Nor one you were promised when you bought your HW2.5 car.
Go read the
2017 manual for a Model X. It specifically says it uses cameras to read speed limit signs:
If Model X is equipped with Autopilot components (see About Driver Assistance on page 72), the forward looking camera detects speed limit signs. The signs are then analyzed and compared against GPS data to determine the speed limit at your current driving location. For routes where no signs are present, speed limits are determined using GPS data (if available). Instead of determining the speed limit based on signs and GPS data, you ca
But by all means if you have a copy from pre-HW3 claiming this for the Model 3- let's see it.
This line exists in both the 2018 manual for the
Model X and
Model 3. That clearly indicates it reads signs directly:
In situations where Speed Assist is unable to determine a speed limit (for example, speed limit signs and GPS data are not available at the current location), or if Speed Assist is uncertain that an acquired speed limit is accurate (for example, although a speed limit sign was initially detected, some time has passed before a subsequent sign has been detected),
Anyway, I'll be done here. We've been through this before. I'm a literalist, and when Tesla says "Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities" I hold them to it- the car should be capable even if I didn't buy the feature yet, and clearly reading speed limit signs is a feature required for FSD, yet HW2.5 cannot do it. The car was advertised as FSD capable with the hardware on the car, and any reasonable person can see that sign reading is a fundamental part of self driving, so the very advertisement of FSD capable means it can read signs. Now that Tesla has released sign reading for free to all HW3 owners, HW2.5 cars have a deficiency directly tied to the missing FSD HW capability, and Tesla should resolve that without charge to the customer, particularly given the cars are still under warranty.
You're an apologist, saying that if I just go and actually buy the "FSD" feature, I'll get it, even though they need to upgrade HW to do it, and that they never promised me more than that. In my view, you pick and choose some statements from Tesla and ignore others, but I am sure you see that differently. Our positions are clear, and we're not going to change one another's minds, no matter how much we repeat the things we have said before, or how pedantic we get about being in a Model 3 form while discussing what Tesla advertised on Model S/X and then advertised that the Model 3 has the same capabilities.
All this very much reminds me of how the Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes trial is going. The defense keeps trying to blame the investors for not doing due diligence and believing what Holmes told them, and the judge keeps reminding them that insufficient due diligence on the victim's end is not a defense against purposefully misleading someone. We'll see what the jury thinks soon, closing arguments are today.
