Full self driving.
They are literally proud that they did nothing.
They are literally proud that they did nothing.
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s impossible to understand how important this breakthrough is. If you have experienced experienced it, you get it.
I never in a million years thought I would own an EV. In fact, I used to ridicule them. I thought they were just a “solution” in search of a problem, and that “problem” was usually “saving the Earth.” I still think the “saving the Earth” stuff is sheer nonsense, but now that I own a Tesla, I can see all of the other benefits (the real benefits) that these cars deliver.
The rapid advancement of Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) was the hook that finally won me over, and I purchased a 2026 Model Y about four months ago. “Why self driving, when you can drive yourself?” There are a number of answers to that, but number one is the dramatically improved safety. Tesla claims their data shows FSD to now be seven times less accident-prone than a human driver. The insurance companies and some European countries that have done their own analyses estimate it to be two to three times safer. Either way, it is substantially safer than a human driver right now, and is only getting better as the software and hardware continue to advance further.
Several insurance companies now offer 50% off premiums if you let FSD do all of the driving. They’re not in the business of losing money, and they now have the actuarial data that proves that Tesla FSD is a safe bet. But safety isn’t the only benefit of this technology. Another important one is that FSD can allow elderly people to retain their independence when they reach the point that they no longer trust their own driving. Rather than the leftist “solution” of using mass transit (if you live through it) and giving up cars, FSD ensures that we all can continue to enjoy the freedom that having a personal vehicle provides, well into our old age or if we have a disability that would otherwise make it impossible to drive.
A Tesla is also the perfect retirement car, a big consideration for me since I am retired. Its operating and maintenance costs are far below those of gas powered vehicles, and you charge your car overnight every night, essentially giving you a “full tank” every morning. Using home charging, cost for your “fuel” can run around 2 cents or less per mile. There are also far fewer moving parts than in a conventional car, with almost no scheduled maintenance as a result. The one caveat is that if the car is damaged in an accident, it can be much more expensive to repair (but you have FSD doing a superhuman job of trying to prevent that, so that offsets the possible expense to some degree).
Thank you
Fatal Science Deluision.
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So many ‘Glitches’ in a motor vehicle seen these days that giving Control over to a bunch of ‘Ones and Zeros’
Does not Compute.
I've been working up a snide remark; but, yours covers it all rather nicely.