Dang:
Also available on subscription for $200 a month. Or you could lease an entire car for that price, hahaha!
Also available on subscription for $200 a month. Or you could lease an entire car for that price, hahaha!
Tesla says Autopilot is preventing ~40 crashes per day from wrong pedal errors alone:
Tesla says Autopilot is preventing ~40 crashes per day from wrong pedal errors alone
Tesla claims Autopilot is currently preventing about 40 crashes per day just by correcting drivers pressing the wrong pedal, something...electrek.co
Given Tesla's history of say, embellishment, I'd view their statements with some skepticism. As for FSD, you'd have to be a moron to pay for it right now: $15000 for the Duke Nukem Forever of auto technology.Tesla says Autopilot is preventing ~40 crashes per day from wrong pedal errors alone:
Tesla says Autopilot is preventing ~40 crashes per day from wrong pedal errors alone
Tesla claims Autopilot is currently preventing about 40 crashes per day just by correcting drivers pressing the wrong pedal, something...electrek.co
Given Tesla's history of say, embellishment, I'd view their statements with some skepticism. As for FSD, you'd have to be a moron to pay for it right now: $15000 for the Duke Nukem Forever of auto technology.
Autopilot and FSD are 2 different things. Curently they charge $6K for Enhanced Autopilot, listing the features "Autopark" (borderline useless), Summon, Enhanced Summon, Autolane change and navigate. Tesla is very vague about differentiating Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot, not sure if the safety features are locked behind the "Enhanced" price tag?
FSD is useless until they take it out of beta and let anyone use it without requiring some minimum driver score.
So, I'm not sure if it was an error given that my Safety Score is usually between an 80-90, but I got my FSD option enabled last week in an update. I decided to give it a try a couple days later. I mean... it was only Black Friday; what could possibly go wrong? The car came up to a stop sign where the perpendicular side was on an incline, and I was set to turn right onto that perpendicular direction going up the hill. It was at that point where I had to stop FSD, because it was attempting to pull out in front of an oncoming car. I don't know if it has a weird limitation in regard to hills, but it did not seem to notice the vehicle that was coming from further down the hill. I can say for certain that it has no ability to notice speed bumps as it went over them at full speed. It also didn't really want to move over enough for a pedestrian in the road (the road in question lacks sidewalks), which is another instance where I took over and made space.
I tried it again later to see how it would handle a left-hand turn merging onto a road with a rather wide mouth, and I wasn't entirely impressed with its turn line. I might try it again to see if it does better, but from what I saw (before I took over), the line was too far to the right and was going to veer into the wrong lane (still the correct direction though).
Overall, I'm fairly indifferent. I honestly didn't expect much, and I kind of got what I expected. Frankly, I'm glad I only paid $3k for that and not $15k!
It looks like they've changed their Autopilot setup since I've last looked. In the past, Enhanced Autopilot was the only option that pretty much included every smart option. Eventually, they changed it so the basic options (like Traffic-Assisted Cruise Control) were moved under the renamed "Autopilot", and the fancy options like Summon and Autopark were moved under Full Self-Driving. When they did that, they pretty much gave everyone the basic automations for free, and required FSD if you wanted the fancy yet limited "it drives on its own" stuff.
Looking at it now, it looks like they've taken the majority of the items that were in the original Enhanced Autopilot and put them back into a new Enhanced Autopilot package. So, essentially, the only difference that I see between early Tesla and now is that you pay a lot more (5k vs 6k, and 3k vs 15k) and the more basic automations (e.g., TACC) are baked in.
Would it be worth flipping your 3 with FSD for a Performance model?
If I wanted another Tesla, I think a slightly older Model S would be the best idea. It's not necessarily the cheapest idea, but given that the Model S would pretty much fix all of my complaints that I have with the Model 3, it's really the best route. (It would fix the lack of a dash cluster and the lack of physical controls for the wipers and lights.)
I have a Cybertruck on pre-order, but I worry about a lot of stuff:
1. If someone rear-ends you in a fender-bender...like how do you even fix that?
2. With the bulletproof windows, if you get in an accident & flip over or fall into a river & the doors get stuck, you can't just use a window-breaker tool to get out, so what do you do?
3. Are they going to come with round steering wheels? Looks like the only option is the yoke & I'm not mentally onboard with that yet lol
With the current models:
1. My current rental doesn't have a charging spot & only some of my clients have chargers, so charging would be a hassle. A 500-mile Cybertruck battery would help tho.
2. The nearest Tesla dealership is like an hour away, whereas Ford dealerships are everywhere, so getting quick service is a lot easier.
3. No stick-shift option =D
1. If someone rear-ends you in a fender-bender...like how do you even fix that?
I have a Cybertruck on pre-order, but I worry about a lot of stuff:
1. If someone rear-ends you in a fender-bender...like how do you even fix that?
2. With the bulletproof windows, if you get in an accident & flip over or fall into a river & the doors get stuck, you can't just use a window-breaker tool to get out, so what do you do?
3. Are they going to come with round steering wheels? Looks like the only option is the yoke & I'm not mentally onboard with that yet lol
With the current models:
1. My current rental doesn't have a charging spot & only some of my clients have chargers, so charging would be a hassle. A 500-mile Cybertruck battery would help tho.
2. The nearest Tesla dealership is like an hour away, whereas Ford dealerships are everywhere, so getting quick service is a lot easier.
3. No stick-shift option =D
Tesla's Promise of a Fully Self-Driving Car Merely an 'Aspirational Goal,' Lawyers Say
“Mere failure to realize a long-term, aspirational goal is not fraud,” Tesla’s lawyers wrote in a November 28 court filing, asking that the suit be dismissed.
The lawsuit cited numerous times when Musk and others at Tesla had stated that, within a year or two, the cars would be fully self-driving thanks to software updates. For instance, in a 2016 Tweet, Musk stated that a Tesla car would be able to drive itself across the United States “by next year,” the suit said.
Later that year, Tesla published a video, also cited in the lawsuit, which the automaker said showed one of its cars driving itself. The video was misleading, the lawsuit said, because according to Tesla employees involved in the video, numerous attempts had to be made before the car could be shown to maneuver through the route without obvious problems.
Just failing to meet Musk’s own expectations isn’t evidence that anyone purposely tried to deceive consumers, which would constitute fraud, Tesla said in its filing. Moreover, according to Tesla, buyers should have been well aware of the limitations of these systems before purchasing them, based on Tesla’s disclaimers on its website and owners’ manuals. Also, Tesla said, the plaintiffs didn’t show that, even if Tesla’s systems were involved in crashes, they were involved in more crashes than an unaided human driver would have when operating under the same conditions.
Tesla ordered to upgrade self-driving computer for free due to ‘false advertising’
"However, things got more complicated last year when Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month. Instead of outright buying the Full Self-Driving package, which now costs $15,000, Tesla owners had the opportunity pay $199 a month to get the features available under the package. The problem is that for owners who didn’t have the Full Self-Driving computer retrofit, Tesla was asking for $1,500 (later reduced to $1,000) to get the computer before they could get a FSD subscription."
Have to laugh at Tesla's argument. By that logic, companies can make any outlandish claim so long as the hardware is technically capable and they might accomplish that goal. Our car will solve pi and do your taxes! When our software team gets around to them... really, honest.
Heh. That reminded me of this...Coca-Cola's Lawyers Claim Consumers Are Dumb To Believe Vitaminwater is Healthy
A four-year-old lawsuit concerning the false advertising of Vitaminwater as a healthy beverage continues to cause problems for Coca-Cola.www.prnewsonline.com
Heh. That reminded me of this...
You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers
Fox News viewers don't expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump.www.npr.org