I wonder if a state court judge could mandate its use as unsafe?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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the cybertruck is sharp enough to cut a deer in half, surely a biker is just as vulnerable.
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This is another reason I’ll never drive a motorcycle. Fuck that shit.
As someone who likes the open sky feeling, this is why I drive a convertible instead.
For what it's worth, it really isn't clear if this is FSD or AP based on the constant mention of self driving even when it's older collisions when it would definitely been AP, and is even listed as AP if you click on the links to the crash.
So these may all be AP, or one or two might be FSD, it's unclear.
Every Tesla has AP as well, so the likelihood of that being the case is higher.
In this case, does it matter? Both are supposed to follow a vehicle at a safe distance
I’d be more interested in how it changes over time, as new software is pushed. While it’s important that know it had problems judging distance to a motorcycle, it’s more important to know whether it still does
In this case, does it matter? Both are supposed to follow a vehicle at a safe distance
I think it does matter, while both are supposed to follow at safe distances, the FSD stack is doing it in a completely different way. They haven't really been making any major updates to AP for many years now, all focus has been on FSD. I think the only real changes it's had for quite awhile have been around making sure people are paying attention better.
AP is looking at the world frame by frame, each individual camera on it's own, while FSD is taking the input of all cameras, turning into 3d vector space, and then driving based off that. Doing that on city streets and highways is only a pretty recent development. Updates for doing it this way on highway and streets only went out to all cars with FSD in the past few months. For a long time it was on city streets only.
I’d be more interested in how it changes over time, as new software is pushed.
I think that's why it's important to make a real distinction between AP and FSD today (and specifically which FSD versions)
They're wholly different systems, one that gets older every day, and one that keeps getting better every few months. Making an article like this that groups them together over the span of years muddies the water on what / if any progress has been made.
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That's not good though, right? "We have the technology to save lives, it works on all of our cars, and we have the ability to push it to every car in the fleet. But these people haven't paid extra for it, so..."
Well, only 1 or 2 of those were in a time frame where I'd consider FSD superior to AP, it's a more recent development where that's likely the case.
But to your point, at some point I expect Tesla to use the FSD software for AP for the exact reasons you mentioned. My guess is they'd just do something like disable making left/right turns , so you wouldn't be able to use it outside of straight stretches like AP today.
Makes sense, statistically smaller sample to be trained on, relatively easy fix, just retrain with more motorcycles in the data.
Remember, you have the right to self-defence, against both rogue robots and rogue humans.
How you plan to self defend against a vehicle?
Propane cylinder. Mutually assured destruction.
Noice.
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