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Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by saratogacx on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:19PM (#39423478)
My assumption was that it was to help build confidence in their self-driving by always showing you what it sees no matter if it is control or not. It does have some effect in that you start to get a feeling of what situations the car has a good idea about the surroundings and when it struggles.

There is probably a "it looks cool" factor that doesn't hurt.

As far as UX options. Providing customization is old-school thinking these days :/

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Re:How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer by doctor_eval on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:41PM (#39425380)
In my car it doesn't even look particularly cool. The visualisation from FSD that I've seen people post on the internet does look nice, but that's not what I see - I get a very low detail representation of the lines on the road, and occasionally the vehicles ahead of me. I think that's what it used to look like before FSD, but it seems like the FSD preview hasn't arrived in Australia yet.
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