• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Autopilot is a more basic driver assist system than FSD. FSD is what will eventually become what the name suggests but it’s obviously not there yet and everyone knows this. It’s just the name of the system.

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      6 months ago

      Those are really crappy names. How about “driver assist” and “supervised self driving”? Drop the “supervised” once they’re ready to market it as real self driving.

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        6 months ago

        FSD is called Full Self-Driving (Supervised) nowdays.

        Autopilot can be seen as a misleading term but that has more to do with people not understanding what autopilot on airplanes actually does which is quite similar to what it does on Teslas aswell.

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          Autopilot isn’t being marketed to aviation enthusiasts nor is it a plane so it doesn’t matter how autopilot in planes works it matters what the perception is. They could have used a more appropriate term like advanced cruise control

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      6 months ago

      FSD is just a lie because its a description of a product they intend to develop not something that exists on the car you are buying now

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        6 months ago

        What’s your definition of self-driving system then if the current one doesn’t qualify?

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          The car being able to get to their destination using the public road network without a single person in it, while fully complying with the law and road safety.

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            Well, the current version of FSD can do that. It’s just not approved for unsupervised driving (level 3) so that’s why the driver still needs to be there to be ready to take over at any moment. The current version of it near-perfectly mimics a human driver. I highly recommend to check reviews on YouTube for the version 12. It’s quite impressive.

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              Yes, it can do that. Occasionally. And then it’ll randomly fail in the stupidest ways.

              And i’ve actually looked at some Tesla FSD reviews, and every review seems to be of a “2 steps forward, 2 steps back” kind. Look at all these things that improved, and then mentioning all the things that used to work that are now broken again. (of course with a lot more focus on the things that have improved, since hype pays).

              I’m honestly wondering how self driving will evolve, it seems we’ve landed in the really hard last 10% of getting there, and it’s mostly come to a stand still.

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          The one where Tesla is responsible if there is an accident (but this user blocks people critical of Tesla, so probably won’t see this message).