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Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

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I respect your honesty and encourage you to try some remedial driving lessons to avoid being a “really terrible driver.” It can save your life and others also.

All the remedial driving lessons in the world can't prevent you from making a mistake and killing someone.

Yeah they can. If you practice defensive driving you are less likely to kill someone

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#182
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Should this be legal? Some rich Tesla fanboy beta testing buggy software with a misleading name of autopilot or FSD ont he streets where your children walk? I am not aware of such laws but they shoudl exist, otherwise other companies can start alpha testing with random fanboys.

I drive a tesla with FSD in an urban area and based on what I've seen it do, I am 1000x more scared of some rich boy driving his new lambo around hitting a pedestrian than my Tesla while on FSD even with noone in it (if that were possible)

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Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#183
post #74

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Should this be legal? Some rich Tesla fanboy beta testing buggy software with a misleading name of autopilot or FSD ont he streets where your children walk? I am not aware of such laws but they shoudl exist, otherwise other companies can start alpha testing with random fanboys.

I drive a tesla with FSD in an urban area and based on what I've seen it do, I am 1000x more scared of some rich boy driving his new lambo around hitting a pedestrian than my Tesla while on FSD even with noone in it (if that were possible)

One behavior is discouraged by the manufacturer, the other is encouraged. I'm not sure the analogy works.

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#184

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Should this be legal? Some rich Tesla fanboy beta testing buggy software with a misleading name of autopilot or FSD ont he streets where your children walk? I am not aware of such laws but they shoudl exist, otherwise other companies can start alpha testing with random fanboys.

As one of the “rich Tesla fanboys” you describe, no, probably it should not be legal. That being said, it has made me re-realize that humans are really terrible drivers as well, myself included, just less terrible on average, currently.

I’m curious how does a bad (terrible) “full self driving” car make you realise humans are “really terrible drivers”. I can see how some drivers can miscalculate and end up making a risky manoeuvre. It happens, intentionally or not, and most people can and are willing to react in a way that avoids an collision. A Tesla on the other hand is beyond bad or terrible. It is basically incompetent - driving into on-coming traffic, opposing lanes, deviating wildly from the lane, ignoring speed limits etc).

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#185

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That's technically not the correct analogue to what I said

You should probably demand rich dudes get proportional fines, that would solve the problem partially. Probably same irresponsible teen is also alpha testing a Tesla while his watching Netflix on the dashboard so no win if you move him from a Lambo in an Tesla.

I would hope to whatever God is left on this accursed Earth that Tesla dashboards will refuse to play video while the car is in motion? Or that they have that mirror trick where the video is only viewable from the shotgun seat.

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

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The driver probably has it in "assertive" mode. Outside of assertive mode it is actually annoyingly conservative. So much so that I often take manual control at turns to avoid impatient drivers honking at me as it inches through the intersection. With that said, I hate driving in Boston, so much so whenever I go there I park outside the city and take the T (subway) the rest of the way. I would not turn on FSD in Bost…

I "love" that your options are "annoyingly conservative" or "view road laws as optional".

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#187
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Abridged history of Elon's self-driving predictions: 2015: "We’re going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years." 2016: "I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem, I think we are less than two years away from complete autonomy, safer than humans, but regulations should take at least another year." 2018: "I think probably by end of next year (…

the increasing shift to blaming regulators is really notable when you put this on a timeline. Would be nice if people reacted with the historical knowledge about what Musk says rather than just the presumption that he is being true and honest when he blames them for Tesla/SpaceX's problems.

Exactly. Regulators are getting more involved in this space because they should be, anyway, and because Tesla has repeatedly demonstrated that if they don't, Tesla will take more and more risks.

Regulators have nothing to do with FSD's failure to recognize: roundabouts, stationary vehicles, trains at level crossings, or its "selective observation" of road law.

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#188
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So Tesla is supposed to mimic bad driving of bad drivers? Whatever happened to the promised Age of Road Safety, brought about by smart AI whose ability to make decisions is so much better than the useless chunks of meat menacing our roads today? >How many people are going to get rear ended because every Tesla stops at a stop sign now? So bad drivers roll through stop signs, and this behaviour is somehow at equilibriu…

Tesla is supposed to mimic human driving so its cars are predictable to other human drivers. What's the point of driving safely if it gets you in an accident? > Speeders that endanger lives of everyone not currently inside a car, now embedded in an efficient algorithm Maybe pedestrians should be voting to improve public transportation instead of trying to walk in roads clearly not meant for pedestrians. Has nobody he…

> Tesla is supposed to mimic human driving so its cars are predictable to other human drivers. What's the point of driving safely if it gets you in an accident?

Weird, Musk is always talking about how FSD is far better than human driving, and far safer.

He's never once said "it's trying to mimic humans", or that it's "much safer unless that might cause an accident, and only then will it drive unsafely (like rolling through stop signs)".

This sounds like post-facto rationalization to me.

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#189

Disclaimer about this guy Ogan, if you track his online accounts it’s very anti-Tesla auto-pilot/self-driving. Rightfully so in some situations. Also he is a investor in a Chinese competitor to Tesla (EV and self-driving abilities). Take his words with a grain of salt.

anti Musk and anti Tesla astroturfing is a tale as old as time. A lot of it has always been rooted in people with financial interests in Tesla doing poorly I always flag these topics. The comments are nearly verbatim identical to the last 20 times FSD gets posted and nothing about the conversation is interesting

I'm sure you also flag pro Tesla stories from people with large financial positions, too, for neutrality, right?

Right?

Re: Self-driving Tesla does 'the craziest things you can imagine'

#190
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aka the problems are the same as they were. That’s a good metric for the lack of progress on the issues.

aka there's been a lot of progress and people still like to say there hasn't been and that elon should be sued for fraud because it isn't a perfect self driving machine yet

Like Elon has himself said in corporate communications, and documents lodged with the SEC, for years on end?
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