caligula666
Member
Much like many here, I'm spending time here for two reasons: i) I love my Tesla as an electric vehicle because it is super fun to drive and ii) as a spoiled geek, I want to be part of this fantastic journey towards software slowly eating driving.
So, I'm really enjoying the discovery of new features, the evolution of existing ones, and a bit less the regressions, but this is part of the experience for me.
Now, I was never quite interested in being part of a sect. I love rationale and critical thinking too much. As such, I won't be blindly believing what Elon Musk says. I believed him once (hey, I bought the AP2 model as soon as it was released as I thought the video was a real one, confirmed by the sales rep, and that it was merely waiting for legal approval in my country!). Up until that time, Elon Musk was talking like a visionary and a very grounded engineer. And that led him to great successes. But in the last few years, under extreme pressure to deliver and keep his company alive (which I definitively have empathy for), he had to change his tune to sell dreams. Some say "I don't think Elon is outright lying". No? Well, personally, I have too much respect for Elon Musk's intellect to think that he can say so stupid things and be so wrong on timelines, recurringly. So, yes, I think he is absolutely intentionally BS'ing us, he is absolutely unethical, but this is for the most part probably legal (remember, he is smart!). So given, this, count me as a vibrant observer of this journey, but don't count me in as a sect member that will try to find excuses for Elon Musk and start vibrating for any silly tweet he makes or "we are better than any vendor out there" torso bumping. When I listen to him now, he has lost a lot of credibility to my eyes and I frequently see him as being pathetic, in its truest sense i.e. it makes me sad to see such crap behavior from such a great intellect.
So, yes, Tesla cars are SUPER FUN to drive, they are the mass-produced vehicle with the most advanced software features and this will be a super fun journey. Oh, and I can't talk about v9 as it is not released in my country yet...
But, no, Tesla is by no mean the most advanced producer of SDC, the # of miles driven means nada today since it is barely being used, I'm convinced that the lack of LIDAR will be a show-stopper for FSD (if only because you need a backup sensing mechanism and that doubling cameras will just double the number of dirty cameras), that they will certainly NOT be the first one to show true L5 FSD (not talking about L4 here), and the v9 feature set is yet another (fun!) toy but not yet anything I'd trust my life on based on what I've seen, and, it is fine as it is actually released (but not marketed!) as such since you always have to remain in control (so you have to keep worrying about the road AND of the (E)AP-monkey sitting on your laps and randomly doing stupid things with the wheel, brakes and accelerator).
So I'm excited to be on the journey, but don't BS me Elon, your spell has stopped working.
So, I'm really enjoying the discovery of new features, the evolution of existing ones, and a bit less the regressions, but this is part of the experience for me.
Now, I was never quite interested in being part of a sect. I love rationale and critical thinking too much. As such, I won't be blindly believing what Elon Musk says. I believed him once (hey, I bought the AP2 model as soon as it was released as I thought the video was a real one, confirmed by the sales rep, and that it was merely waiting for legal approval in my country!). Up until that time, Elon Musk was talking like a visionary and a very grounded engineer. And that led him to great successes. But in the last few years, under extreme pressure to deliver and keep his company alive (which I definitively have empathy for), he had to change his tune to sell dreams. Some say "I don't think Elon is outright lying". No? Well, personally, I have too much respect for Elon Musk's intellect to think that he can say so stupid things and be so wrong on timelines, recurringly. So, yes, I think he is absolutely intentionally BS'ing us, he is absolutely unethical, but this is for the most part probably legal (remember, he is smart!). So given, this, count me as a vibrant observer of this journey, but don't count me in as a sect member that will try to find excuses for Elon Musk and start vibrating for any silly tweet he makes or "we are better than any vendor out there" torso bumping. When I listen to him now, he has lost a lot of credibility to my eyes and I frequently see him as being pathetic, in its truest sense i.e. it makes me sad to see such crap behavior from such a great intellect.
So, yes, Tesla cars are SUPER FUN to drive, they are the mass-produced vehicle with the most advanced software features and this will be a super fun journey. Oh, and I can't talk about v9 as it is not released in my country yet...
But, no, Tesla is by no mean the most advanced producer of SDC, the # of miles driven means nada today since it is barely being used, I'm convinced that the lack of LIDAR will be a show-stopper for FSD (if only because you need a backup sensing mechanism and that doubling cameras will just double the number of dirty cameras), that they will certainly NOT be the first one to show true L5 FSD (not talking about L4 here), and the v9 feature set is yet another (fun!) toy but not yet anything I'd trust my life on based on what I've seen, and, it is fine as it is actually released (but not marketed!) as such since you always have to remain in control (so you have to keep worrying about the road AND of the (E)AP-monkey sitting on your laps and randomly doing stupid things with the wheel, brakes and accelerator).
So I'm excited to be on the journey, but don't BS me Elon, your spell has stopped working.
