[PlanckMeasure80]

Have you ever driven one? I got to drive one for a few days.

It handled heavy rain. It knew where the lines were even though I couldn’t even see them myself. It does really well even when there are no lines.

It does turns and exits. It slows down automatically for curves. It even swerved out of the way when someone was merging into me. It was fine with drivers going faster and slower than myself.

Frankly, I have no idea what you’re talking about, especially regarding a clear day and straight lines.

It drove better than me. In my use case, the 2021 Model 3 is already practically self-driving. I legitimately felt less safe while manual operating the vehicle.

[Gordonjcp]

I have, yes. It was a pretty scary experience, to be honest. It doesn't anticipate other drivers' actions, it just reacts - so it was always getting into dangerous situations like having to swerve out of the way of people merging into lanes. It worked okay in the dark, but not dark and rain, and not really in the rain particularly, which makes it not very useful on the West Coast of Scotland. It only works on motorways and dual carriageways, which, again, make it not very useful.

It doesn't work on single-lane roads so I wasn't able to find out if it can see deer, sheep, cows, or other animals. It probably can.

It's like being driven by a drunk teenager, because it doesn't anticipate, reacts late, and cannot cope with developing situations.

I don't really see the point in them. Why would you want a self-driving car anyway?

[panick21_]

Wait, in Scotland?

That means you don't actually have the FSD Beta.

That's a totally different software stack.

[Gordonjcp]

Right, but I can't see it being any better than autopilot.

It still doesn't answer the question "why would I want that?", either.

[panick21_]

> I can't see

You can't be serious with that argument.

[slaw]

If it drives better than you, why don’t you take back seat?

[sidibe]

"for legal reasons". After all that is the only reason there is a driver according to tesla.com/autopilot. And that's 5 years old, so surely we should feel comfortable in the back seat by now besides the law

[jackvalentine]

> It handled heavy rain. It knew where the lines were even though I couldn’t even see them myself. It does really well even when there are no lines.

It knew, or it guessed and presented it as it knew in the same way humans guess where the lines are and keep driving when they’re not visible?