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I love Tesla to death and in most cases will defend them beyond the point of reason. But I took a test drive in a model S for the first time earlier this year
by aerovistae 9y ago
I love Tesla to death and in most cases will defend them beyond the point of reason.
But I took a test drive in a model S for the first time earlier this year and almost immediately noticed autopilot’s extremely unreliable behavior— it would swerve out of lanes in ordinary situations that should have been easy to handle. The second I saw that, hat was it: I would never use it again before many years of testing and improvement had taken place. No way am I gambling my life on a clearly incomplete feature just because it’s cool. Fuck that.
Of course Tesla is fairly safe behind their disclaimers and warnings, and to be honest I think it may be impossible to develop such a system without putting it into the wild before it’s perfect.
But for me, personally...I’ll let other people choose to be the Guinea pigs. The risks are all too obvious. Continuing to use the feature is very dangerous. Do it knowing this may very well happen to you.
- modeless 9y agoAfter Tesla dumped Mobileye for their own system a year or two ago, autopilot performance was worse. But in the past few weeks they supposedly pushed out an update that dramatically improved it, to the point that it's finally unambiguously better than the old Mobileye system. I still wouldn't trust it. I don't believe their current hardware has enough processing power to do the job. But it should be performing better now than even a few months ago.
- empath75 9y ago> Of course Tesla is fairly safe behind their disclaimers and warnings I don't think so. All it will take is a Tesla plowing into a sidewalk full of people, and no hand-wavy gesture at a license agreement is going to make the political and legal pressure go away.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoI have a 2015 Tesla model S and I have never seen the behaviour you describe. I use autostart a lot on the ground that it's good to have two of us paying attention.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoDamn autocorrect. s/autostart/autosteer/
- makomk 9y agoThey dropped the system used in their older cars because their supplier for it decided they were too reckless and refused to do business with them anymore. Happened around 2016, I think. Since then they've been using an in-house system that doesn't work so well.
- chmaynard 9y ago> I love Tesla to death and in most cases will defend them beyond the point of reason. Wow, that attitude strikes me as a little creepy. If you admire Musk to the point of hero worship, that's perfectly fine. But why worship a corporation?
- aerovistae 9y agoTesla is a metonym for Musk. Everything they do is by his direction unless he explicitly says "I was unaware of this and will be putting a stop to it immediately," which he has done multiple times. The corporation is ultimately an extension of his will, as Apple was for Jobs.