The reason I ask, is I’ve been seeing alot of news and cases of Tesla’s self driving acting up and being a point of contention. But back in 2016-17 my ex’s uncle and aunt got a Model X when they first dropped and they “auto-drove” us like 50 miles without any noticeable issue.
Was i just gambling my life or has the tech somehow gotten worse?
The tech hasn’t regressed, it just hasn’t progressed while the marketing has.
Look up the automation levels: https://au.pcmag.com/cars-auto/94559/is-your-car-autonomous-the-6-levels-of-self-driving-explained
My wife’s car is 6 years old, and is level 2. Nothing amazing now, but kinda cool in 2018.
Since then expectations have increased dramatically, and the problems you’re hearing about are cars expected to have the higher levels of automation but failing to achieve that.
It seems like this is one of those technical problems that gets exponentially more difficult to solve, the closer we get to solving it. What I mean is, suppose a human averages 100,000km per “incident”. It was easy to make a car do 90,000km per incident, less so to have it do 95,000km per incident, but we’re finding it very very difficult to get that last 5% performance.
Probably the best answer
That car had AP1 which used hardware developed by MobileEye. Tesla doest like licensing software so they ditched that for a homegrown solution.
No. Elon nusk simply is a liar on the level of trump and always claimed Tesla’s could self-drive then from one end of the country to another whereas in reality it wouldn’t be able to get itself out of a parking lot.
Any claim and or idea from musl can basically be considered a lie
Probably the gambling thing. And it’s not like they wreck themselves every 50 miles, so the anecdotal evidence doesn’t really apply. I mean unles they can’t do that anymore. But I think the negative press is about some more rare incidents.
A guy on YT used to (or still does idk) upload entire FSD trips after every update. I haven’t watched any lately but the trend was that the software was improving with some regressions every now and then, which were fixed in the next updates.
Tesla recently switched from human-written code to full neural networks with their FSD system, which resulted in a significant leap in how reliable and human-like it became. Nowadays, it’s safe to assume it will perform better than the average human driver on most trips, but it’s still not reliable enough to be blindly trusted. You still need to sit there, paying attention to make sure it doesn’t do anything stupid. It’s, by far the most advanced ‘self-driving’ system available on a vehicle you can buy.
The reason it’s constantly in the news is that anything related to Elon, AI, or self-driving is guaranteed to get clicks in today’s mediascape. It’s not a flawless system by any means but it’s also not as bad as people make it to be.
Obvious shill gonna shill obviously.