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"Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

Another way to say that, is Tesla scammed all of their customers, since you know, everyone saw this coming...

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[โ€“] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The best use cases I can think of for full self-driving are the elderly, the visually impaired, the drunk, the disabled, and the easily distracted.

Eh.. If full self driving got to where it needs to be then it would be safer for everyone if all vehicles were full self driving.

The safest driver is a predictable driver. When vehicles are subject to algorithms and are programmed to obey the laws of the road, and have open constant communication of their intentions with other vehicles, you can't get any more predictable than that.

I say this as someone who drives for a living, too. I don't think it's happening any time soon, but full autonomous would be way safer than people.