• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    The key is “with human supervision”. Calling it Full Self Driving with “Supervised” in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there’s some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying “regulations” amirite?) leads people to think they don’t really need to supervise the driving of the car.

    Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there’s even greater confusion.

    People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren’t, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.

    • moeggz@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I agree the terminology is misleading and should be changed. If you’ve ever driven in one no driver with it on can be confused, the system will yell at you to look at the road.

      Waymo is ahead right now in geofenced areas for sure, I like Waymo, this post was just specifically about Tesla.

      Whether FSD is possible with out LiDAR is still an open question, but I think the safety personnel in Austin will be removed soon which will answer that question.