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Comment by Sohcahtoa82

16 hours ago

My wife and I took a road trip that included time in SF last year and seeing a Waymo was pretty neat.

To save some money, we stayed in downtown Oakland and took the BART into San Francisco. After getting ice cream at the Ghirardelli Chocolate shop, we were headed to Pier 39. My wife has a bad ankle and can't walk very far before needing a break to sit, and we could have taken another bus, we decided to take a Waymo for the novelty of it. It felt like being in the future.

I own a Tesla and have had trials of FSD, but being in a car that was ACTUALLY autonomous and didn't merely pretend to be was amazing. For that short ride of 7 city blocks, it was like being in a sci-fi film.

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kjkjadksj  16 hours ago

Why does tesla pretend to be autonomous? My friends with tesla fsd use it fully autonomously. It even finds a spot and parks for them.

  • rurp  15 hours ago

    The company selling the car is adamant that none of their cars are fully autonomous in every single legal or regularity context. Any accident caused by the car is 100% the fault of the driver. But the company markets their cars as fully autonomous. That's pretty much the definition of pretending to be autonomous.

  • nutjob2  16 hours ago

    It's a level 2 system, it can't be operated unattended. Your friends are risking thier lives as several people (now dead) have found out.

  • Sohcahtoa82  15 hours ago

    If I can't use the center console to pick a song on Spotify without the car yelling at me to watch the road, it's not autonomous.