MikeHolliday
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I do not know where you live, but you should watch, DirtyTesla on YouTube. I live in Ohio and he lives in Michigan. I have driven my Model Y in Autopilot, through rain that I would have pulled over in, fog so thick that I cannot see the road markings, narrow two land roads that that have no markings and it stays perfectly in its lane even when being passed in the opposite direction. Then I watch DirtyTesla with FSD Beta drive on dirt roads and through all types of weather Michigan. We are getting closer...There are issues of redundancy and failsafe operation -- missing with the current hardware and software on our cars. One city, county, state may be opposed, and pass laws not allowing level 5. When the cop pulls you over, and the car must be able to do this automatically as a normal driver would, who is charged? In an accident, who represents the car? Laws must be written and enacted. Who will insure the car and passengers with no driver? Then we have the technical aspects you mention. The car must be able to drive in all environments safely. Snow and Ice on the road with others out driving on it, will a Tesla be able to do that in the next 5 years? Foggy or poor visual conditions -- Tesla relies way to much on vision technology for it to be effective in reduced visibility and will never match humans without added sensors. There is so much more that we are not near overcoming in the real world on our roads. Rockets are easy. There is no traffic or stoplights in space and things are fairly predictable - no pedestrians and animals running out between cars. FSD even out of Beta is no where close to Level 5.
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