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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by resource_waste on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:25AM (#40333871)
Mercedes? Pick an easier competition?

As much as European cars have a favorable reputation among American consumers: They are awful!

If you do benchmarking, you are going to find European cars have lots of appearance parts that are high quality, but the actual components are poor.

A more realistic comparison would be to compare Tesla vs Ford or GM. These are 3 companies that have similar tech/culture standards. This video is like comparing AMD to Apple.

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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by LordOfWolves on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:34AM (#40333920)
Mercedes is the first company to sell vehicles with SAE Level 3 Autonomous Driving enabled in the United States [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468

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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by tentacleuno on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:26AM (#40333881)
> This video is like comparing AMD to Apple.

What do you mean by this?

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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by ethagknight on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:31AM (#40333906)
Had you watched the video before commenting, you would know the point of the video is that Consumer Reports gave Mercedes self driving a much higher rating than Tesla. Video shows how awful the Mercedes software really is
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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by alphabettsy on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:27AM (#40334269)
It seems the video is comparing a different Mercedes driver assist system to FSD?
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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by jfoster on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:41AM (#40333961)
Consumer Reports must have done similar tests to what is seen in the video (eg. just driving with these systems), yet they came out with the result that they did. What happened there?
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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by input_sh on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:11AM (#40334172)
One of those sources isn't fairly well-known for being obsessed with Teslas (or anything Musk-related really), the other one is.
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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by daghamm on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:04AM (#40334130)
Simple: The video is comparing apples to oranges.

They are comparing self driving to driver assistance.

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Re:Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on ... by wrboyce on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:59AM (#40334078)
Nice cherry picking, I occasionally see a (ridiculously oversized) Chevrolet (Corvettes I think) on the road here in Britain and the build quality is utter shite, not to mention how fugly they are but I suppose that is subjective.

How many McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc equivalents does America produce? Beyond most of those examples there is good reason “German Engineering” is an oft-repeated phrase. See, I can cherry pick too (Europe also produce Fiats, lol, “fix it again tomorrow”).

EDIT: and tbh I don’t even agree with your cherry picked example either, every Tesla I’ve been in has had terrible build quality and been a horrible ride.

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