Then what?

azrving wrote:

Reisender wrote:

2oldman wrote:

Reisender wrote:


We have full self drive (beta) on our car. It’s probably a few years away from being a level 5 autonomous system like that but it’s actually not far off. We like it. Mostly voice control. Kinda cool.

Excellent. How many traffic deaths and injuries are caused by humans every year...?

Yah true. We have had some enlightening situations. Couple weeks ago we couldn’t figure out why it did a hard brake. Bad winter visibility. We didn’t see the lady approaching the crosswalk, but Jarvis did. (My wife’s name for her Tesla). Jarvis waited until she crossed and then continued on.

Last week it turned o to a street with a delivery van that was stopped. It was tight as it had to go between the delivery van and a parked car on the other side, it slowed down, put the mirrors in, went thru, put the mirrors out and continued on its way. Very cool.

It’s not perfect and still has a few intersections it doesn’t handle well but it improves with every update. (About once per month). When the lines are poor or snow covered it struggles. It needs constant monitoring and one must be ready to take over at any time. But it’s a level 2 system and that’s the way it is…for now.

Hold on now. Lol.
Let me be sure that I understand what you are saying. While it’s in autonomous mode you have to be ready to respond at any moment? If it’s in autonomous mode that would seem to indicate that the driver is relaxing and paying attention to other things. If you had to take over in a flash wth do you do? If you were not paying attention to everything that you would be paying attention to while you were driving how can you instantly know everything that’s going on when you have to take over

It seems safer to just drive it and eliminate that possibility. Nothing wrong with high tech tools to sense things and help the driver but remain in control

No. It’s Beta and you must qualify for the beta program by demonstrating to the AI that you are a safe non aggressive driver. Your eyes are monitored and your hands must be on the wheel. After x amount of miles without aggressive braking or driving you are granted FSD full beta access. There are about 285,000 beta testers. It took about 3 weeks of monitored driving for us to get full beta access.

Its still only classified as a level 2 system that needs constant monitoring. Hands must be on the steering wheel and you must be looking at the road. Otherwise you get a warning and the system will disengage. If you do that 5 times you are denied access to the beta features until you re qualify by having x amount of miles monitored safe driving.

It gets better all the time, but like I say it still struggles with a few intersections in our city. It used to have problems with traffic circles but those have gotten a lot better with the last two updates. I would say most intervention now are when it proceeds to cautiously and we just don’t want to hold up traffic. It still does that on some double traffic circles. The people behind you have no idea it is an AI driving.

For whatever reason it is more confident at night and pretty much all beta testers have noticed that. Less shadows maybe? Not sure. But it is noticeable.

Oh, and as soon as you hook up a trailer to the 7 pin connector the FSD beta is disabled. So obviously we don’t use it when pulling our RV.

Hope that explains it.

Cheers.