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"While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software is ready for the EV maker's competing robotaxi service.

Just this week, a Tesla driver plowed through a deer without even a hint of slowing down with the $8,000 add-on feature turned on, and another smashed into someone else's car when its owner employed its Summon feature."....

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 72 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Just so no one mistakes the above as hyperbolic, musk actually said this during an engineering meeting. His engineers kept telling him why Tesla needed the extra sensors, and he replied "people just have eyes and they can drive."

Anytime someone tries to play him off an engineer or anything but a lucky gambler and flim flam man, just remember the above.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and he replied "people just have eyes and they can drive."

People also have a brain. Most of them even use it when driving.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don't really understand what they see.