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Tesla gave me, totally out of the blue, a one-month free trial for Full Self-Driving for my Model Y. I have it until the end of April. My thoughts: - It feels
by dlivingston 2y ago
Tesla gave me, totally out of the blue, a one-month free trial for Full Self-Driving for my Model Y. I have it until the end of April.
My thoughts:
- It feels like a very cool tech demo.
- It feels like a very stupid driver.
- I have to watch the road, because the cabin camera tracks my eyes, and my car will scream at me if I look away for more than a few seconds.
FSD feels absolutely magical to me: I'm in a car! Driving itself! It's making lane changes, putting on blinkers, stopping for pedestrians, dynamically reacting to traffic. Unbelievably cool. Totally feels like the future.
At the same time: I would not trust this thing to drive me to the grocery store down the street without supervision. It's both dangerously cautious and foolhardy. It once stopped for a red light 3 feet past an intersection stop line. It has also spent 30 seconds waiting to make a left turn, with no cross traffic, only to abruptly make the turn right in front of an oncoming car.
My verdict overall: it is nowhere close to replacing a human. It will cause dangerous situations if left to drive without human interferance. *AND YET:* it's a great technology when supervised, it is probably safer to drive FSD + human than just human alone, and it is absolutely & inevitably the future for all driving.
- ArtTimeInvestor 2y agoWill you subscribe to it after the free trial ends?
- dlivingston 2y agoAbsolutely not. I would pay $30 - $50 a month for this functionality. Tesla is asking $100 / month (recently down from $200).
- ArtTimeInvestor 2y agoWould you pay $100 if it gets to a point where you only have to intervene once per week?
- dlivingston 2y agoIf my commute were much longer & more stressful, then most likely yes. My commute is 25 minutes in relatively stress-free suburban traffic, so driving doesn't bother me much.
- rasz 2y agoOnly if I knew _when_ I had to intervene in advance, and Im talking an email 24 hour prior advance. Would you live in spider infested house with knowledge there will be only one deadly spider trying to bite you per week? Would you eat in a restaurant where a badly prepared Fugu fish is dropped randomly into meals once a week?
- jjav 2y ago> it's a great technology when supervised, it is probably safer to drive FSD + human than just human alone No, because FSD + human is very difficult to maintain for any length of time. That's because if the FSD is reasonably ok in non-challenging situations, it is human nature to start paying less and less attention. That's what the article talks about, crashes where the human had plenty of time to react but didn't. The fact that they didn't tells us they were not paying attention. We can (and yes, should) blame those humans for not paying attention, but at the same time we (society, and laws) need to recognize that human nature is what it is, so asking a person to be 100% attentive and ready to react when they get used to not having to do anything is not a realistic expectation.