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Re:Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after te... by akerl_ on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:54PM (#28983076)
I bought FSD for my Model 3 and my mind is not blown. Amusingly, I prefer the known behavior/bugs of the pre-beta to the totally bananas mistakes that the beta makes by trying to be smart. And that’s a bad state for Tesla to be in, because other manufacturers are catching up.

Automatic lanekeeping on the highway and stoplight stop/go were groundbreaking when Tesla launched them, and these are the features that I get the most value from. The rest of FSD as currently demonstrated is parlor tricks.

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Re:Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after te... by 01100011 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:05PM (#28983134)
> Automatic lanekeeping on the highway and stoplight stop/go were groundbreaking when Tesla launched them

Automatic lanekeeping was originally made by Mobileye and available on Teslas and Nissans. I don't know about stoplight stop/go, but perhaps that is one of the reasons Teslas randomly make unwarranted stops?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_centering

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Re:Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after te... by akerl_ on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:10PM (#28983172)
Your link agrees with me. Tesla provided some of the first commercially available lane centering in the Model S/X.

For the stoplights, no, phantom braking sadly predates that feature. It occurs during normal driving when the car erroneously perceives a phantom object appearing in front of the car and hits the brakes. The stoplight response, in my experience, is actually much more reliable, inclusive of stopping for reds / stopsigns, and automatically proceeding if there is a green light and a car in front of you.

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