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I would agree and have always felt like it would ultimately be the insurance companies that end up "mandating" autonomous driving, but... I have a Tesla and aft

by bwanab 4y ago

I would agree and have always felt like it would ultimately be the insurance companies that end up "mandating" autonomous driving, but... I have a Tesla and after a year with the FSD "beta" I finally tried it out. OMG, that was scary. It works fine until you come to a place with the slightest bit of driving ambiguity (and those abound in the metro Boston area) at which point it becomes a vacillating bundle of indecision not knowing whether to go left, right, forward or slam on the brakes, so it basically tries them all in short order. I don't drive drunk, but I can tell you that if the choice was me driving drunk and letting it take over anywhere other than a relatively clear interstate road, I'd drive every time.

gptgpp 4y ago
Yep... I never use mine anymore. I rarely even use "autopilot" anymore after it almost killed me due to a rapid change in lighting conditions the cameras couldn't compensate for (but didn't let me know it was effectively blind lol). The worst part is that they claim it crashes less than humans... neglecting to account for the fact that you obviously disable it in difficult road conditions / areas / situations (or it disables itself, eg in foggy conditions). So the samples are obviously not remotely comparable. Bugs me to no end that they grossly misrepresent the stats. There are other tidbits like FSD returning control to the driver if it detects an imminent, unavoidable collision, to reduce legal liability. Again, this makes the whole "FSD is safer!" spiel so slimy.