Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Might want to check your facts there. FSD works anywhere in the US, both cities and highways. Even on unmapped roads.

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  • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oops, you fell for the Tesla marketing BS. FSD isn’t actually full self driving like the Mercedes system. With Tesla, you have to keep your hands on the wheel at all times and pay close attention to the road. You are completely responsible for anything that happens. Mercedes takes responsibility for any accidents their software causes.

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  • Turun@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What Tesla is (falsely IMO) advertising as “full self driving” is available in all new Mercedes vehicles as well and works anywhere in the US.

    Mercedes is in the news for expanding that functionality to a level where they are willing to take liability if the vehicle causes a crash during this new mode. Tesla does not do that.

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      works anywhere in the US

      The system Mercedes is using is extremely limited and in no way compareable to FSD.

      Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.

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      • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If I understand that person correctly, you are confusing the two systems.

        Mercedes has two systems. One of a driver assist system that does everything the current version of FSD can do. It is unlimited in the same way that Tesla’s FSD is unlimited.

        They have an additional system, that you cite, that is Level 3, a true hands-off self-driving system. It is geographically limited.

        So, the question is, does Tesla have any areas where you can legally drive hands free using their software?

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      • Turun@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is the new system. Tesla has no equivalent to it. Or to phrase it differently:

        Drivers can not activate teslas’s equivalent technology, no matter what conditions are met, including not in heavy traffic jams, not during the daytime, not on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and not when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can never focus on other activities. The technology does not exist in Tesla vehicles

        If you are talking about automatic lane change, auto park, etc (what tesla calls autopilot or full self driving) these are all features you can find in most if not all high end cars nowadays.

        The new system gets press coverage, because as I understand it, if there is an accident while the system is engaged Mercedes will assume financial and legal responsibility and e.g. cover all expenses that result from said accident. Tesla doesn’t do that.

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      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would much rather use FSD that is limited to routes and conditions where the developers and testers agree that it’s safe.

        Compared to a company that says “everything works”, and “those drivers that got killed must have been doing something wrong”.

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      • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good luck going against the circlejerk. People hate anything touched by He-who-should-not-be-named.

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  • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Fuck this guy for bringing facts into our circlejerk” - The downvoters, probably

    Ha! Just saw this. Did someone get their facts confused?

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you stop using the Tesla kool-aid marketing terms and start to understand the actual state of the technology and more importantly legislation, we might start to listen to what you are trying to say. Hint: using the term “FSD” or “Autopilot” is an immediate disqualifier

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