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FSDBeta 8.2 - 2021.4.11.1 - 4K Drone View of Unprotected Left Turns with Forward Facing Traffic

Chuck Cook
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YouTube
Cited on HN 9 times, 2021–2022, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used mostly as evidence of FSD Beta's limitations, for example pulling out in front of fast traffic.

Chuck Cook films Tesla FSD Beta 8.2 attempting unprotected left turns across forward-facing traffic, using a drone for a third-person view. Eight tests are shown with the car's on-screen visualizations.

2 citations · 7 critical · Demos · news from the time

9 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@GhostVII Mar 2021 Cites it
on HN thread Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
In the video I actually do see the yellow outline if I really turn up the resolution, it's super faint though, hard to tell if it is there the whole time. Easier to see in [this video] , at 4:00 the cars are all yellow when they shouldn't be.
Visualization showing cars colored yellow at 4:00.
@GhostVII Mar 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
This [0] is much worse than the video in the article, IMO. It repeatedly tries to pull out in front of cars going 45+ miles an hour, in some cases giving the driver very little time to stop it. For level 5 (what Elon keeps claiming they will have very soon), they need to be able to go tens of thousands of miles without a crash-avoiding human intervention, not 10 minutes. [0] [this video]
FSD repeatedly pulls out in front of fast cars.
@mlyle Apr 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Waymo ordered “up to” 82,000 vehicles in 2018. Today, it has “well over 600.”
Watch this entire video: [this video] Tesla would kill you half the time making this unprotected left turn. Waymo can make unprotected left turns and have never killed or injured anyone or even bent metal in this situation. :P It's not a particularly challenging left turn. And the goal is to kill you less than .0001% of the time making left turns. Yes, Waymo tries to avoid them in route planning, but it still takes them if necessary.
Contrasts Tesla's unprotected left turn with Waymo.
@mlyle Apr 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Waymo ordered “up to” 82,000 vehicles in 2018. Today, it has “well over 600.”
It's a win. But-- if it's just driving freeway miles and lanekeeping and doing basic collision avoidance-- there's a lot of cars doing that and Tesla is in first place but not strongly differentiated from GM, etc. Other cars can provide you this "less fatiguing road trip" experience. If you want it to actually drive and be able to remove your attention, well, something like this [this video] makes the present limits rather clear.
Makes limits of Tesla self-driving clear.
@throwaway77112 May 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features
Videos of Tesla fails, mostly from 2021: [1] [link] [2] [this video] [3] [link] [4] [link] [5] [link] Other things: [1] [link] [2] a video which was taken down from youtube [link] [3] [link] [4] [link] . Bonus material: [1] [link] Edit: For saner info regarding self-driving, A.I etc: [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] book to read, suitable even for laypeople >> 'Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell IMO everyone should read that book Edit 2: Children of the Magenta Line [link]
Listed among Tesla fail videos.
@throwaway24006 May 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Camera-Only Autopilot Requires Automatic High Beams Enabled
Copy-pasting a glorious Tesla comment from yesterday: Videos of Tesla fails, mostly from 2021: [1] [link] [2] [this video] [3] [link] [4] [link] [5] [link] Other things: [1] [link] [2] a video which was taken down from youtube [link] [3] [link] [4] [link] . Bonus material: [1] [link] For saner info regarding self-driving, A.I etc: [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] book to read, suitable even for laypeople >> 'Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell Perils of autopilot: Children of the Magenta Line [link]
Listed among Tesla fail videos.
@isx726552 Jan 2022 Pushes back
on HN thread IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
What videos would those be, like this one? [this video] Tesla’s safety claims are wildly overstated, as documented here: [link] In aggregate, Tesla’s FSD is demonstrably not up to the task. “Limited driver assist” is a much more fair assessment of what their software is actually capable of than the “full self driving” branding.
Example of FSD's shortcomings against safety claims.

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