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

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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	On WhatsApp, your personal messages stay private, between you and whoever you sent them to.
0:05.8	So, things like your passport number for your honeymoon stay between you and your fiancé.
0:10.3	And those hour-long calls with mum stay between the two of you.
0:13.9	Even your streaming service password stays between you and your flatmates, who still ask for it every week in your group chat.
0:21.0	Because on WhatsApp, your personal messages are yours.
0:24.8	No one else can see or hear them.
0:27.0	Not even us.
0:28.1	WhatsApp.
0:28.8	Message privately.
0:34.2	What is going on, everybody?
0:35.5	Welcome back to another full self-driving beta video.
0:38.3	We are on the latest version 11.3.2.
0:41.3	There's this whole genre of videos on YouTube, of people driving their Teslas around.
0:46.3	And today we're going to be doing a drive we've done a couple of times before, but now we have version 11.
0:52.3	And this drive does involve, I believe, some highway.
0:54.7	I haven't actually looked at the route yet.
0:56.6	Or more accurately, showing how the Tesla's drive themselves around,
1:03.0	testing out Tesla's full self-driving capabilities.
1:07.2	These videos are from a user named Dirty Tesla.
1:10.2	Sometimes, his car does great.
1:12.6	Other times, not so much.
1:14.6	This roundabout is not mapped, and so the car screws it up pretty much every time.
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