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kungen@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Maybe it has changed since the last time I tried on a rental (about a year ago), but it felt too gimmicky to be useful. It constantly wanted me to jerk the wheel, and would randomly turn itself off otherwise. Despite the fact I still had both my hands on the wheel, and the camera sensor should have noticed I was constantly looking at the road.

And then the few times it stayed active for a longer period, I was even more bored than usual with driving, and I didn’t feel much safer. Especially with country roads, it was constantly doing the speed limit instead of slightly slowing down in the few areas without fences (wildlife running into the road), and it was also happy to drive through a long and deep visible pool of water on the highway at like 110km/hr.

It’d be different if Tesla had LiDAR, but nah, it’s not for me. I’m glad you like it though.

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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lidar wouldn’t have solved any of the issues you described. It also doesn’t solve the issues waymo frequenly has, where you’d say wtf didn’t lidar stop that? People are putting too much faith on lidar. All these AVs still need much better availability to process visual queues that lidar won’t help with.

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SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Significantly changed. Even in the last few months. I would encourage you to go do a test drive. Night and day from the type of experience you have.
The driver monitoring now uses a camera. If you are looking at the road, it doesn’t ask you to jerk the wheel at all.
Speed control is much more organic and considers turns, hills, etc. The machine vision on the cameras is different as well, it uses a processing technique called occupancy networks to produce 3D data out of the 2D camera images.

The one concern is you list speed in km, the current full self-driving software is not available in all countries and may not be available in yours, which might mean if you do a test drive you are still on the same very basic system you had before.

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