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What Next TBD: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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.

0:08.3

We are on the latest version 11.3.2.

0:11.4

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, but now we

0:21.4

have version 11 and this drive does involve, I believe, some highway. I haven't actually

0:25.2

looked at the route yet. Or more accurately showing how the Teslas drive

0:31.6

themselves around. Testing out Teslas full self-driving capabilities. These videos are

0:37.8

from a user named Dirty Tesla. Sometimes his car does great. Other times not so much.

0:45.0

This roundabout is not mapped and the car screws it up pretty much every time. Now what does

0:48.9

it do? It pretty much always goes that way. And it does it okay, but then it reroutes

0:54.0

and it adds a lot of time and I just don't want to. 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.

1:01.5

Dirty Teslas car doesn't do anything too dangerous in this video. More annoying.

1:07.2

Other drivers have recorded more nervous making experiences. Here's user black Tesla.

1:12.9

Here we go. It's doing it already. Okay, so see we're failing. Failing. Failing. Failing.

1:19.0

Stop completely. Now it's trying to get over in the police stations right behind us.

1:22.5

What's going to happen? Please don't pull us over. We look drunk.

1:28.8

I wonder have you spent any time watching these videos that are pretty popular on YouTube

1:34.6

and other places of people testing out Tesla full self-driving mode? Yes. I've spent

1:41.2

actually a lot of time watching them. There's a whole range of testers. So it's really interesting

1:46.9

to see what people's experiences are like. That's Fessadeeki who covers Tesla, Twitter,

1:53.4

and tech for the Washington Post. What's fascinating about these videos is that most of them are made

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