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1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by dylan604 »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #70
dylan604 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a split-second after reading the headline, I thought they were claiming FSD works.

It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better off removing the 'F' from 'FSD' but that's water under the bridge. [1] https://electrek.co/2026/05/03/tesla-fsd-10-billion-miles-no...

You just said "where it fails" and then state hard to claim it not working. If you call it Full Self Driving and it doesn't fully self drive, then it doesn't work. Not really sure where the confusion is. It's not water under the bridge. It is what it is. They claimed it would be fully self driving and not some lane/speed maintenance that pretty much all car makers can do now. It was straight up explained to drive the car. Any deviation from that means it is not working and people like you willingly accepting what Musk has lied about for years trying to make the rest of us out to be the weird ones for not falling for it. I'm tired of the gaslighting.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by tass »

KaiserPro wrote: post #66
hnav wrote: post #25

Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh batteries just to give people that nostalgic body-on-frame SUV look with usable range.

> Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. old cars are bastards to drive. I have a softspot for a mark 2 VW golf. But its not fast, the steering is heavy and the brakes are utterly shite. However, if I had the time and money, I would totally electrify a golf. it would be zippy quiet and hilarious to drive, especially without any kind of traction control. However it would be fun.…

Vinyl, for whatever continuing reason, often does sound better than digital formats but only because it’s mastered with more care.

It could be that it’s physically impossible to master vinyl for extreme loudness, but whatever the reason is you can absolutely pick up a vinyl copy of an album and find it sounds much better than the streamed or CD version.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by hnav »

KaiserPro wrote: post #66
hnav wrote: post #25

Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh batteries just to give people that nostalgic body-on-frame SUV look with usable range.

> Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. old cars are bastards to drive. I have a softspot for a mark 2 VW golf. But its not fast, the steering is heavy and the brakes are utterly shite. However, if I had the time and money, I would totally electrify a golf. it would be zippy quiet and hilarious to drive, especially without any kind of traction control. However it would be fun.…

Wouldn't it be easier to get a Mk2 GTI and put some decent tires, shocks and pads on it? Steering being heavy just means you have to avoid steering at a standstill which can be fun in itself since you're actively working to be more fluid.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by pengaru »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #70
dylan604 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a split-second after reading the headline, I thought they were claiming FSD works.

It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better off removing the 'F' from 'FSD' but that's water under the bridge. [1] https://electrek.co/2026/05/03/tesla-fsd-10-billion-miles-no...

even my 95 miata drives itself on a straight flat road...

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by omgwtfbyobbq »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #70
dylan604 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a split-second after reading the headline, I thought they were claiming FSD works.

It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better off removing the 'F' from 'FSD' but that's water under the bridge. [1] https://electrek.co/2026/05/03/tesla-fsd-10-billion-miles-no...

The did, kind of. Instead of removing "Full", they added a disclaimer to the end.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70420085/tesla-drops-auto...

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by omgwtfbyobbq »

amluto wrote: post #50
Induane wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the real advantages to the (often insulted and/or chastised) vision only approach to FSD. People can easily adapt to different vehicles in a similar manner.

I’m not sure this has much to do with vision as opposed to fancy self-calibration software. At least a few years ago, Tesla cars would be in self-calibration mode for a while after delivery while they calibrated their cameras. I think the idea is that it’s cheaper to figure out in software where everything is than to calibrate the camera mounts and lenses at the factory. I see no reason that LiDAR couldn’t participat…

It probably could, but I imagine a LIDAR system would need a similar (large) amount of training data to enable effective self-calibration across a wide variety of situations.

At some point, with enough sensor suites, we might be able to generalize better and have effective lower(?)-shot training for self-calibration of sensor suites.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by cucumber3732842 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #26
drdebug wrote: post #14

Nice work, but is it just me or does this take away from the car’s original spirit?

You are entitled to your opinion, obviously, as is anyone else. Restomods have been around since forever, and this is hardly the first EV conversion (almost certainly not the first classic Mustang EV restomod either). Personally I think it's pretty damn cool. But I have always been a Mustang fan, and I know that this era of Mustang is not especially collectable. They made quite a large number of them and plenty are s…

This is more of a body kit for a Tesla than a drivetrain swap in a Mustang.

Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by firecall »

sottol wrote: post #27

I really like the look of the car, but from the title it sounds like a Mustang has been converted into an FSD Tesla ("teslafied" Mustang) - but Tesla suspension, Tesla interior... this smells like a Mustang body fitted onto a Tesla chassis ("mustangified" Tesla). I suspect that this might be more of a "Mustang body kit" on a Tesla chassis and not retrofitting the Tesla tech into a Mustang chassis + body. Still cool,…

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Re: 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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Post by loeg »

volkl48 wrote: post #51
loeg wrote: post #24

> It’s likely the first non-Tesla vehicle to run FSD, and it achieves 258 Wh/mi — roughly matching the efficiency of an actual Model 3. This claim is implausible, right? The Mustang is unambiguously less aerodynamic than the Model 3; there's no way it is achieving similar efficiency, especially at highway speeds.

The Mustang is from before modern safety laws (and feature expectations) and therefore weighed a lot less than your average modern car. A stock '66 Mustang hardtop had a curb weight below 3000lb, in the lightest configuration close to 2500lb. Less mass to move will do a lot for efficiency just like aerodynamics will. Of course, you will also die or be horrifically maimed in an accident in a 1966 Mustang that you migh…

But this conversion is basically just a Tesla model 3 with the shell taken off and a mustang shell installed over. It's mostly a model 3, including the heavy battery and drivetrain. And airbags.
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