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Ever walk around in a crowd in a foreign country? I mean one quite distant and distinct from your own? You bump, cut off, and get off frequently due to having a different rhythm and patterns than everyone else. It doesn't matter how conscientious you were in crowds back home.

Self-driving cars are the foreigners. In isolation they may be safer and more predictable. But they have driving patterns that "the locals" simply don't. There are bound to be more bumps and cutoffs as these two groups interact, only at high speeds with tons of weight.

It may not matter how conscientious their algorithms are if the locals keep bumping into them or get continually inconvenienced. The locals aren't going anywhere, for better or for worse. FSD needs to drive like a local, only better. That's a much harder nut for FSD to crack.




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