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The article answers the wrong question of 'is FSD perfect?'. A better question is whether it's 'cost-benefit positive'. That's all that matters when users deci
by nomilk 2y ago
The article answers the wrong question of 'is FSD perfect?'.
A better question is whether it's 'cost-benefit positive'. That's all that matters when users decide whether or not to use something.
If FSD reduces fatigue and allows you to arrive to work fresher, it might be worth tolerating the odd wrong turn extending the drive time by 2 minutes.
- Laremere 2y agoThe conclusion addresses your point: > Without FSD, you pay attention to the road and everything else is within your control. With FSD, you still need to pay attention but now there’s the additional cognitive load to monitor an unpredictable system over which you don’t have direct control. For the author, FSD is a worse experience in addition to costing a lot of money.
- JeffL 2y agoWhen you are new to it, yes. For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle. I use it extensively on roads I know it works well on, and use it sometimes tentitively on new roads when I'm in the mood. That I spend almost all of my driving time on the same few routes makes FSD very valuable to me. It's probably still not a net benefit if you're mostly driving new places or places where it doesn't work well, but it's getting better.
- davidivadavid 2y ago> For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle. How would you know that, though? That's the reason why at this point I can't see myself ever using that kind of a feature. The added stress of the unpredictability would make the experience miserable.
- throwaway7ahgb 2y agoI disagree with the author. I have a Comma 3x and use a fork of openpilot. It's comparable to tesla but not as good overall. It 100% reduces my cognitive load and definitely reduces fatigue. There is no question. Also, I paid only ~$1500.
- rifty 2y agoI believe the author isn’t dishonest about how they felt. But that supportive reasoning is pretty discardable. They emphasized one change as additive but glossed by the subtractive change implying there was none in concurrent executive decisioning. Experience around cognitive load can be a result in part from a users anxiety with the momentarily unfamiliar, and i think this probably is more at play than author is self aware of in the comparison.
- antihipocrat 2y agoThe article answered that.. the author experienced increased cognitive load while using FSD, needing to be hyper aware of not only the road conditions but being vigilant and ready to correct mistakes.
- ascorbic 2y agoBut as the article points out, you won't arrive fresher if you have to still stay alert, but with the addition of needing to anticipate the car randomly doing something crazy. I find it more stressful than driving myself.
- imtringued 2y agoWhy would it take a wrong turn if it knows your commute?
- MissTake 2y agoTake the example in the article. What if the car had taken that first right turn it tried to but couldn’t then correct due to traffic. The point has been made it makes incorrect choices - not all can be easily corrected.
- blitzar 2y agoThe odd wrong turn I am worried about is into a tree not to the wrong street.
- jfoster 2y agoI think some other interesting questions are: Is it getting better? Is it going to continue to get better? When will it be good enough to not have a driver? No technology that's actively being worked on is "done". It seems silly to decide that because it isn't perfect today, it's only a useless technology demo.