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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by cycomanic on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:20AM (#26354758)
Yes in California/Arizona sunny weather on wide US roads with. My experiences with even driving assist on small twisty road in the snow tells me me things are nowhere close. The car was accelerating in situations (e.g. coming over the crest of a small incline with a corner at the end), where no driver would ever accelerate and which would have resulted in some bad situation without intervention. We have seen Teslas getting confused by fork in the roads on the highway.
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by daveswilson on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:23AM (#26357796)
I don't think anybody's sanctioning the use of driver assist features on small twisty roads the snow yet, are they? If so please share what you were driving - that would be interesting even if it didn't work well at the time. Most of these things, AFAIK, are in the LKAS, ACC, LDW range and meant for highways and there are mutterings about that in the manual. I sometimes use ACC and/or LKAS on country roads but only with very low expectations.

Teslas at least get better over time. If it got confused over a fork in the road, there's a decent chance that after a near-future firmware update that same car will no longer be confused. A few folks have acknowledged that they're now smart enough to slow down for curves (even sometimes a bit generously), and they are among the few that work pretty well off-highway (most of the time).

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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by PraetorianGourd on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:52PM (#26359695)
It may not being marketed directly, but calling something "full self driving" greatly implies that self driving is fully supported in all scenarios. I have not seen any Tesla marketing that says "full self driving, on big roads with clear markings in dry/slightly damp weather".

Words matter

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