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This is model 3. You have to expect some compromises on the budget systems. Do the flagship models (S, Plaid) have better systems?
Cybertruck will likely get more cameras and a new cpu. It will also likely be a downgrade for a while.
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Not having that much situational awareness sounds super dangerous. 50 ft is way too little for safe driving.
It's not that I say 50ft is the only zone, but its my main focus, that and traffic around me (Mind you, this is all highway) With the Comma, it moves out a good bit, Allowing me to process more of the future traffic going on and the more edge cases that might come up at highway speeds. Also its vision and radar based so it keeps me 250ft+ from the car in front of me and keeps speed, it won't ever change lanes. This i…
If something happens suddenly in that range, you might not be able to brake in time even if you were driving at just 20 mph.
You might actually mean a longer distance?
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I really don't understand how Tesla markets something as "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" and then also says "oh it's beta" and "you must be ready to take control of the car at any second".
It’s not autopilot, it’s Autopilot. They’re making up their own branded feature called Autopilot which is nothing like what any reasonable person would consider to be autopilot. If you go back through the years here, you’ll see increasing care they use with their language: https://web.archive.org/web/*/Tesla.com/autopilot Look at the snake oil they were peddling in 2016: > All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory,…
Their claim isn’t about their cars; it’s about the fact that some software can be created that gives their cars “a self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver”. Even if they never manage to deliver such software, that’s no proof such software doesn’t exist.
Why is the US allowing this beta testing of a feature that impacts safety to continue? There have to be at least dozens of documented cases of this being unsafe. Have regulators just given up or are they that incompetent?
Because it hasn't impacted safety, there have been no known accidents so far with over 100k users. It's also the driver's responsibility to disengage at first sign of trouble, just like as it is on a freeway with cruise control on any other car. The problem is many of these Youtubers try to push the system to test its limits, and wait until the last second to disengage, or let it do the wrong thing (for clicks? look…
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Whenever somebody calls musk the smartest man in the world, they don't understand the connection between data labeling and Tesla's propensity to stop for nothing and crash into stopped emergency vehicles.
OpenPilot doesn’t have a data labeling team. I think you should do some more research before doing a drive by comment on something you know nothing about.
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> You are not (currently) using an autonomous car. If you think so you are an idiot. Let's define autonomous as self driving. According to their marketing page[1]: > Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time. So it has capabilities of autonomous driving, which means a…
They phrase it weirdly (accidentally/possibly/probably/certainly (take your pick) in order to confuse the readers), but all that says is that they eventually will provide the software running on the hardware you buy today to actually do it.
> Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time.
What I understand is this:
Tesla cars come with hardware capable of providing features for the Autopilot system and come with full self driving capabilities. The functionality related to these capabilities will be improved over time through software updates.
If they meant that there will eventually be software that works with the hardware in the system, but there isn't software today, they should word it differently.
Meanwhile Cruise just obtained permission to charge passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco [1]. Cruise has been cleared to charge for rides in vehicles that will have no other people in them besides the passengers. There will be no back-up human driver present to take control if something goes wrong. Why is Tesla so far behind? Tesla is generating these autopilot mishap news on such a regular basis that it…
Cruise and Waymo have lidar. Lidar can give you much more certainty about detecting objects and distances. Teslas only use cameras and have to do complex image analysis to detect objects. On the other hand lidar is more expensive. But it is getting cheaper and it does seem like it might be necessary for actual self driving.
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Whenever somebody calls musk the smartest man in the world, they don't understand the connection between data labeling and Tesla's propensity to stop for nothing and crash into stopped emergency vehicles.
OpenPilot doesn’t have a data labeling team. I think you should do some more research before doing a drive by comment on something you know nothing about.
Because I didn't see any mention of "OpenPilot", as such.
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Not having that much situational awareness sounds super dangerous. 50 ft is way too little for safe driving.
It's not that I say 50ft is the only zone, but its my main focus, that and traffic around me (Mind you, this is all highway) With the Comma, it moves out a good bit, Allowing me to process more of the future traffic going on and the more edge cases that might come up at highway speeds. Also its vision and radar based so it keeps me 250ft+ from the car in front of me and keeps speed, it won't ever change lanes. This i…
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