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by vel0city
1899 days ago
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You're adding a ton of words there in your reading that massively changes what they're saying. > All new Tesla cars have the hardware needed in the future for full self-driving in almost all circumstances. The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat. They're not saying it is potentially designed or that they believe it has the capabilities to do the things they say it can do in their second paragraph. No where in their writing are the words "believe" or "probably" or "maybe". It states the cars are designed with all the hardware needed. Not that they might have all the hardware needed, or that Tesla believes it has all the hardware needed, but that these cars physically can do the job today, they just haven't been showing reliability and getting regulatory approval. |
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> The future use of these features without supervision is dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience...
Many people would interpret that as "we are going to ship these features when they are going to be reliable, and we are going to keep on working on them until they are" but it actually means "if we manage to make them reliable, then they'll be usable without supervision, but we might not do so, so you might have to supervise the thing forever."
It has the hardware that is needed for full self driving (but that might require active supervision). It is designed to not require action by the person in the driver's seat (but is supervision really an action?).
People don't talk this way with one another, but that's how corporations talk. Comcast may say "200 megabits* (*where technology allows)" which means that one might get 200 megabits, or one might not and they have enough fine print to make sure that they can get away with it. Some VP might say "we'll never sell your personal information" and then a few years later it turns out that they do sell your personal information, because it's allowed in the fine print, the VP isn't with them anymore, the product has been renamed from Foo to Foo+, and clearly the VP was referring to Foo, not Foo+. Assume positive intent with people; for corporations, assume the shrewdest intent that the legal team will argue for if they were to be in court.
Now back to Tesla, maybe they will ship FSD, with no supervision required, and people will be able to watch Netflix while commuting to work. Maybe they won't. It'd be pretty cool if they did ship it. They have enough wiggle room in the feature description to not have to ship it, that's all.