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Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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> For a short period during this transition, cars with Tesla Vision may be delivered with some features temporarily limited or inactive

I don't understand this, if its only a few weeks why not just wait? Tesla has been years late on this in the past so it's not very reassuring.

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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..."Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving and certain active safety features."...

I only 1/2 follow Tesla stuff, but why are they still saying "Full-Self Driving" here? Aren't they asking for trouble?

I'm referring to this:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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> Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving and certain active safety features.

Tesla's marketing is... misleading. "Full-Self Driving" sounds like the car is fully capable of driving itself when it does nothing of the sort. I can see why some drivers assume it's more capable than it is. "Autopilot" was bad enough.

What is Tesla going to call their eventual level 4 autonomy feature? "Actually Full Self Driving"?

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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> Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving and certain active safety features. Tesla's marketing is... misleading. "Full-Self Driving" sounds like the car is fully capable of driving itself when it does nothing of the sort. I can see why some drivers assume it's more capable than it is. "Autopilot" was bad enough. What i…

>What is Tesla going to call their eventual level 4 autonomy feature? "Actually Full Self Driving"?

Technically that would be Actually Full Self Driving Sometimes.

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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post #3

> For a short period during this transition, cars with Tesla Vision may be delivered with some features temporarily limited or inactive I don't understand this, if its only a few weeks why not just wait? Tesla has been years late on this in the past so it's not very reassuring.

Likely, they want to use the those weeks as a beta period to gather data from the fleet.

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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> Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving and certain active safety features. Tesla's marketing is... misleading. "Full-Self Driving" sounds like the car is fully capable of driving itself when it does nothing of the sort. I can see why some drivers assume it's more capable than it is. "Autopilot" was bad enough. What i…

"Full Speed Self Driving", as opposed to "High Speed Self Driving"

wait, or is it the other way around?

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_2.0

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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> Instead, these will be the first Tesla vehicles to rely on camera vision and neural net processing to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self Driving and certain active safety features. Tesla's marketing is... misleading. "Full-Self Driving" sounds like the car is fully capable of driving itself when it does nothing of the sort. I can see why some drivers assume it's more capable than it is. "Autopilot" was bad enough. What i…

Do we have to relitigate this every time? Do you think we’re going to advance the conversation around this by you raising this? As someone who even only tangentially follows Tesla & no stake, it’s really tiring.

Re: Transitioning to Tesla Vision

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post #3

> For a short period during this transition, cars with Tesla Vision may be delivered with some features temporarily limited or inactive I don't understand this, if its only a few weeks why not just wait? Tesla has been years late on this in the past so it's not very reassuring.

Probably because they planned a date to stop manufacturing radar cars, and may not be able to easily push that date back. They may have cancelled contracts, burned down supplies, re-tooled production lines etc.

Or perhaps they just don't want to give customers hardware they won't need but will still add weight and potential maintenance. Or, cynically why pay for putting radar units into cars that won't need them.

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