Realistically, how many chances do you think the average person is going to give the alg to drive them into an object at 70mph?
Has there been a significant customer side advancement in Tesla autopilot in 10 years? From what I can tell, all Elon has accomplished is becoming the new Prius- a sprinkling of Teslas blocking the left lane of our highways (ask any Autopilot aficionado, that’s the safest place to use it) while the human inside watches TikTok.
> Has there been a significant customer side advancement in Tesla autopilot in 10 years?
Not super interested in whether you're "impressed" or not. I think the video answers your question. The part of the video you chose to point out (poor behavior in parking lots at the end of a drive caused by bad cell signal) says a lot on its own, imo.
Autopilot of 10 years ago was lane keeping and changing on highways only. Now the car does a drive from point A to point B with some erroneous behavior in the end in the parking lot, and you're like "huh, what's the difference?"
Clearly you are not coming into this with an open mind.
The video does answer my question. It shows a Tesla vehicle that (still) requires human oversight and intervention to navigate point to point. At around 6m20s in the person behind the wheel says "OK it's going the wrong way into that one way entrance again" as he puts his hands on the wheel and takes over from the system.
Tesla engineers may have made engineering progress towards their goal. Maybe they make it N miles further before requiring intervention. Maybe they can successfully navigate an additional M% of some region without issue. That is progress! However that progress does not necessarily translate into something that customers will consider an advancement or valuable. Certainly not all customers.
There is no value to me in a semi-autonomous driving platform that requires my attention and feedback. So I would not consider the performance captured in the video to be a "significant customer side advancement". The fact that others might disagree and find value in the video is OK with me. We need only to be honest with ourselves and others when describing the system performance.
There is another company actively running an autonomous fleet every day. That is impressive to me.
> Clearly you are not coming into this with an open mind.
I think it's great that you want to cheerlead for Tesla. "FSD" and "Autopilot" just don't live up to their names yet. I'm sure eventually they'll ship something worthy of the trademark and make all your evangelism worth it.
Has there been a significant customer side advancement in Tesla autopilot in 10 years? From what I can tell, all Elon has accomplished is becoming the new Prius- a sprinkling of Teslas blocking the left lane of our highways (ask any Autopilot aficionado, that’s the safest place to use it) while the human inside watches TikTok.