TechCheck+ Tesla’s big gamble: Full Self-Driving in the wild 5/3/24
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tesla full self-driving. |
| 0:02.0 | Full self-driving, full self-driving, being called a watershed moment for FSD. |
| 0:06.2 | It is one of the most controversial parts of Elon Musk's Tesla strategy, especially since |
| 0:11.2 | FSD as it's called, is not actually fully self-driving but love it |
| 0:15.9 | super cool super cool like this is game changing or hate it full self-driving will do something and it just got lucky. Use it. This is cool and I'm not like |
| 0:28.4 | some FSD enthusiasts or fear it. This is stressful. This is not what you would hope, which is like taking the stress out of driving. |
| 0:37.7 | It is now in the wild with a free trial for millions of US drivers, |
| 0:41.6 | and it could reshape the race to full autonomous driving. |
| 0:44.4 | The second tag check, Tesla's huge FSD gamble. |
| 0:52.0 | FSD, or full self-driving supervised is what Tesla calls its driver assistant product. |
| 0:58.0 | You can set a destination and the car will attempt to drive most of the way there. |
| 1:02.0 | Imagine having a car where you just say where you want to go and the car takes you there. |
| 1:06.0 | Navigating city and residential streets, intersections and turns plus highways. |
| 1:11.0 | But if the name full self-driving has you picturing yourself in the |
| 1:14.4 | backseat taking a nap or even behind the steering wheel texting, think again. |
| 1:19.0 | Slow your all. Slow your all. All geez, oh geez. A Tesla manual states that FSD is not autonomous and to quote requires a fully attentive |
| 1:32.0 | driver who is ready to take immediate action at all times. |
| 1:35.6 | The manual also tells you to keep your hands on the steering wheel with sensors in the |
| 1:39.6 | wheel and a camera inside the car monitoring how attentive you are to the road. |
| 1:43.6 | Some places it gets things right and it knows what to do but in others many the roads are very complicated and |
| 1:50.9 | there are special rules in lots of different places and it |
| 1:54.0 | doesn't know how to follow all those rules. So not full self-driving at all and a |
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