Leaves cause major problems for Tesla autopilot

3 months ago (futurezone.at)

FSD will abruptly break at almost every flying leaf that blows on the street in front of the car: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1ouk886/flying_le...

When driving in harsh, raking light, the car perceives shadows of trees and telephone polls as barriers and either brakes hard or, worse, pulls to one side. I was driving a few days ago on a country road under these conditions and the car twice tried to pull me into oncoming traffic. Since Musk's genius decision to do away with radar / lidar, the car has no way of rectifying this problem with its solely visual orientation:https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-will-never-fix-t...

I’ve read some opinions where cameras are actually a good idea, and when we get there it will be awesome. That’s fine, if we get there I agree it will be awesome. But did people not buy the car now on a promise that this would be here now (considering when the promises were made)? At which point does the legal definition of fraud apply?

The free market is an interesting thing. I assume a lot of regulation is not applied as hard because throughout the decision process many are HODLing TSLA. What would happen if Tesla had to refund all these sales and presales?

So we sort of have to just keep giving stern warnings and issuing very selective recalls.