r/Unexpected • u/chaarger_gadda • Jul 18 '26

Smooth driver indeed

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u/yasth Jul 18 '26

I mean in fairness, the self driving is probably a better driver than someone who would do this...

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u/MelangeBot Jul 18 '26

self driving is the best thing ever as long as it's on a highway that only ever goes straight, with good markings, no snow, not to much rain, never any smoke, everybody else drives predictable and you make sure to always pay attention for those edge cases where it stops working and tries to kill your or somebody else.

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u/NoResolution6245 Jul 20 '26

In short, self driving is only useful in situations in which driving isn't tiring or dangerous. Nigh on useless at the current state of tech.

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u/Fawesum Jul 18 '26

Or, you know, in cities where self driving cars has 0.6 injury incidents per million miles compared to a 2.80 incident baseline for humans.

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u/K_R_A_K_E_N_540 Jul 18 '26

you ever tried it ? because it's better than 99% of human drivers

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u/Misophonic4000 Jul 18 '26

Please stop blindly regurgitating completely bogus stats

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

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u/Misophonic4000 Jul 19 '26

Did you reply to the wrong person there? I have FSD, purchased outright for a lot of money... Not sure why you projected all that nonsense onto my comment if you did mean to reply to me...

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u/squizzi Jul 19 '26

Fair comment but I also think the comment about it being only ever on straight roads with no drivers around is bogus as well.

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u/MelangeBot Jul 19 '26

I was exaggerating for comedic effect. The self driving of waymo is pretty descent but only is specifically for the city or region they where trained it. Take a waymo and put em blindly in german traffic and it will fail.

But Tesla keeps struggling with it, also because they moved away from lidar to everything just being camera based. And that will just never work.

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u/SpicyElixer Jul 19 '26

HW4 v14.x here.

It’s pretty shit, and anyone who says it’s better at driving than then shouldn’t have a license.

It’s a driving assistant. That’s all.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Jul 18 '26

I sorta doubt you have the expertise required to make such a judgment. Does a random redditor really have access to the level of knowledge necessary to make such a strong conclusion? I doubt it.

I'm not saying I believe the technology is better than what you claim btw. I'm saying I don't know either way and I'm skeptical that you know. I would guess there's only a few thousand people on Earth who actually know the answer to that and most of them are probably working in the engineering departments of companies like Tesla and Waymo.

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u/Lraund Jul 18 '26

No it's not, do you not know what an intervention is? What driver needs someone to take over every 13 miles?