I don't understand what y'all consumer types are doing in an advanced Beta program.
Bona fide Beta Testers know something about software development, and know all about imperfections.
I do understand that if y'all are evaluating the Tesla
NOA on city streets Beta from the perspective of an end user who's buying Cadillac commercials, you know "drive hands-free", it's disappointing. You should simply change religions. Maybe get one of them
Caddies sight unseen. Take it for a spin in full Super/Ultra Cruise on city streets that it's never encountered before and tell us all about it.
Gentlepersons! Here's the deal.
Nobody understood at the outset the magnitude of the task. But now that it's clear, do you really think the automation team at Tesla is a bunch of chimps spinning their wheels, and everybody else is doing it better? "
the car can’t even reliably do simple things like respond to street signs and street lights or react to traffic"? Really? On what planet is that "simple things"?
I got the "FSD" pre-upgrade after driving in NOA on the freeways (with EAP) for nearly a year and finding it very useful 95% of the time.
What matters isn't grading the performance, it's using it for what it does. I'm a hardware/software developer. I see NOA as 95% full, not 5% empty. As an engineer I'm impressed with the progress, and (as a consumer) I'm delighted to have it and use it. But that's just me.
Now with "FSD" I pre-purchased the upgrade knowing darned well that
initially it would be useful on city streets maybe 1/4 of the time. First of all because for 3/4 of my city drives I don't need it, unlike on the freeways. And the difficulties in this environment are nearly insurmountable. So if I'm using it (cautiously) where it's not optimal, I sure as heck know it, and it's only to provide useful feedback to the developers, not to complain about its imperfections - to do what? to inform the unaware ? Trust me,
bona fide Beta Testers know all about imperfections.