This is terrifying. FSD should be made illegal. It lulls you into a false sense of security and then tries to kill you when you least expect it.
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Is it real, though?
In a world where people count how many fingers they can see on world leaders in videos, are we supposed to just ‘trust’ a blurry video and a possible Cybertruck hubcap?
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It’s real. Here’s an associated article:
Airplanes should be banned, sometimes they fall out of the sky and they kill people when they least expect it! Awful!
The Captain
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I mean honestly that’s not entirely fair, either. Airplanes have a team of pilot/co-pilot that are trained in flying the machine and also in operating the auto-pilot. Tesla’s not truly qualifying people to operate FSD, in any meaningful way. Therefore it should be engineered to a much higher level of competence, if the user base remains un-qualified.
Does FSD adequately communicate its lowering confidence prior to either throwing the steering wheel back at the human, or the human panicking and attempting to take control? This appears very much to be a problem that is quite difficult. Humans get worse at both driving and paying enough attention as they rely on “the machine” and the machine is confidently making decisions right up until it is decidedly NOT.
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Of course not and it wasn’t meant to be. Just a reality checker.
When horseless carriages first came out there was a movement to have a man with a red flag walk in front of them so as not to scare the horses.
Google AI:
That is absolutely true and refers to the Locomotive Act of 1865 in the United Kingdom, often nicknamed the “Red Flag Act”. This regulation was designed to manage the “perceived danger” of early self-propelled vehicles—specifically steam-powered road locomotives—which were frightening horses and disturbing the public.
Facts are facts but hysteria is not necessary.
The Captain
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Air travel is a necessity. FSD is a gimmick. Sitting behind the wheel of a car having to be ready to take over at any time while a probabalistic algorithm ‘drives’ it is a recipe for disaster.
There’s no way that the human can take over in time once FSD fails. FSD is built on a false premise and should be banned.
Good grief, people no longer understand irony
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that note of irony in her voice. sarcasm, sardonicism, dryness, causticity, sharpness, acerbity, acid, bitterness, trenchancy, mordancy, cynicism; mockery, satire, ridicule, derision, scorn, sneering; wryness, backhandedness; British English informal sarkiness. ANTONYMS sincerity.
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the irony of the situation hit her. paradox, paradoxical nature, incongruity, incongruousness, peculiarity. ANTONYMS logic.
The Dictionary.
Yeah, the obvious thing is what’s said first in the episode, and what Whole Mars Catalog pointed out:
Also, another person drove the same area with FSD twice with no issues. Although I don’t know if the FSD versions were the same. As this being August of last year, my own experience is that today’s FSD is noticably better at many things.
I suspect in trial we’ll see a longer video with more pre-crash driving.
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That whole situation is exactly why people get uneasy about FSD. Even if the system technically disengages right before impact, it still leaves the driver in a position where reacting in time is almost impossible. At the same time, banning it outright feels extreme. The bigger issue seems to be how confidence is communicated and how much attention drivers actually keep while relying on it.
I watched a DC-10 take off with no issues. Therefore there’s no reason to insist they be made safer. Right???
That’s the thing. People are going to expect “perfection”, not “a little better.” The media is going to blare every accident, especially any FATAL accident - understandable because it’s “new”, the salient part of “news”.
Then the attorneys are going to line up.
What’s that Bette Davis quote? “Buckle your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride”. (Actually she said “bumpy night” but the internet has taken over, so…)
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