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Originally Posted by Wormius
The documentary “Elon Musk’s Crash Course” is up on Crave. Interesting viewing about their wishy-washiness over autopilot/FSD/whatever they’re trying to call it these days and general failure to care.
It looks like if physically hurts Musk whenever he has to say that you need to pay attention when in autopilot mode.
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To be clear here, “autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” are different products on Tesla cars.
Autopilot are the driver aids - lane keep, auto cruise, etc, that many cars have these days. Everything I’ve heard says that the Tesla versions of these is very good.
Full Self driving is intended to be another step up, and is very good in 99% of situations. However, the 1% of situations require the driver to still be fully aware.
The problem is the marketing. “Full self driving” is nowhere near being able to fully self drive. Out of the 5 levels of automated driving, it’s still only a level 2:
https://www.auto123.com/en/news/amp/...plained/64372/
There are actually level 3 systems being tested by auto manufacturers, but not by Tesla. Audi is working on a system that lets the driver not even pay attention when I’m backed up traffic on a freeway. Even that is still a long ways away from “full self driving”
Level 5 autonomous driving is still a long ways away. Level 4 will come sooner, being fully autonomous on freeways, but even that is not in the next couple years.