Posted on 11/04/2025 12:17:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The current controversy in San Francisco is that a Waymo allegedly killed a cat.
I immediately disabled the driver assist from my car. Even on well defined roads it had trouble with the nuances like giving a pedestrian extra space, or unable to swerve when another car veers into my lane. When I’d make the necessary moves, the “assist” feature would gently “correct” me to get into the center of the lane. It was gentle — I didn’t have to fight it with all of my might. But it was unpredictable.
Mine operates properly when I have my blinker on. I use it almost all the time, but wasn’t using it when I entered the Peach Pass lanes here in Georgia. I always enter at a place where no one can ride up behind me, so I didn’t see a need to use it there.
Then after countless times of the car spazzing out when I crossed the double lines I found out it was because I was not using my blinker there.
ROFL!!!
"A drug company wouldn't call something a universal, full cancer cure vaccine when it didn't actually cure cancer prevent illness," Dan O'Dowd, a software developer who has become a vocal critic of Tesla's Full Self-Driving, told Forbes. </sarc>
Corrected.
Lol. 800 miles down I-70. Pretty much flat and straight.
I won’t even use the cruise on my car.
🌽 🌽 🌽 🌽 🌾 🌾 🌾.
Once they were able to get the Tesla's computer to not run into a ditch to relieve the boredom the drive became much safer.
You couldn’t give me an EV even if the battery never had be charged.
I’ll take the sound of a cam’d up V8 anyday.
Did FSD from Las Vegas to South Lake Tahoe and then on to Sacramento. We were so impressed that we added a second Tesla a month later (Cybertruck). Yes it makes mistakes sometimes (rarely). You have to monitor it at all times. It still makes driving less fatiguing and stressful.
Just my thought. I’ve driven that route. How did they keep the onboard computer from falling asleep due to boredom?
I see you’ve driven that route, too.
Bunch of yuppies. As an all-remote team, we represent America from coast to coast and everywhere in between.
Specifically, the CEO and Founder is a multimillionaire from creating media entities.
"Dave Finocchio is an American businessman who co-founded the sports news website Bleacher Report, which is the second-largest digital sports publisher with over 45 million monthly readers.[2][3] In 2012, Finocchio led the company through an acquisition by Turner Broadcasting System for approximately $175 million.[4][5] He stepped away from daily operations of Bleacher Report in 2014 but returned to the company as its CEO in 2016."Two bucks, this is one of those "product placement" review articles, part of marketing, in this case Tesla.Source: Dave Finocchio. Wiki
And, yeah, they want your email address so you can receive :updates." Meaning more marketing. Or in the nice words....
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ShadowAce wrote: “A drug company wouldn’t call something a universal, full vaccine when it didn’t actually prevent illness,”
No, not Corrected unless you can name one vaccine that is 100% effective in preventing illness.
I just finished a Tesla drive from central Missouri to south central Tennessee. A wide range of roads and traffic. I touched the wheel once both ways. I won’t leave home without now after having it for three months.
How many hours did this trip take?
How many recharges were required?
From the article: “EVs are not only responsible for considerably less planet-heating pollution per mile than gas-powered cars, but they also can save drivers thousands of dollars per year on fuel costs. To take the cost savings and environmental benefits of driving an EV to the next level, you can install solar panels on your home. Charging an EV with home solar is cheaper than doing so using the electrical grid or at a public charging station.”
Now, let’s compare the pollution of EV production vs. ICE.
And, let’s include the cost of a home charger and solar panels.
“Unless you were 100% confident (and nothing less will do) that Tesla will self-drive you safely across the country…”
It doesn’t have to be 100%. It only has to be better than you.
This thread is strong with the Elon slob-jobbery.
As for the V-8 sound, my friend's Tesla can make them and also farting sounds using his smart phone. Still with his high school sense of humor, my friend sometimes sits in the parking lot at the grocery store triggering the fart sounds so as to startle passersby. His wife of almost forty years shakes her head.
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