I doled out ~$5000 for FSD on a Model 3 Performance bought 2018 which has now had a new computer fitted (at no cost to me) and always considered FSD pretty much a “bet”, which is not IMHO a complete loss since the HW3 upgrade got me more Level 2 features on a 2018 MY vehicle, something which is quite unprecedented in the auto industry.
I suspect Elon may be wrong about LIDAR and for any manufacturer to get to Level 5, it may be required and cannot be replaced entirely by cameras and computer vision. Since it is not present on any Tesla today and cannot be sanely retrofitted, barring what feels like a miracle to me, the “Defects per Million Miles” (e.g. disengagements, and accidents leading to property damage or non-fatal injury) and the “Fatalities per Million Miles” (where one was enough to tank others Autonomous Driving programs) will probably continue too high for public and regulatory acceptance that Tesla has attained Level 5 autonomy with their current vehicles and their current hardware.
In both cases, both people seem fundamentally and adamantly adversarial for whatever reason.
The computer for processing the cameras will probably be swapped out a couple of more times before the cameras need to be swapped. The question will be if your 2018 car will get FSD in 2035 by having all of the hardware replaced instead.
This article is essentially disinformation. If the article actually included the relevant source email, it would be obvious to everyone that it is a nothingburger.
I mean this is obviously spurious bordering on ridiculous at this point.
I swear this whole comment section is being over-run by agents of disinformation or luddites. Not sure which is worse.
When asked about a cross-country autonomous trip; “[by 2017] all you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar.” [1]
He explicitly promised L5 by end of 2020:
“I am still confident we will have the basic functionality for level 5 complete by this year“ [2]
He’s a conman, and the cult of personality is going to end like any other cult.
[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/37652-tesla-self-driving-car... [2] https://mobile.twitter.com/Benshooter/status/133387343433455...
Their cars are attractive but they will lack the hardware for level 5 when it comes, and anyway will most likely be past their end-of-life then.
Tesla needs to explain better, but given the intentional mis understanding by journalists lately, I sense they feel silence is better than being taken out of context yet again.