Soon it will be undeniable that FSD is the most advanced and safest self-driving system on the planet and the haters just need to accept it. It’s a good thing because it’s literally saving human lives.
You might not like Teslas as a vehicle nor the company itself due to the CEO but the fact is that no other manufacturer offers equally capable self-driving system and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. If you’ve not been following this technology closely they just switched from human code to 100% neural nets and the difference between V11 and V12 cannot be overstated. It’s still not perfect and probably never will be but it’s really good and there’s a good chance it’s already safer driver than the average human. This is all done using only cameras. No radar, no LiDAR.
There’s also rumors going around that Ford is about to licence the FSD software in their own vehicles and others are likely to follow so it will not be just Tesla’s that are using it.
Mercedes Benz. They currently have the only system that allows you to do something else while your car drives.
To be fair, there are limitations on that, but still it is quite an achievement.
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That’s debateable. The system Mercedes uses is extremely limited. It only works in certain cities during a certain time of the day on certain roads that are below certain speed limit. FSD works anywhere in the US even on roads that have not been mapped.
You are still missing the main difference.
Tesla does never allow you to take your hands off the wheel. Not even for a minute.
Tesla does never allow you to take your attention away from the road ahead. Not even for a minute.
Mercedes allows all that, for serious, until the system alerts you, and it alerts you in time, before it disengages.