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by TheAlchemist 808 days ago
Actually, there are some attempt to measure it.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...

Of course Tesla is not participating - the real numbers would make them look disastrous.

Regarding objective measures for the quality - the famous standards for level 1-5 etc. Objectively speaking, Tesla's system is Level 2. There are other companies at level 3, and some others operating fully autonomous vehicles.

As to why Tesla chooses to base all their claims on purely subjective and highly cherry-picked numbers and videos ? We all know the answer to this question.
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dzhiurgis 808 days ago
> Tesla's system is Level 2

Which I'm happy with. I do 95% of driving on Autopilot already. Add another 4% for FSD that I'm happy to babysit and I'd be very happy.

For some reason people are so caught up on naming choice and what it implies...

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TheAlchemist 808 days ago
There are several reasons - for some it's about security, for other about truth.

I find it fascinating that a guy become the richest person in the world, by convincing 'investors' that a Level 2 system is 'almost ready' for a Robotaxi operation and will make them infinite money. To give him credit, he also did mention that Tesla is worthless if it doesn't solve FSD.

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