For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Does your car still have sonar and whatnot, or does it only use optical sensors? I think I remember there like being a switch to not using sonar anymore a while back and I got the impression that was a big detriment to Tesla’s self driving ability

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      2 days ago

      Tesla actually removed software use of the lidars on the cars that had them, to “unify the stack”. So, the Tesla Model 3 2020 I had became worse as they “upgraded” the software stack.

      Now driving a VW ID.7. It’s “autopilot” (travel assist) is far superior to Tesla’s autopilot. However, it does not have or pretend to have FSD.

      Tesla’s FSD is impressive for what it can do. I would however be extremely wary to use it because it tries to do more than it should - being unable to handle edge cases.

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      2 days ago

      ultrasonic sensors were never used outside of auto parking anyways

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          1 day ago

          no idea, but they have such a low range they aren’t very useful for self-driving which relies more on understanding your surroundings and planning a route.