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The hard thing about FSD is related to the scale. It’s the long tail of situations it has to deal with, many of which require some kind of model or understandi
by api 4y ago
The hard thing about FSD is related to the scale. It’s the long tail of situations it has to deal with, many of which require some kind of model or understanding of the world outside the car.
It’s the worst sort of problem, one where 10% of the work gets you 90% of the way there and the other 90% of the work is needed to get you the other 10%. Problems like this are really bad for creating this mirage that you’ve almost got it when in reality you are far from the end.
- ajross 4y agoI dinged you for this in a different comment too, but it's clearer here: you're doing exactly the conflation of "Full Self Driving" the product with "Full Autonomy" the concept that the linked law is trying to prevent! The former has value and people will buy it even if the latter can't be delivered in totality. Making Tesla rename their product does not mean their cars magically stop driving themselves, and especially does not mean that there isn't a market for people (that's me, hi!) who want cars that can drive themselves.
- spookie 4y agoI'm sorry, but there's no other way to interpret "full self driving". It means, intuitively, that self driving has mastered all aspects of driving. It doesn't leave space for interpretation in which only specific parts of driving are possible. At least in my mind.