Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo...
by robrain on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:39PM
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Sold my Model 3 last year, replaced with another EV without self-drive. Given that there was never a genuine "F" in the "FSD", I don't miss it a jot. Things the FSD couldn't do in the six years I owned the car:
1. Turn into my subdivision sensibly. Always missed the filter lane. Signalled at the point of making the extremely late decision to turn. Much angst behind.
2. Ignore the yellow flashing warning lights above highway 99. Always jammed on the brakes. The warning lights were not stops, ever, just "please avoid this bit of road furniture".
3. Obey the speed limit on the same highway. Either set itself to 110kph (I wish) or 40kph seemingly at random and sometimes different speeds for the same sections. For reference, most of the 99 that I use is 90kph, varied down if there's an incident or fog. Repeated notifications to Tesla had no effect. Note this is separate from the +/- margin that you could set; the base limit that it used was incorrect. It could even show me a speed limit sign in the screen, parse the speed correctly (to show the sign traffic) but blithely assure me the limit was 110.
These three things alone were taking the "F" out of the purchased product. I don't miss it, I didn't get good value out of it. Beta or no, it's a fundamentally flawed product which could never be implemented using the hardware in my car. It was the most direct lie Elon told to me personally.
1. Turn into my subdivision sensibly. Always missed the filter lane. Signalled at the point of making the extremely late decision to turn. Much angst behind.
2. Ignore the yellow flashing warning lights above highway 99. Always jammed on the brakes. The warning lights were not stops, ever, just "please avoid this bit of road furniture".
3. Obey the speed limit on the same highway. Either set itself to 110kph (I wish) or 40kph seemingly at random and sometimes different speeds for the same sections. For reference, most of the 99 that I use is 90kph, varied down if there's an incident or fog. Repeated notifications to Tesla had no effect. Note this is separate from the +/- margin that you could set; the base limit that it used was incorrect. It could even show me a speed limit sign in the screen, parse the speed correctly (to show the sign traffic) but blithely assure me the limit was 110.
These three things alone were taking the "F" out of the purchased product. I don't miss it, I didn't get good value out of it. Beta or no, it's a fundamentally flawed product which could never be implemented using the hardware in my car. It was the most direct lie Elon told to me personally.