Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous

Re:Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous by computerex on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:22PM (#26519920)

I admire the work he does. But he oversells. FSD is one example. He has been promising it for half a decade and people have paid him substantial amount of money for a feature that he'll likely never deliver as he describes and certainly not on the time-line he promised. At the same time he is putting dangerously incomplete software out on public roads and marketing it as FSD when it's clearly not. It's endangering not only his own customers but also everyone around a Tesla on the public roads. If that's not unethical, I don't know what is.

He promised Earth point to point travel, which would require rocket safety to improve by a factor of a million.

He has been promising ridiculous things from Neuralink but with literally nothing to show for it.

Look at this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/88805317515594957...

Does that really indicate no personal commitment? He touts that he's received government permission to build a Hyperloop, NY to DC in 29 mins.

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Re:Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous by aeternum on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:30PM (#26520279)

To be fair though, iterative is usually the way to go.

We didn't get to the safety levels that airliners currently have by sitting down with books and, we got there by having the NTSB thoroughly analyze each incident.

Humans are terrible drivers, so each day we delay the transition to self-driving also costs lives, it's just that human traffic fatalities are less visible since society generally accepts that level of death.

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