While there's still a way to go, I think MOST people have NO IDEA how close Tesla is to having a real, fully-working product.
Previously, their FSD (full self-driving) Beta software was hand-coded by programmers, and it was not bad, but it could also be very "robotic." All versions of FSD through v11 were this hand-coded software.
For FSD v12, that hand-coded software was completely thrown out, in favor of AI-based code. The AI is "trained" by analyzing videos of GOOD drivers out in the world correctly handling all of the weird situations that come up in the real world. And because there are millions of Tesla cars driving around in the world, Tesla has orders of magnitude more data than anyone else. In fact, Tesla's biggest problem right now is a lack of computing power, despite huge orders of NVidia AI processors that they've got online. Tesla has also designed their own AI processor and is having them produced, but they don't have nearly enough of them yet - a problem that is rapidly being solved. These super-computers will do nothing except analyze driving videos and "learn" the right things to do in various situations.
FSD is *still* a Beta product - it's still in testing and not yet "good enough" to be used completely unattended - but it's startlingly close and it's improving daily as problem areas are found and more videos of that problem are fed into the super-computers. It's really only the rare "edge cases" that are still sometimes a problem, and that's what is being worked on. The pace of this work improves as more computing power comes online, allowing the AI to process videos faster. We're definitely in the "home stretch", and I suspect that 2025 will be the year that FSD leaves "beta" and becomes a real product.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1hSjfmBgI8gAs to the other self-driving efforts - they're a joke. They barely work, and they only work in very specific, relatively small areas that are pre-mapped with high-precision LIDAR. It's kind of like the little cars at Disneyland that run on a track - they can only work on their little fixed area, and even then, they require $100,000 of sensors bolted on to whatever car they're using, which isn't even remotely scalable. Meanwhile, a brand new $38,000 Tesla Model 3 has all the sensors and processors it needs already on-board. There's really no comparison.
Yes, I can't wait until we ha e driverless cars. i will just sit and watch a movie or something.
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Of course not I don't trust the technology at all and I don't trust the people in charge of it either.
As long as I can grab the wheel and push the break when it all goes wrong.
Depends. Where are we driving? How fast? What's the traffic like?
No thank you very much.
great photos!
Nope
Maybe in 10 years.
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