat…

I'd like to see a self-driving car navigate London's narrow streets with cars both sides and the negotiation that goes on between drivers about who goes first.

I'm impressed with this self-driving on California's spacious streets in perfect weather. I'll be really impressed when I see a self-driving car go down a London street in pouring rain, realize it needs to allow someone to come from the other direction and reverses and moves to the left to allow them through.

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Post by grecy »

RLN wrote: post #454

Looks like Tesla self driving cars 'dry steer', something that my driving instructor always told me not to do.

This advice is a holdover from the 70s and 80s when the CV joints in front wheel drive cars really were not strong enough, and dry steering would put a lot of extra stress on them, and they would wear out in no time.

The amount of "stress" they put on the tires is infinitesimal compared to taking a single corner at high speed.

I'm quite certain Tesla wouldn't be doing it if they were not sure their power steering system can handle it.

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Post by gtrubetskoy »

scraft wrote: post #475

Interesting for two reasons: 1. It is a self driving car, it is so clearly the future, I wish it existed now, it is going to be awesome (in my opinion). 2. Despite knowing about and following news about driverless cars for a while, there was something surprisingly (to me) compelling about watching the video. It's like you get a little taste of the full A to B that it can give you (door to door). Who wants to speculat…

> Who wants to speculate how long it will be until self-driving cars are common place in the UK?

And it should be able to automatically detect that it's in the UK and drive on the left side of the road... I'm curious - can you even get a Tesla in the UK (or Japan or Australia, etc), and do they make a right-side driver model?

Re: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

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Post by alexdumitru »

kneel wrote: post #459
donohoe wrote: post #448

So, lets be clear then, you do not truly own the car. Am reminded of ebook and movie purchases - you're only just licensing the item. You own next to nothing.

Just because you can't mod the car's software? It doesn't take much thought to realize what a terrible idea it would be to let people tinker with a telsa's self driving software.

I know I would tinker with it. And I'd probably die. So thank you Tesla :)

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Post by JshWright »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #485
mkagenius wrote: post #456

Amazing. It does give a feel of bus/train when the owner gets off and the car heads to its next job. I wonder if you need to _buy_ cars when complete autonomous cars start to roll.

Self-driving taxis are the future. Far less waste when the vehicle isn't lying around all day taking up space and doing nothing.

I look forward to having to insert and remove three car seats for every short trip...

EDIT: By 'car seat' I mean a seat for an infant/toddler/child.

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