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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by dham on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:55PM (#46804713)
99% of my driving is FSD. Yea it took a while but with FSD 14 it's finally here. No other consumer self-driving is close. If you saw what this thing could do you would never not use it. It's like driving without a seatbelt now. You would never not want to be driving without it.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by tapoxi on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:25PM (#46804940)
Are you sleeping in the back of the car while it drives itself, or is it still a party trick?
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by earsayapp on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:43PM (#46805069)
It stops working if a little dirt gets on the camera.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by dham on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:26AM (#46809927)
Except it doesn't. Are you basing your comment on experience or Reddit posts?
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by blibble on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:12PM (#46804858)
the remaining 1% when it drives you straight into crash barrier is sort of important
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by gamblor956 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:43PM (#46805080)
I had a former coworker who loved letting the FSD drive him places. He used to love driving people for lunch, ignoring all the crazy red flags like the car's inability to consistently detect other vehicles on the road around it or stay in the (clearly marked) lanes.

Then one day on the way home from work FSD nearly killed him.

He survived, but he will be crippled for life.

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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by dham on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:14PM (#46804870)
I don't need to drink anything. Having two drivers is better than one.

Honestly, I'm done trying to convince FSD deniers. You'll be in an autonomous car full-time in 10 years, no matter what, so who cares?

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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by Gud on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:05AM (#46806021)
We're not really "denying" anything when we are agreeing with reality..
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by dham on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:24AM (#46809901)
You're not agreeing with reality because you haven't used FSD 14. You're making assumptions on headlines and older versions. And honestly, 95% of the time, people are making assumptions about FSD when, in reality, they're thinking about Autopilot.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by Gud on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:18PM (#46820148)
Ah how strange to make assumptions about revision 14, when “full self driving” rev 1-13 sucked and killed people.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by macinjosh on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:48PM (#46805113)
Just ten more years! Take my money!
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by dham on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:25AM (#46809911)
Yea that's right, 10 years for you in your car. Right now, for people who own Teslas.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by macinjosh on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:58PM (#46819688)
Unless it’s icy or rainy or you’re on a dirty road and the cameras can’t see anything. Enjoy getting out to wash your camera lenses off every quarter mile.
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Re:Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up by f30e3dfed1c9 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:41PM (#46817043)
"You'll be in an autonomous car full-time in 10 years, no matter what"

Hmmm... maybe. It's possible that in 10 years I'll still be driving the car I drive today, although not that likely. Pretty sure my next car will be electric. Autonomous I'm not so sure about. We'll see, I guess.

I don't entirely get the appeal of a self-driving car. What am I going to do while the car drives itself? I can't read in a moving vehicle. On a long trip, the most likely thing I would do is fall asleep and that does not seem like a great idea.

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