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Re: 6B Miles Driven

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Post by amluto » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

303uru wrote: post #46

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #7

I use it every single day and it is amazing! I have had my car for 6+ years now and it has only gotten better. Starting with "Navigate on Autopilot" when I originally got the car in 2019 which was pretty janky, it has only gotten better and better (with the rare regression in some cases). As of the last year or so, I don't even have to touch the steering wheel anymore!

What kind of setting do you live in? I live in the outskirts of Denver (Cherry Creek) and commute downtown and I have to intervene all the time.

I make a point of test driving an FSD car ever year or two, in the Bay Area. A few years ago it could go far less than one block along a calm residential street before trying to hit a trash bin or parked car, and I gave it quite a few chances.

The time after that (three years ago?) it really could not deal with traffic control features in intersections.

Last year it drove itself happily along the Tesla shop’s recommended route, went several miles including freeway driving, flawlessly. And then, on the way back, it tried to get back on the freeway by turning left from a lane that was clearly and unambiguously not the left turn lane, with a green light (but not a left arrow), and would have gotten T-boned by an oncoming car if I had not taken over.

So I rank it as “not ready”.

Also, the mere existence of Mad Max mode makes it very hard to respect FSD.

Re: 6B Miles Driven

#102

Post by sixQuarks » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #100

sixQuarks wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we don’t have the same definition of what a nazi is, because Tommy Robinson is a huge Israeli schill, Elon musk is friends with Netanyahu, Jared kushner, and many other Zionists.

Considering you're over here deflecting from calling someone doing a nazi salute a nazi... yes, it's safe to say our definitions vary widely.

So Nazis are close friends of Jews and Israel in your definition, got it.

Re: 6B Miles Driven

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Post by FeloniousHam » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

steveBK123 wrote: post #98

doph wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Los Angeles, which can be a challenging place to drive. Each time they give me a free trial of FSD for a month, I enable it and test it with excitement and optimism. Each time I only use it for a day or two before it does something dangerous enough to scare me.

It's interesting seeing people in the same geographic areas report completely different experiences. I think the fanboys self select for above-average risk tolerance / want their toy to succeed. I recall years ago when I still had a Tesla and frequented forums, often after every FSD/Autopilot release the boosters would declares "this is it, its finally great and I barely need to intervene". However almost as often, t…

> I think the fanboys self select for above-average risk tolerance

As an admitted FSD fanboy, I think this is correct. You know within a couple of days (or as some have mentioned, one drive) your comfort level with the technology. My wife has no patience for even a single aberration, I'm comfortable with the occasional hitch or wrong lane choice. On the highway or going home from a night out however, she's more amenable to the robot driving.

I don't have an investment (monthly subscriber), I've driven with it for years, and I am everyday impressed.