montefuego
Member
HI,
This is my first time on this site, I've had my Model S for a month now. In the last couple days, I have tried the autosteer on the freeway, and a variety of roads. i think it never goes more than 10 seconds without doing something that is not just wrong, but potentially hazardous. The speed and acceleration of the car makes it particularly scary: this morning, it suddenly accelerated right toward a wall behind a sharp turn in front of me.
I am not just an owner, but a stockholder like many of you. Believe me, I do not want to find fault if I don't have to. But this software seems very far from becoming usable. When Chris Lattner, the new software engineer from Apple was hired a month ago, he described autonomous driving: "It is also a very, very hard technology problem." Notice the use of two 'very's' by someone who really knows what he is talking about.
I personally now believe that the separation from Mobileye was far more damaging than Elon will admit. Also, the loss of his earlier engineer, that hurt enough to compel Elon to sue him.
Although he is clearly a genius, and perhaps the man I most admire, Elon's confidence that they can quickly do their own autopilot looks like classic hubris. Hubris is the foundation of most tragic literature, and this step in Tesla's journey is starting to look like tragedy (waiting to happen). I will shocked (pleasantly) if anything usable occurs in the next three months, and possibly not this year. I even wonder about his claim that HW2 is capable of level 5. Audi supposedly has two radar sensors, not one. And Elon has already mentioned they will likely need to replace and upgrade the Nvidia processor. So a lot of warning flags have been thrown into the air....
I am certainly not 'angry' and enjoy driving, so I'm not as impatient as some on this thread. And great ambitions deserve some extra dispensation. But I do find this disappointing.
This is my first time on this site, I've had my Model S for a month now. In the last couple days, I have tried the autosteer on the freeway, and a variety of roads. i think it never goes more than 10 seconds without doing something that is not just wrong, but potentially hazardous. The speed and acceleration of the car makes it particularly scary: this morning, it suddenly accelerated right toward a wall behind a sharp turn in front of me.
I am not just an owner, but a stockholder like many of you. Believe me, I do not want to find fault if I don't have to. But this software seems very far from becoming usable. When Chris Lattner, the new software engineer from Apple was hired a month ago, he described autonomous driving: "It is also a very, very hard technology problem." Notice the use of two 'very's' by someone who really knows what he is talking about.
I personally now believe that the separation from Mobileye was far more damaging than Elon will admit. Also, the loss of his earlier engineer, that hurt enough to compel Elon to sue him.
Although he is clearly a genius, and perhaps the man I most admire, Elon's confidence that they can quickly do their own autopilot looks like classic hubris. Hubris is the foundation of most tragic literature, and this step in Tesla's journey is starting to look like tragedy (waiting to happen). I will shocked (pleasantly) if anything usable occurs in the next three months, and possibly not this year. I even wonder about his claim that HW2 is capable of level 5. Audi supposedly has two radar sensors, not one. And Elon has already mentioned they will likely need to replace and upgrade the Nvidia processor. So a lot of warning flags have been thrown into the air....
I am certainly not 'angry' and enjoy driving, so I'm not as impatient as some on this thread. And great ambitions deserve some extra dispensation. But I do find this disappointing.