Obviously the $25k car will have some steering control using the touchscreen. However FSD Beta will likely be enabled all the time so you'll only have to correct errors with the screen control. No part is the best part and all user input is error are the guiding principles.
Right, No Part is the Best Part. So actually, the production Model 2 will not have a touch screen, or any screen at all.
After all, pretty much every Tesla owner has a touchscreen smartphone with
all necessary sensors. In normal operation this will be needed only so that you can agree to take full responsibility for whatever is about to happen (simply tap the button that says, in characteristically hip Tesla-legalese, "Well I paid for this thing so I guess I'M IN!"), after which you're free to descend into streaming or gaming mode as FSD works its (beta) Teraflop magic.
But, if you ever need to take over in an emergency, you'll receive a push notification that says "Hold the Phone!" and the front selfie cam will monitor you as you properly grasp your device with both hands for maximum control and stability.
- Use your right thumb to select either
AI Confusion Extrication Mode
(aka Car Path-y Assistance Mode)
or
High Speed Impending Accident Mitigation Mode.
This of course, after you've been offered the opportunity to Check for Updates, to ensure system safety and compliance with the latest NHTSA recall mandates.
- Use your left thumb to adjust User Preferences or to download the User Manual that explains each feature in detail. If it's your first Accident Avoidance, you'll also be presented with a brief Quick-Start training guide; just swipe left or right to navigate Forward or Back for a quick review, or touch Skip for Now if your anxiety level is building.
- In use, simply rotate the phone to effect steering control, and tilt forward / back for acceleration and braking control (no Yoke). Please take care not to drop the device or to Hold it Wrong, as these may reduce control effectiveness during emergency maneuvers.
If you're still not quite sure what to do, there is a new Monte Carlo Tree Search Decision Mode (beta), activated by squeezing both left-thumb and right-thumb Mode Selector buttons with maximum adrenaline-boost force. This employs a highly sophisticated random-neural-weight generator to madly spin the on-screen steering indicator as seen in FSD beta 9.x videos, while auto-toggling the D/R Drive Mode Selector at superhuman rates. A set of canonical AI theorems, collectively known as Heisenberg Self-Drive Solution Annealing, prove that this approach will (eventually) produce the best path-plan. However, note that during this process there may be some causality paradoxes, vector-space labeling uncertainties and multi-object point-cloud simultaneous-occupancy conflicts leading to Quantum Vehicle Entanglements. (This exciting new development is a much faster-executing and highway-capable version of the popular feature previously known as Smart Summon).
After the emergency situation has been successfully resolved using these advanced tools, you may re-engage FSD (beta) and submit any bug reports to
[email protected].
N.B. As a side note, I've gathered that
@linux-works is a particularly ardent fan of smartphones for vehicle control in real time, so this upcoming UI should get him and the other TMC-forum skeptics on board for the next generation of autonomous design efficiency. I think it will be very, very exciting.
