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by prmoustache 1595 days ago
You can't ask people to use a driving aid and not end up less focused. With advertising, "infotainment" (which is really disguised entertainment), music, oustide environment and passengers it is already hard for a driver to focus on his driving. You can't expect any human being short of people paid for that to keep hands brushing the wheel and feet ready to slam the brakes.

Having said that I am not sure most people are safer for cyclists and pedestrians. FSD is in such a bad state right now that the tesla is driving in the streets at the speed 80y old people do. What I saw in a video is a car that drive at a similar pace to a cyclist, it is even much slower in the crossing sections.

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And however much Tesla likes to say "Oh, yes, yes, the driver should be paying full attention", everything else they say and do says the opposite. Latest example is the update that rearranged some of the climate control and added/updated some larger hot buttons at the bottom of the screen. Not all functions are available to be pinned at the bottom. You get a limited choice, which includes Netflix.

So to be clear you can have an always available hot button for Netflix, but not for climate control. All Tesla's handwaving is entirely bullshit. "The driver is in the seat for legal purposes only. The car is driving itself."

This is horseshit of the highest order.