SirEDCaLot

Curious when this was? And did it have FSD?

Every time my car gets an update and FSD gets better. Every time I get in my car and hit the FSD button.

Serious question- have you ever driven a Tesla? And if so for how long?

That was a very early version of their system, once that happened they put strong controls in place for the storage of video and it's now very easy to control what if any video and audio the car reports back to Tesla.

As the parent commenter who actually drives the Tesla, this is absolute bullshit. It does not take me any 40 seconds to reestablish control. FSD is not push the button and take a nap. If it was, it might take me 40 seconds to wake up, take a sip of coffee, stretch and yawn, tilt my chair back up, and then look around the car. But that is not the case.

FSD requires driver attention to the road. Even if the computer is driving, I am still paying attention to what is going on and if anything maintaining a higher level of situational awareness because I can spread my attention around the car without having to focus on staying in the lane. If I want to take over I literally just do it, apply any control input and I'm back in control. Turn the wheel, hit the gas, hit the brake, the car responds immediately.

Driving on residential streets I will often go in and out of FSD frequently, the version I have is not as good with complex intersections and knowing when it is our turn for example. So I'll let it drive along and stay in the lane, then when we get to the intersection I'll take over, then when we get to the other side I'll go back on FSD. There is no 40 second delay anywhere.

I would strongly encourage you to go test drive the car. I'm not saying buy one, I'm saying just so that you can understand what exactly the system does and does not do. Don't take that knowledge from what you read online, much of it written by people with an agenda either pro-Tesla or anti-Tesla. Go experience it for yourself and decide for yourself based on first hand knowledge If it's a dangerous piece of shit or a useful tool.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I'm not saying this as an insult, I am simply stating a fact that you are completely and totally mistaken.

I drive a Tesla. I live in Connecticut, speed limits are set very low and are ignored by just about everybody Including police, as long as you're not driving recklessly.

The problem with the latest FSD versions is they take precise speed control out of the driver's hands. In previous versions, you could manually set a maximum speed. Now you cannot, you only pick one of these driving profiles.

So for example if I'm driving on a 55 mph highway, and all the other cars are doing 75 mph, I have to pick the 'Hurry' profile which also hangs out in the left lane and makes a lot of lane changes and faster acceleration/braking. I would much rather drive standard style but with higher speed, but that isn't an option.

Best way to go is a color laser printer. Brother is usually pretty good in that regard. Buy one and it'll be the last printer you need for decades. I have a Canon multifunction color laser, it was like $500 but that was 10 years ago and it's still on the first set of toner. For someone like me who doesn't print much it's the perfect choice because the ink doesn't dry out like inkjet ink.

Second best choice is a continuous ink feed printer. Epson has one called eco tank, but there are others. Basically instead of cartridges, the ink comes in bottles and you pour it into tanks in the side of the printer. Tubes carry the ink from the side tanks to the printhead. Even the official tanks hold a lot more ink than the similarly priced cartridge, and you can get knock off ink much much cheaper. No DRM, no chips, no telemetry, no bullshit. It's still an inkjet printer with all the downsides that carries, but much less printer manufacturer bullshit.

Your sophomoric hostility doesn't actually refute any of my points.

I am guessing you are from the US. Probably have never traveled abroad. Different countries sometimes have different cultures.

If you had money and could afford toilet paper, you wouldn't go down to the public bathroom and empty the stalls to save $2. In other cultures some people would go and steal every roll from every stall, not because they don't have $2, but because they can and it doesn't bother them that people who use the bathroom won't have toilet paper.

Go to a country like Norway or Japan and look at the infrastructure. Things are immaculate because the overall population puts effort into keeping things nice. There is very little litter for example. When it comes to litter, US isn't nearly as good. We have signs on the highway reminding people not to litter. And it's well understood that in most public places if there aren't garbage cans everywhere that litter will be the result, people won't hang on to their garbage to avoid littering. Make it inconvenient not to litter and the trash goes on the ground. Go to New York City and read the paper, every other week there is a fire on the subway tracks caused by garbage people throw off the platform hitting the electric rail and causing sparks.

Point is simple, don't assume that every other country is exactly like the experience you have had in your country.

I can understand that. Doesn't make it okay to steal from the public stall though. That's not stealing from some big faceless business, that's stealing from your fellow human who will then come to the stall and have no toilet paper.

Easy words for somebody who has never experienced a stall without any toilet paper

Maybe. But look at the headline from today or yesterday, Amazon laying off American workers and replacing them with H1B workers....