Listen, Tesla is not saying that FSD will avoid objects in the road and things along those lines, as far as I know. They also completely tell you that you have to have your hands on the steering wheel and that you have to be paying attention and in control of the vehicle.
Unlike my Subaru… The Tesla is not really a nanny car. The Subaru protects you from yourself to the point where the car is almost unusable when you’re driving it ( insofar is attempting to connect a cell phone to it or attempting to read a text message using the screen, or any interaction with the screen while driving…)
Not to mention that when you take a look at the toys that they put in the road, or the one guy who’s pulling a supposed child by string across the road (that’s actually a blown up doll of some sort), its thoroughly not realistic. I doubt that the Tesla‘s will stop for that anyway… But let’s compound problem by having a completely non-realistic example…
almost all vehicles that have collision avoidance will simply slow down the vehicle so that the accident’s not as bad. In all cases you are required to interact completely avoid the problem.
What about all the SUVs out there where you can’t see anything in front of the hood of the car, especially a little kid? Most of them don’t have forward looking cameras, and it turns out the rear facing camera can’t see a child behind the car either in testing… but yet I don’t see them putting out commercials to deal with that.
So I don’t really see how Tesla garners special attention; it seems to me that someone has a bug up their ass because they don’t like the idea of working out a semi autonomous full self driving system. Sure Tesla is by no means done with this… but some dude claiming “its the worst software he’s ever seen” is totally full of C – R – A – P.
Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system that enhances safety and convenience behind the wheel. When used properly, Autopilot reduces your overall workload as a driver. Learn more about Autopilot.
www.tesla.com
Active safety features come standard on all Tesla vehicles made after September 2014 for elevated protection at all times. These features are made possible by our Autopilot hardware and software system and include:
- Automatic Emergency Braking: Detects cars or obstacles that the car may impact and applies the brakes accordingly
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Let's be honest with ourselves here.
How can Tesla unleash this Beta into the hands of 100K drivers who are lead to believe their car can "navigate city streets" when we are also supposed to believe that "Tesla is not saying that FSD will avoid objects in the road".
The larger problem isn't the current state of FSD, but the gap between Musk/Tesla years of bold statements & the current state as it's rolled out to more "testers".
We are supposed to believe its both the most advanced autonomous car and also that it can't be expected to, in the general case, brake/slow/stop/steer around stationary or moving objects of any kind (humans/animals/crash dummies/vehicles/bollards/trains).
Drivers are going to give the car a little too much leash & benefit of the doubt, expecting it to be much more capable than it is.
This is malpractice, especially in light of public statements of wanting 1M beta testers by end of year.
Post all the anecdotes of "it avoided an obstacle on this one specific build of FSD in this one specific test this one time" but this is not how you would grade a human driver. A human driver that handles only 99 out of 100 objects in the road will get kicked off their insurance every year with all the accident claims they'd be making.
