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Matt B's avatar

So far the only time I've been in a Tesla with FSD on (was riding with a friend who had a free month on it), it tried to run a red light. This was at night, totally clear conditions, no other cars around us, stopped at a red and it randomly starts accelerating before the light turns green. Good thing nobody was in the crosswalk.

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pat bahn's avatar

If fed and robotaxi were so great why doesn’t muskrat use it in the Vegas loop?

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DrBDH's avatar

“No.” This has been another easy answer to difficult questions.

BTW, The New York Times did a piece celebrating robotaxis that 1) ignored Musk’s and 2) was silent on the issue of profitability.

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pat bahn's avatar

I figured it was BS because of the tesla propaganda machine hyping it up

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John Quiggin's avatar

I've always thought that the best way to test this is to look at collisions where fault can be assigned. If FSD Teslas are safer then we should expect to see the human driver at fault in most cases. This overcomes problems like the fact that some roads are safer than others, so cars using those roads will have fewer crashes. IIRC, Waymo looks pretty good on this score, at least until one of them ran over a "beloved cat" just now.

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