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Apr 21, 2024
9:52:02am

Mike Honcho All-American

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Mike Honcho

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Tesla drops the full price of FSD from $12,000 to $8,000.

TheLost Parody account

Apr 21, 9:10am

I wonder how well this would work in someplace like urban Italy

deejo

Apr 21, 9:14am

FSD was trained in places like San Francisco. I've heard they almost do better

BikeGuy

Apr 21, 9:20am

As a Tesla owner, I don’t see the value here. It’s cool but you have to have your hands on the wheel at all times or

BYU-Provo

Apr 21, 9:23am

The point is…

Nakedbootleg

Apr 21, 9:29am

This is frustratingly where the lawyers wrote the rules, and they're contrary to

LeftOfNormal

Apr 21, 9:41am

Safety? It brakes/steers when it sees something you don’t. But I agree overall.

BigGulps

Apr 21, 10:03am

The point is that for a mere $8000 you can become a beta tester for Tesla

Biyamiti

Apr 21, 10:15am

I imagine a future commute with everyone asleep in their cars on I 15

Elrond Hubbard

Apr 21, 9:27am

Certainly hope so. Wake up at the beach. Winning.

Longseason

Apr 21, 9:42am

I’d be first in line for a FSD RV.

Housemartin

Apr 21, 9:58am

This is the biggest (only, actually) "morality" reason I cared about when buying

LeftOfNormal

Apr 21, 9:27am

The increased safety of connected cars and automation

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 9:33am

There are all sorts of new risks though. If a bad actor is able to hack them, an update with a bug in the code, a

Mike Honcho

Apr 21, 9:52am

Yes, see my point about the group of nuns…

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 11:13am

We don’t have the ability to make ANY software 100% secure and probably never will

Mike Honcho

Apr 21, 3:21pm

No we don’t. I never said we did.

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 3:33pm

I don’t think those comparisons hold up very well if you’re talking about a connected mesh of autonomous vehicles as the

Mike Honcho

Apr 22, 6:03am

Yes, industrial iot is further along at automation

NanoFab Coug

Apr 22, 7:35am

If every vehicle on the road was self driving today we would see vehicular death

Adwight

Apr 21, 9:38am

Also time saving would skyrocket. No need for stops. Zipper merge ftw!

Longseason

Apr 21, 9:43am

I've discovered that I'm apparently in the minority. I can't WAIT to give to up

LeftOfNormal

Apr 21, 9:47am

I will be in heaven the day that I can hop in the car for a long road trip,

Corn Pop

Apr 21, 11:03am

To me it feels like an all or nothing deal though. Either all the cars need to

homegrown

Apr 21, 10:18am

Admittedly, that's an easy mindset in which to find oneself in feeling that, but

LeftOfNormal

Apr 21, 10:37am

I think it will be a great thing once they figure it all out. I just want to know their solution for active inclement

CSoul

Apr 21, 10:49am

I think connected cars will be the other innovation

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 11:52am

Very exciting stuff

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 9:29am

Don't think I could ever trust FSD

Cougrrrs Roll

Apr 21, 9:42am

I would probably trust it more than I would a distracted teenager or adult

benny1982

Apr 21, 10:08am

This is more than fair in that we're way off from vehicles manufactured without

LeftOfNormal

Apr 21, 10:15am

At this point I’d never buy something from Tesla at the launch price. This is like the 3rd time they’ve lowered a price

Mike Honcho

Apr 21, 9:50am

Should be free if they really want to advance this thing

Heath Squashwell

Apr 21, 9:57am

I don’t think they need more data

NanoFab Coug

Apr 21, 11:56am

Wait, so for $8,000 they'll convert my 2018 Santa Fe to FSD?

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