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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by xattt on Saturday December 24, 2022 @01:50PM (#34119824)
The name FSD intimates an SAE Level 5 experience. It’s not partial self-driving or any other sort, but full. If there was any name to suggest it, this would be it.

Imagine going to an emergency department with chest pains/trouble breathing/thunderclap headache, and the triage nurse saying “oooooh yeaaaaah, I know emergency is in our name but we don’t really deal with that, you’re on your own”.

Things that are critical to life-or-limb should be appropriately named without the use of weasel words or asterisks.

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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by jdminhbg on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:46PM (#34121372)
You know there are lots of ERs that can’t handle lots of emergencies, right? There’s even a whole “Level” system to describe which emergencies they are and are not equipped to handle.
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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by xattt on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:31PM (#34123522)
Even when a rural ER receives a CTAS 1-2 patient, there is a chain of survival that’s followed to ensure continuity of care and transfer to an appropriate facility and accountability.

There is no safe failure mode in FSD that doesn’t rely on human intervention that’s intimated in the name.

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