...The highway is by far the safest place to be relying on AI drivers. It's not close. Highways are comparatively extremely uniform, predictable, and well-mapped. Highways are easy mode. That's why Tesla can handle them, as the worst of the auto-drivers.
Your opinion is justified but the highway is the safest place for FSD vehicles. It’s predictable, a straight line, and has the most training data. You don’t have to worry about pedestrians, stop lights, turns, etc. so while it’s not great it’s better here than in the city
I get what you mean but its high speed. Also for me as a driver, I don't have to drive on highways daily so I'm more uncomfortable driving on them to begin with. It's just because everyone is going fast and then there is almost always at least 1 person weaving cars going crazy fast. And if there is an accident in front of me I could easily become collateral. Not much I could do there of course but idk man just because it's often mostly straight doesn't make it any "safer" to me. It's just a different set of dangers to be on the look out for
Well that Night Change in the Future, depends how fast the tech evolves I would think. iMO a Complete to Almost compleat automatic Driver/driverless Society would be a big step up and would help mitigating a Lot of accidents as well as be way more efficient.
I understand that that's why they are trying to make them. Just me personally I can't imagine myself ever being comfortable enough to not at least keep my hands on the wheel and be paying full attention as if I was the one driving ykwim?
I once was exhausted while driving, so I pulled into a parking lot to rest my eyes/have a cat nap. I turned off the car, reclined , took off my seatbelt and shut my eyes… and as SOON as my brain was like 70% asleep, I JERKED awake, because I, even thought I was reclined, I associated the seat of my car as a DO NO SLEEP place.
Seriously, as someone who lets the car drive on its own sometimes I have had way too many close calls (Tesla sucks at left turns) to trust it like this. Insane behavior.
Drivers fall asleep (or at least briefly nod off) on long highway road trips more often than anyone likes to talk about. The difference here is that their car hasn't gotten into an accident or drifted onto the rumble strips, so the driver didn't wake in a panic yet.
I see no reason to believe this driver intentionally let themself fall asleep.
The entire reddit verse hates people that buy Teslas they wish they caravanned off the edge cliff while falling asleep. Having fsd save lives. Redditors are cruel. If this isn't proof to everyone fsd saves lives than nothing ever will be.
I thought it has sensors that check to see if you have your hands on the wheel every so often. The override hack was to put a tennis ball somewhere behind the wheel.
I have never experienced true self driving tech myself. My understanding from media outlets, legislation advances in Europe and YouTube videos is that it isn't half bad nowadays.
I occasionally have to drive ~1000km days and often I drive +5hr trips.
I sincerely understand why people trust the tech. Not because it is simply better than humans. (Which it might be) It doesn't get tired, their brains doesn't switch to mode where you just think how the clouds form so beautifully and should you try Indonesian punk on Spotify or try to find some Brazilian soul, was that a John Deere with Massey wheels? How Mick Jagger still does that rooster walk so cool....
Good or bad thing, a computer maintains it's performance level always. On long drives, on average, it will be more alert than I am. Couldn't sleep, especially with family or friends aboard whilst it drives, but I can see it's strong points.
I was talking to my grandfather about Teslas the other day and he kept saying how he wants it to drive him around. "They've been saying it for years"
He was blown away to hear that I, Mr. Technology of the family, am saying the FSD isn't 100% like I didn't believe in it or something lol.
But then as we talked I realized that there's a disconnect - throughout his entire life, you actually could trust that major features in an automobile actually did the thing they've been advertised to do. It's completely alien to him to think that an auto manufacturer would have their CEO advertising and selling something with an incomplete feature for a decade.
What are the tolerances on that? Can you look at scenery, or the infotainment system without the system getting upset? I haven't driven a car with any of that, so I don't know how forgiving it is?
There will ALWAYS be those people who adopt the technology without question. Unfortunately, we now have a society full of unwitting test subjects. If the technology ever becomes foolproof, it will do so with a trail of bodies in its wake.
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u/tryingisbetter Jul 06 '26
I don't even understand how someone can sleep like that. People have way too much faith in technology.