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Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What Tesla is (falsely IMO) advertising as "full self driving" is available in all new Mercedes vehicles as well and works anywhere in the US.

Mercedes is in the news for expanding that functionality to a level where they are willing to take liability if the vehicle causes a crash during this new mode. Tesla does not do that.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    works anywhere in the US

    The system Mercedes is using is extremely limited and hardly compareable to FSD in any way.

    Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    If I understand that person correctly, you are confusing the two systems.

    Mercedes has two systems. One of a driver assist system that does everything the current version of FSD can do. It is unlimited in the same way that Tesla's FSD is unlimited.

    They have an additional system, that you cite, that is Level 3, a true hands-off self-driving system. It is geographically limited.

    So, the question is, does Tesla have any areas where you can legally drive hands free using their software?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That is the new system. Tesla has no equivalent to it. Or to phrase it differently:

    Drivers can not activate teslas’s equivalent technology, no matter what conditions are met, including not in heavy traffic jams, not during the daytime, not on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and not when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can never focus on other activities. The technology does not exist in Tesla vehicles

    If you are talking about automatic lane change, auto park, etc (what tesla calls autopilot or full self driving) these are all features you can find in most if not all high end cars nowadays.

    The new system gets press coverage, because as I understand it, if there is an accident while the system is engaged Mercedes will assume financial and legal responsibility and e.g. cover all expenses that result from said accident. Tesla doesn't do that.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I genuinely have no idea what you're on about. YouTube is full of videos of Teslas driving by themselves in cities, highways, parking lots, construction zones etc. To claim that this is something "most high end cars can do" is a blatant lie. Tesla is the only company in the world that offers a system like that.

    There is nothing Drive Pilot can do that FSD can't but there's a ton of stuff FSD can do and Drive Pilot can't. Yeah the Tesla driver is still ultimately responsible because FSD is level 2 and Drive Pilot is level 3, but it doesn't take a genious to figure out why it's easier for the company to take responsibility for something that is essentially a train rather than something that gives you full freedom to go anywhere.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I would much rather use FSD that is limited to routes and conditions where the developers and testers agree that it's safe.

    Compared to a company that says "everything works", and "those drivers that got killed must have been doing something wrong".

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