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by fuzzfactor 264 days ago
>asking a different question: how good would the FSD system be at completing a coast-to-coast trip?

>They made it about 2.5% of the planned trip on Tesla FSD v13.9 before crashing the vehicle.

This really does need to be considered preliminary data based on only one trial.

And so far that's 2.5% as good as you would need to make it one way, one time.

Or 1.25% as good as you need to make it there & back.

People will just have to wait and see how it goes if they do anything to try and bring the average up.

That's about 100:1 odds against getting there & back.

One time.

Don't think I would want to be the second one to try it.

If somebody does take the risk and makes it without any human assistance though, maybe they (or the car) deserve a ticker-tape parade when they get there like Chas Lindbergh :)

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> This really does need to be considered preliminary data based on only one trial.

Statistically yes, but look at the actual facts of the case.

A large object on the road, not moving, perfect visibility. And the Tesla drives straight into it.

Not hitting static objects in perfect visibility is pretty much baseline requirement #1 of self driving. And Tesla fails to meet even this.

It does look like lower performance than a first-time driving student.

I really couldn't justify 1000:1 with such "sparse" data, but I do get the idea that these are some non-linear probabilities of making it back in one piece.

It seems like it could easily be 1,000,000:1 and the data would look no different at this point.