Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
from vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 14:15
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vegeta@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 14:16 next collapse

If only they would have given Elmo his 50 billion dollar pay package, they wouldn’t be in this mess…

/s

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 14:42 collapse

But they did…

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social on 29 Aug 14:44 next collapse

Just 50 more bro, I swear, this will fix it!

bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Aug 18:38 collapse

This month Musk got another $29 billion worth of Tesla shares.

Assassassin@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 15:41 next collapse

Is it FSD, or is it the volatile Nazi at the head of the company?

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Aug 15:50 next collapse

Or the lie that it’s full self driving in general.

NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip on 29 Aug 16:23 collapse

Genuinely both, but the latter is the #1 reason. Seriously though, it’s like every Tesla accident I hear about is FSD related. I get that people are dumb (in general), but it’s not entirely their fault when Elon keeps/kept talking about how FSD is really “full” self driving.

Assassassin@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 16:34 next collapse

Anyone who buys the fsd license at this point deserves the disappointment. It’s been “a year or two away” for a decade now. At some point, ignorance isn’t a good excuse. I think that point was before 2020. In 2025, you have to actively avoid or block out the information that musk is a grifting Nazi.

It’s like the people that buy into the idea that ICE is only deporting criminals. You have to either be in deep denial, or a complete idiot.

eronth@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 12:42 collapse

it’s like every Tesla accident I hear about is FSD related.

I mean, that just kinda makes sense. Regular accidents aren’t really newsworthy. Even if they are, it tends not to be worth mentioning what manufacturer the car is.

Paradox@lemdro.id on 29 Aug 16:00 next collapse

I only recently found out that FSD treats you like a poorly behaved toddler, with its stupid strike system. For those who are unaware, if the car doesn’t think you’re holding on to the steering wheel and paying attention to the road, it gives you a strike. Once you have one strike, you can’t use FSD for the duration of that drive. Once you get three strikes, it’s disabled for an indeterminate time period, typically a week, but you can find reports of drivers being locked out for a year or longer. Keep in mind, this is a feature you have to pay extra money for, on a subscription basis

My Subaru doesn’t give a shit if I accidentally let go of the steering wheel on a drive with its its lane keep assist system enabled, it just beeps at me with increasing urgency, while still doing its job

deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 29 Aug 16:06 next collapse

I’m sure it hands out strikes if you’re driving in a straight line for long periods.

More than once I’ve been warned to keep my hands on the wheel because the highway is long and straight.

Imagine paying $50,000 to be bossed around by shitty AI.

Oderus@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 16:31 next collapse

With Supervised FSD, there’s no need to touch the steering wheel. Only with Autosteer Beta do you need to keep a hand on the steering wheel, and that’s free.

It’s also either lifetime or a monthly fee which you can cancel anytime. For my Model S it’s $11K Canadian for lifetime or $100CAD/mo for monthly which means it’d take me over 8 years to break even between the two.

I like Supervised FSD but I wouldn’t pay for lifetime and I only really use it when I’m doing long road trips. It’s awesome for that but I don’t rely on it for daily driving. I do think it drives better than 95% of drivers out there which is impressive.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Aug 17:16 collapse

$100 a month? That’s fucked

Oderus@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 18:00 collapse

Its worth is highly subjective. I used it for 2 months as I had 2 long road trips and it was definitely worth it for me as it makes the long drive so much easier. With FSD, it’s still much cheaper than driving an ICE and there are way more benefits. To each his own though. Not everyone can afford a Model S.

deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 29 Aug 19:18 next collapse

EVs being better than ICE is no defense of Tesla’s bullshit.

snoons@lemmy.ca on 29 Aug 20:22 collapse

Honestly sounds like you have buyers remorse. Most modern cars in tha last 8 years or so come with some level of assisted driving but it’s not really part of the marketing, it’s just expected to be included.

I would also regret buying a new car that locked away built-in technology behind a pay wall.

HK65@sopuli.xyz on 30 Aug 12:15 next collapse

It’s the Brussels effect, it’s been mandatory in the EU for a while now.

I don’t get what FSD adds to the highway experience though, a Kia can drive hundreds of kilometers on a highway with basically no input as well.

snoons@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 14:29 collapse

Yeah, it’s standard and ‘FSD’ us ironically below standard.

Oderus@lemmy.world on 02 Sep 13:22 collapse

I don’t have buyers remorse at all. I love my car. I just find the Supervised Full Self Driving to be expensive for daily use. It’s awesome for road trips so I’ll gladly pay for the months I have road trips planned.

SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today on 30 Aug 10:46 collapse

I own a Tesla with FSD. This is not quite accurate. Tesla uses pressure in the steering wheel and a cabin camera to evaluate driver attentiveness. If you haven’t applied pressure to the wheel in a while, there is a flashing blue warning on the screen. If you still don’t apply pressure to the wheel, it beeps. If you still don’t apply pressure to the wheel after the beep for a few seconds, you get a strike and it locks out for the rest of the drive. Or if you get repeated beeps on the same drive, like seven or eight, it locks out for the rest of the drive and you get a strike.
If you are looking away from the road for more than about 10 seconds, it beeps. Same as above, get seven or eight beeps on one drive and it locks out for the rest of the drive and you get a strike.
I believe it’s currently at five strikes before FSD disables for 2 weeks. If you go for 2 weeks without getting a strike, one is removed.

The nag system is annoying. On the highway, it’s very good, usually better than I am as a human. However even with the nags it is still a huge benefit, and I think it makes me safer because I am more of a supervisor than an operator and I can spend more of my attention looking out in other directions and keeping better situational awareness overall.

brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 14:15 collapse

That’s… Still terrible, you see that, right? Disabling a feature that I’ve paid for for any reason, at all, is unacceptable.

The parenting behavior of big tech companies is insulting.

SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today on 31 Aug 21:19 collapse

In concept, as a partly libertarian, I agree, they should sell the hardware and what I do with it is my business and if I misuse it and get in an accident that is my fault not theirs.

In practice, most people don’t see it that way unfortunately. There’s an awful lot of people who already misuse autopilot, even going back to the early days of autopilot. And every time someone gets in a crash in a Tesla, the question becomes did autopilot kill them and can we blame Tesla for the crash.

Personally I wish more people took the absolute view, namely that it’s supervised autopilot so either the human did something stupid or the computer did something stupid while the human was supposed to be watching it and either way it’s the human’s fault. Unfortunately this is not the world we live in :(

Point being, I would complain more about the parenting behavior of society at large than the parenting behavior of big tech.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de on 29 Aug 16:16 next collapse

It’s been my experience that people are really resistant to handing over control to the computer - not FSD, but simple active cruise control and lane centring.

Personally I like it, because I can offload some cognitive load while still being actively involved in driving; I don’t trust any of the self driving tech to be unsupervised.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 29 Aug 16:51 next collapse

It’s the Nazi shit. Not the product itself. Just like Canada’s grassroots boycott of american goods. It’s the implied invasion 51st state talk, not the tariffs.

fluxion@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 17:54 next collapse

Also lack of trust in a product that requires due diligence, accountability, and transparency to implement properly, something we’ve seen from competitors but with Tesla it’s only Elon’s hand-wavy assurances which tend to be an indicator of what WON’T be delivered rather than what will. So it’s Elon, but not just the fact that he’s a Nazi.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 30 Aug 14:01 collapse

I mean the product itself is also shit.

Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub on 29 Aug 17:52 next collapse

FSD = Fulla Shit Driving

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 19:34 next collapse

I like driving fast cars, I don’t need a shitty computer to try to do it for me.

Also I don’t like giving money to nazis.

GroundedGator@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 22:06 next collapse

Look at the robo taxi situation they have going. The same tech that is stopping people off in the middle of the road is what is being used for FSD.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that the whole thing is a scam and there is some sweat shop full of teenagers remotely driving cars. I feel like the random stops where they shouldn’t stop is exactly how someone who learns how to drive playing GTA would drive.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 30 Aug 13:51 collapse

That would be hilarious.

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus on 30 Aug 03:45 next collapse

hey I bet that would change if they fixed it killing people.

hackitfast@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 04:19 next collapse

Part of what pisses me off is that Tesla doesn’t use LiDAR, it uses cameras. So in sub optional conditions, like the ones where it kills people, LiDAR would resolve those outlier cases.

But he’ll never do that because he likes how his own farts smell.

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 14:30 collapse

They know.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 30 Aug 13:50 collapse

Or killed the right people.

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus on 30 Aug 13:52 collapse

Elon is working on that feature as we speak!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 30 Aug 10:39 next collapse

FSD = Full Self-Driving, saved you a click.

Tattorack@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 12:30 collapse

Damn, I’m disappointed. I was hoping somebody suddenly invented the Frame-Shift Drive over-night.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 12:55 next collapse

Maybe if he didn’t cheap out and used lidar instead of cameras…

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 30 Aug 14:00 next collapse

*Feature that is both late and doesn’t work properly

Turns off consumers. On top of the fascism…

LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 14:54 collapse

Wait, you mean people don’t want to buy a vehicle that throws you into incoming traffic and hits children in the street at full speed?

Or maybe it’s the Nazi that leads it who stole all our public funds for his little electric car and space race things.