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Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests
- flippyhead 6mo agowth man I was told mh Model Y that I bought around 2021 was going to do all this but it's now too old or something?
- ricardonunez 6mo agoIt seems you got musked, overpromised and underdelivered.
- kyleee 6mo agoHe at least bought me a horse
- cevn 6mo agoI'm in the same boat, this is a whole thing right now. There is some kinda class action in Europe which will hopefully make them pay up or deliver something useful. I think a Refund plus interest plus a hefty fine for lying would be a good start.
- emmelaich 6mo agoApparently some HW3 cars can get it. It's listed available for my 2022 Model 3 (Australia/Sydney). However the cost is twice what they charge for HW4, I believe. It seems other HW3 might get a FSD-lite version. There's no official way to upgrade HW3-HW4.
- readthenotes1 6mo ago"four newly integrated advanced safety tests: Pedestrian automatic emergency braking Lane keeping assistance Blind spot warning, and Blind spot intervention " Don't most cars do something like that now? I'm curious what's different between Tesla and, say, a Honda Accord?
- sumeno 6mo agoHow much did Honda's CEO give the president in the last election?
- kyleee 6mo ago10% for the big guy, iirc
- calchris42 6mo agoThe article is vague, but I suspect this is referring to FMVSS-127 which makes certain active safety features mandatory in 2029 and also increases the difficulty of some required to pass scenarios. The new scenarios require responding from higher initial speeds which effectively requires longer sensor ranges and/or lower latency.
- bdangubic 6mo agoTesla has a Dog mode
- brandonagr2 6mo agoThere is a big difference between "something like" and actually passing the tests, I would be surprised if any non vision based system has the reaction time needed to pass the new pedestrian tests.
- amazingamazing 6mo agoNeat. I wonder which others will pass. I wonder if safety sense 3 cars will pass too. Speaking of which it’s insane a sienna doesn’t have that. I wish Tesla made a van instead of the cyber truck. Americans and their truck obsession…
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- MrBuddyCasino 6mo agoA Tesla van would be amazing. Unfortunately not going to happen.
- paradox460 6mo agoI keep hoping Edison motors up in Canada comes out with a Van conversion kit like their pick up kit
- to11mtm 6mo ago... Do the Edison kits still use the original transmission? Cause if not, it would be hilarious to do that to a clapped out van...
- paradox460 6mo agoLooks like they replace the entire drivetrain. Some older Ford vans, like the 90s windstars, were built on small truck platforms, so you could probably do one. But I'm not sure they'd sell one to ya Still would love to see it. The idea reminds me of farm truck https://okcfarmtruck.com/pages/about https://okcfarmtruck.com/pages/about
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoWhy would they make something that's like 5% of market share? Tiny car + huge SUV (YL doesn't count) makes far more sense.
- gamblor956 6mo agoA Tesla still can't detect a motorcycle next to it, so I can't see how it would ace the blind spot warning test. Any other administration and I would be willing to grant the benefit of the doubt, but Musk's spent a lot of money to corrupt government agencies over the past year and a half so that he could get silly pronouncements that the most dangerous "advanced" driving system in the world is somehow also the safest. (More people have been killed by Tesla's ADAS systems than every other automaker's ADAS systems, in the world, combined.)
- brandonagr2 6mo agoObviously your priors are wrong, it can ace a blind spot warning test because it can detect a motorcycle next to it.
- gamblor956 6mo agoAs of today it can't. The Uber driver was as surprised as the guy he almost hit.
- delabay 6mo agoThis is obviously a factually incorrect post as anybody who uses the product can attest
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- laweijfmvo 6mo agoyet i still can’t use basic autopilot on the highway because it phantom brakes every 2 hours
- radial_symmetry 6mo agoAre you on an extremely old version or something? I have had my model Y for 5 years and it only phantom braked once ever.
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- aetherspawn 6mo agoMany countries in the world are on a 6+ year old version of Autopilot, yeah..
- ajross 6mo agoSo, that's not my experience with current FSD versions. But whatever, sure. Let's accept your data point as measured: Every... TWO HOURS?! I mean, come on. Put a camera on yourself or another human driver. There's an unexpected braking event at least that often, almost always in a more dangerous situation. The human failure tends to be failing to detect a real obstacle, vs. slowing for a phantom one. This is just too much. If you don't like it don't use it. But to pretend that stomps-the-brakes-every-few-hours is a stop ship kind of safety bug is quite frankly ridiculous.
- tzs 6mo ago> Every... TWO HOURS?! I mean, come on. Put a camera on yourself or another human driver. There's an unexpected braking event at least that often, almost always in a more dangerous situation Wait...what are counting as an "unexpected braking event"? I can't think of anything I do with brakes that would not be counted as ordinary braking that happens anywhere near as often as every two hours.
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- tristanj 6mo agoChina is more repressive than the United States on basically every metric of fascism/authoritarianism that political scientists actually use. Do we need to elaborate?
- dmix 6mo agoA Chinese TV channel spent a bunch of money doing ADAS tests and Tesla came out on top of all the Chinese brands, including all the LIDAR systems. Although tests were all in the day time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xumyEf-WRI&t=1203s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xumyEf-WRI&t=1203s https://electrek.co/2025/07/29/another-huge-chinese-self-driving-test-lawbreaking-indecision-in-urban-driving/ https://electrek.co/2025/07/29/another-huge-chinese-self-dri... XPENG (major chinese ADAS brand) recently decided to copy Tesla's vision-only+AI world gen data approach, after originally focusing only on LIDAR https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/xpeng-vla-2-test-drive-tesla-not-alone-full-self-driving/ https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/xpeng-vla-2-test-drive-tesla-... There's also been talk of companies pushing a hybrid LIDAR+vision approach using custom hardware since it's complex to merge the two datasets. So the answer might eventually be somewhere in between instead of companies choosing one or the other depending on costs.
- kvuj 6mo agoMy god, from this video I learned two things: - Tesla's vision only approach seems a lot more competent than the Lidar suites from smaller Chinese makers. Perhaps I misjudged how necessary Lidar was to achieve safe driving. - Virtually all of the Chinese car infotainment were basically a 1:1 copy of Tesla's. I couldn't find any that genuinely tried something unique lol
- fooker 6mo agoIt'll be difficult for any single company to compete with Tesla on scale and the AI we have so far rewards scale like no other technology before it. Yes Waymo exists, but the amount of training data they have is a few orders of magnitude lower.
- jdlshore 6mo agoAnd yet Waymo is operating a real commercial service in multiple cities, and Tesla is in just one.
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- buzzerbetrayed 6mo agoYou gonna post a source that this happened? Or are you just spreading FUD?
- ohyoutravel 6mo agoIt’s pretty well documented that this is the case generally.
- ProAm 6mo agoseriously?
- epoxia 6mo agoI wonder if we're going to see a different spin on dieselgate in the future. Where a car company collects all the data from the NHTSA's test environment through the cars cameras/sensors and then includes that data into the training datasets for other cars/sfw updates. (I'm not implying that this happened, but I imagine it would at some point)
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- rootusrootus 6mo agoIs this only when used with an FSD subscription, since the Model Y no longer has autopilot?