TBD | Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

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Elon Musk has been promising fully self-driving Teslas to the public for years and the beta version of Full Self-Driving is already in over 300,000 cars. But as a recent recall attests, the software still isn’t ready to take the wheel—and Musk himself may be a big reason why. Guest: Faiz Siddiqui, tech reporter for the Washington Post Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on everybody? Welcome back to another Full-South Driving Beta video.
0:08.2	We are on the latest version 11.3.2.
0:11.2	There's this whole genre of videos on YouTube, a people driving their Teslas around.
0:16.6	And today we're going to be doing a drive we've done a couple of times before,
0:20.3	but now we have version 11, and this drive does involve, I believe, some highway.
0:24.8	I haven't actually looked at the route yet.
0:28.5	Or more accurately showing how the Teslas drive themselves around.
0:33.0	Testing out Teslas' full-South Driving capabilities.
0:37.1	These videos are from a user named Dirty Tesla.
0:40.3	Sometimes his car does great.
0:42.7	Other times, not so much.
0:44.8	This roundabout is not mapped, and so the car screws it up pretty much every time.
0:48.5	Now, what does it do? It pretty much always goes that way.
0:51.7	And it does it okay, but then it rerouts and it adds a lot of time,
0:54.8	and I just don't want to.
0:55.6	So I will let it go as long as I can,
0:58.4	but then I'm going to take over so we don't go the wrong way.
1:01.4	Dirty Tesla's car doesn't do anything too dangerous in this video.
1:05.0	More annoying.
1:07.0	Other drivers have recorded more nervous-making experiences.
1:11.0	Here's user Black Tesla.
1:12.8	Here we go. It's doing it already.
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