• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    For the average person to reassume the cognitive load of driving and awareness of what’s around then

    There’s the disconnect.

    You’re starting cold. Like, you just woke up from a nap, to find you’re on the highway and have to take over. Then maybe it takes 20-40 seconds.

    That’s not the case for a Tesla driver. The driver is required (and it’s enforced by attention monitoring) to stay situationally engaged.

    Serious question- have you ever actually USED FSD? In a five minute test drive, or ideally for a long car trip? I believe that you are speaking from a position of ignorance, IE you are speaking factually about something you aren’t familiar with the facts of.

    The VERY FIRST TIME I drove a Tesla, I turned Autopilot (that’s what there was back then) on and off several times in the space of a drive. There was no 40 second anything.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      What I find interesting is this is something that many people can actually validate themselves, but won’t. It’s one thing to talk about global politics and have a position and be undeterred from it with no real way to concretely get an answer on something, or maybe something that’s unobtainable to them, or would cost a lot of money to verify, but there are numerous L2 systems out there today that anyone can go test drive on the highway and find out for themselves, but many won’t even do that.

      The only real excuse would be that you’re too young to test drive a vehicle. Other than that, you should be able to at least have an experienced personal opinion on their usage if you wanted to, like that other person who replied to you and said they didn’t like the older version.