Well, the Tesla fanboys told me to not judge self driving on the v11 software. Yesterday I got v12. The old version was standard code, the new one is AI end to end, or so I’m told.
It drove me three miles just fine yesterday. Felt a lot smoother than v11 for sure. Then tonight, we were in the correct lane, supposed to go straight at an upcoming stoplight. Then it changed into the right lane, which is right turn only at that light. As we approached the light it started to get into the correct lane, but then it decided to get back into the right turn lane. I gave it as long as I could, but we were heading for the curb, and I turned it off.
I know there are edge cases that are hard to solve, but I’m sorry, a right turn only lane that is clearly marked as such is not an edge case by any means. So it’s not getting things right 99.99% of the time, more like 95%. I’m cancelling my subscription.
Too many variables involving irrational behavior, that need to be solved in real time by someone mitigating risk to their livelihood. Machine don’t give a shit.
I have the full self driving. It’s a novelty to show friends. Otherwise, I generally just don’t need it. I recently turned it off (turned back on Enhanced Autopilot). Because when I’m driving on the highway, and I put it on, so I don’t have to pay attention, I just want it to stay in the lane I pick and drive. And for whatever reason, it would frequently try to move me out of my lane, even though we were miles away from the exit.
The programmers should heed to the “one lane to the left per mile remaining until exit” policy, which I made up recently. Yes, there need to be exceptions about merging lanes and some maximum number of lanes to the left, which would be the total number of lanes, obviously. Don’t need any persnickety types noting these. A person can do this math plus exceptions and common sense without the help of the programmer, though.
Yeah, that’s way too conservative for me. I know I can get over all lanes comfortably in 1/4 mile if needed. So any adjusting of lanes over a mile out is overly conservative for my liking.
Eh, it’s my rule of thumb, in a place like SoCal. I’m generally in no hurry, nor do I wish to make others fear any irrational, last-second, 3-lane, lane-changing.
This winds me up. US EV manufacturers are upset that theres less demand than they expected for higher margin, luxury EVs. Meanwhile our democrat government tariffs to death cheap, mainstream EVs. I dont want a mercedes EV, I want a honda civic EV that I can just use for commuting. Really undermines the climate change fight argument.
It will be interesting to see what decision the EU makes on tariffs for Chinese EVs. We should hear more next week as they’ve delayed their decision until after the parliamentary elections this weekend
Yes will be interesting to watch. Also amusing that the EVs are so cheap that Biden wants to increase the tariff from about 25% to 100% bc at 25% its still cheap.
Frankly even in the most case where we think the Chinese gvt is straight subsidizing my car purchase seems fine to me.
Just think of it as them paying to offset all the coal they burn.
It does seem to be a short term reduction in EV adoption, but the question of whether distributed production will enable greater adoption in the long run. From a strategic perspective, do you want to depend on an competitor with a command economy for all your production?
Im more sympathetic with high-tec things like chips. Electric vehicles arent exactly a new technology, Im sure well see Mexico, Brazil, Africa, etc. producing them cheaply as well. We dont need to be manufacturing EVs in the US, Id rather cheap ones.
case where we think the Chinese gvt is straight subsidizing my car purchase seems fine to me.