Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. - FuelArc News
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There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes. Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout […]

It’s not hard to find videos of self-driving Teslas wilding in bus lanes. Check the videos out, then consider:

"There was an interesting side-note in Tesla’s last earnings call, where they explained the main challenge of releasing Full-Self Driving (supervised!) in China was a quirk of Chinese roads: the bus-only lanes.

Well, jeez, we have bus-only lanes here in Chicago, too. Like many other American metropolises… including Austin TX, where Tesla plans to rollout unsupervised autonomous vehicles in a matter of weeks…"

It’s one of those regional differences to driving that make a generalizable self-driving platform an exceedingly tough technical nut to crack… unless you’re willing to just plain ignore the local rules.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That guy is lying through his teeth lol.

      1. The crash happened in February, within 2 weeks of him buying the car. He never thought to bring it up with Tesla until just now, apparently. Try and make that make sense.
      2. There’s no proof that he was using FSD, and that this wasn’t driver error. He has posted footage of every camera except for the interior camera which would show if he was driving or not. I wonder why?
      3. He claims that he had a version of FSD that wasn’t released to the public at the time.
      4. Tesla have a program you can download to get all your telemetry data, showing exactly when FSD is enabled and disabled. He never tried to get that.
      5. Again - he never even contacted Tesla to ask them to investigate.
      6. 3 months later he’s posting his story to 10+ reddit subs and tagging Mark Rober and every anti-tesla person on X, and promoting his X account on Reddit.

      He’s fame chasing. He saw an opportunity to turn his user error crash into 15 mins of fame and money.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Did you watch the video? There’s no way that it was just “user error”, nobody randomly swerves into a tree when nothing’s there. Maybe you’re implying it was insurance fraud?

        Tesla gives out beta access to users, so I wouldn’t put too much weight on that claimed version they were using.

        • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          Did you watch the video? There’s no way that it was just “user error”, nobody randomly swerves into a tree when nothing’s there.

          You’re assuming that he was paying attention and driving normally. He could have dozed off and pulled the wheel.

          All I’m asking for is evidence to support his claim other than “trust me bro”.

          Tesla gives out beta access to users, so I wouldn’t put too much weight on that claimed version they were using.

          As others have pointed out, that version wasn’t out to regular people on that day.

          It all points to a guy who crashed his car and has now seen an opportunity months later to get his 15 minutes of fame. Why didn’t he post about this in FEBRUARY WHEN IT HAPPENED? Why did he not reach out to tesla in the last 3 months? It just doesn’t add up. He has provided zero evidence that FSD caused this.

          • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            Where are you getting February from? As far as I know this happened last week. I don’t blame the person not wanting to reveal their face.

            • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
              15·
              1 day ago

              The guy posting it everywhere all over reddit and twitter himself says it happened in February. People on here, including myself, have linked to his posts saying it happened in February.

              He could simply blur his face……

              • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                Well now you’ve made me go read all their Reddit comments. It happened February 27, and they said it took 2 months for their insurance to get processed. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to wait until they’ve got everything sorted out before posting.

                Based on pictures of the dash cam files they posted, I don’t think they have internal video, they would have had to turn it on before hand I think? Tesla mostly talks about sentry mode internal camera, so I don’t actually know if it would record by default.
                But again, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect them to edit a video with face blurring and everything, they don’t owe the Internet anything, and not everyone even knows how.

                I’ll be honest I don’t know for sure they’re being truthful, but I’m certainly a lot less skeptical about than you. I think enough of their story checks out that I’m not going to discount it based on lack of additional info alone. I haven’t seen them contradict themselves anywhere.