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Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) (fuelarc.com)
submitted 6 months ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A 2025 Tesla Model 3 in Full-Self Driving mode drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media.

I just don't see how this technology could possibly be ready to power an autonomous taxi service by the end of next week.

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[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

self driving is the future, but im glad im not a beta tester.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Self driving via cameras IS NOT THE FUTURE!! Cameras are basically slightly better human eyes and human eyes suck ass.

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

i agree

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're probably right about the future, but like damn, I wish they would slow their roll and use LiDAR

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk decided they absolutely would not use lidar, years ago when lidar was expensive enough that a decision like that made economic sense to at least try making work. Nowadays lidar is a lot cheaper but for whatever reason Musk has drawn a line in the sand and refuses to back down on it.

Unlike many people online these days I don't believe that Musk is some kind of sheer-luck bought-his-way-into-success grifter, he has been genuinely involved in many of the decisions that made his companies grow. But this is one of the downsides of that (Cybertruck is another). He's forced through ideas that turned out to be amazing, but he's also forced through ideas that sucked. He seems to be increasingly having trouble distinguishing them.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Musk has drawn a line in the sand and refuses to back down on it.

From what I heard the upcoming Tesla robotaxi test cars based on model Y are supposed to have LIDAR. But it's ONLY the robotaxi version that has it.

He seems to be increasingly having trouble distinguishing them.

Absolutely, seems to me he has been delusional for years, and it's getting worse.