I only recently found out that FSD treats you like a poorly behaved toddler, with its stupid strike system. For those who are unaware, if the car doesn’t think you’re holding on to the steering wheel and paying attention to the road, it gives you a strike. Once you have one strike, you can’t use FSD for the duration of that drive. Once you get three strikes, it’s disabled for an indeterminate time period, typically a week, but you can find reports of drivers being locked out for a year or longer. Keep in mind, this is a feature you have to pay extra money for, on a subscription basis
My Subaru doesn’t give a shit if I accidentally let go of the steering wheel on a drive with its its lane keep assist system enabled, it just beeps at me with increasing urgency, while still doing its job
Assassassin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is it FSD, or is it the volatile Nazi at the head of the company?
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Genuinely both, but the latter is the #1 reason. Seriously though, it’s like every Tesla accident I hear about is FSD related. I get that people are dumb (in general), but it’s not entirely their fault when Elon keeps/kept talking about how FSD is really “full” self driving.
Assassassin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Anyone who buys the fsd license at this point deserves the disappointment. It’s been “a year or two away” for a decade now. At some point, ignorance isn’t a good excuse. I think that point was before 2020. In 2025, you have to actively avoid or block out the information that musk is a grifting Nazi.
It’s like the people that buy into the idea that ICE is only deporting criminals. You have to either be in deep denial, or a complete idiot.
eronth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean, that just kinda makes sense. Regular accidents aren’t really newsworthy. Even if they are, it tends not to be worth mentioning what manufacturer the car is.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Or the lie that it’s full self driving in general.