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FSD will continue to be a joke outside of the Bay Area pretty much indefinitely, at least for camera-only Tesla, for a really simple reason that’s obvious to an
by karlshea 4y ago
FSD will continue to be a joke outside of the Bay Area pretty much indefinitely, at least for camera-only Tesla, for a really simple reason that’s obvious to anyone who has driven in a snowy metro: Salt spray.
Five minutes on the road and those cameras will be 100% coated. It doesn’t matter how much neural net training you do even on no-lane snowy roads or getting the car to know how to adapt to conditions, if the cameras can’t see anything it’s over.
Every time there’s some breathless article about upcoming cars that don’t even have a steering wheel I just laugh because they’re only ever going to sell or even work in SF.
- orf 4y agoIf only there was some kind of way to clear visual blockages on cars. Without that, any kind of driving (automated or not) would be pretty difficult ;)
- karlshea 4y agoYou'd be going through a lot of washer fluid spraying off all eight cameras every couple of minutes!
- BluePen7 4y agoWithout functioning spray and wipers, even a human wouldn't be able to make it further than 30 minutes where I live. Some of us live in areas where a car wash subscription is common and basically required.
- amluto 4y agoSince the Bay Area is currently a mess of flooded roads and intersections, I’m curious how many self driving Teslas will drive right into floods.