Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train.
Nighttime dashcam footage from earlier this month in Ohio captured the harrowing scene: Doty’s Tesla rapidly approaching a train with no apparent deceleration. He insisted his Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it barreled towards the train crossing without slowing down.
Regardless of the naming, because everyone gets so stuck on fucking names and seems to ignore everything else because that makes for a quick comment with a ton of votes and feel good bullshit.
It is sold as a work in progress piece of software that is constantly being updated and still needs to be supervised. It has a ton of warnings about it’s capabilities, and lack thereof when activating it. There is no question when actually setting up FSD in the vehicle that it is something still in testing and not to be treated as a full replacement for paying attention. It constantly watches you and will warn you if you aren’t paying active attention for too long. If you ignore those warnings enough it will deactivate itself, forcing you to drive, and with enough deactivation will remove the capability entirely.
Image of the activation screen.
Image of the free trial page for those that have not purchased it, thereby avoiding notes on the standard sales pages
They’ve even updated the setting in the vehicle to be more specific, showing it as “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)”…
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-2CB60804-9CEA-4F4B-8B04-09B991368DC5.html
All of these reported situations are from people actively ignoring numerous safety and attention warnings, yet no one seems to ever put any blame on the driver in comments or articles. It’s always about blaming everything on Tesla when they’re actively telling every driver that it needs to be supervised because it will make mistakes.
You’re right that it’s just a name, which means it’s within Tesla’s power to not call it “full self driving”. Like maybe keep the word “full” for when it’s better than “full self driving brackets not really”.
The reason it’s called that is so when you’re buying the car, you can read “full self driving”, the salesman can call it “full self driving”, and then you can get excited and think you’re getting full self driving and pay stupid amounts of money for an iPhone on wheels.
It’s also so Musk can get up on stage and lie for years about how you’ll be able to go coast to coast while you sleep by the end of the year or whatever it is. Having a bunch of warnings in the software setup is not enough for someone gargling Musk’s jizz to cough it up and see it for the bullshit that it is.
You can give us all this extra info but you can’t change the core reality that the name is a lie.
Who exactly are you describing here? Like someone who’s been living under a rock for the past 5+ years and thinks cars just drive themselves now, but who also has $50k-$100k to drop on a car and also doesn’t do any research beforehand? I think you’re blowing this way out of proportion.
All these systems are flawed to some extent as nobody has cracked the code to L5 automation. There is some danger to it but there are many dangers to driving and this eliminates some of them. People have died in Teslas but many more have died in every other production vehicle that has ever existed. If this guy did the samr thing in a Toyota Camry, do you think we’d even be talking about it right now? These systems can only get better with a lot of real-world usage.
I totally get where the other person is coming from. These arguments are so tired and meaningless at this point. If you want Musk to go away, then stop bringing him up at every turn because it just makes people sound like bizzaro-world Musk fans as they hate the guy but can’t stop talking about him and following his every move. Some of us want to discuss and debate the actual technology and Musk had nothing to do with developing it.
Musk was involved in marketing and lying about it, though, and his extremely prolific public image is what gave it so much credibility. He’s lost a lot of that credibility now though, largely because people have spent a lot of time criticizing him. If you want him to disappear from the public eye that’s great, so do I, but he’s one of the most powerful men in the world, so that’s not going to happen.
Well why are you lending him further credibility by continuing to make him prolific? You’re just feeding into his goal of garnering more attention at every turn. Media outlets will continue to focus on all his insane ramblings because people like you are guaranteed to click on it.
especially if you remove LIDAR.
The systems with LIDAR aren’t L5 either. It’s impossible to claim what is and isn’t needed when nobody has actually come up with a solution.
Never said they were, but LIDAR is a big improvement over “cameras and AI”. Most other manufactures use it, Tesla stopped using it because of cost sav… because their AI kicks ass and if eyes are enough for humans they’re enough for their cars too.
Hell any system where lives are involved should be triple-redundancy.
So tired of the same arguments. They don’t mean anything in the real world. Complain all you want about what the shit is called, it makes no real world difference.
Legally, the driver is responsible for the fucking vehicle and these articles and comments like yours just give the impression you think they shouldn’t be responsible because of what it’s called. You’re giving shitty drivers a pass because they’re actively being stupid and you don’t like what Tesla names the software. That is the stupidest take in the world.
Go ahead in a court of law and claim you are not responsible for an accident that happens while FSD is activated and let’s see whether the name matters for your liability.
I notice you danced around the question of whether it was a lie to focus on bullshit legal stuff, which isn’t the arbiter of truth and reality. As I once heard a judge say, “You don’t come here for justice, you come here for a judgment.”
Anyway since you think it matters, the lawsuit you’re talking about is happening and a judge has ruled that the case has merit to continue: https://www.reuters.com/legal/tesla-must-face-vehicle-owners-lawsuit-over-self-driving-claims-2024-05-15/
Merit to continue just means it’s not clearly a bullshit lawsuit that should be thrown out to avoid wasting court time. Your linked lawsuit also is not about whether someone is legally responsible for a vehicle driving itself, it is again about the marketing.
I don’t give a shit whether their marketing is a lie. Marketing is not the issue at hand, as much as you all want it to be for whatever reason instead of actually blaming the shitty drivers. It has no bearing on whether someone is responsible for the vehicle they are in the driver seat of hitting something or someone.
Why do you not want to put any blame on these drivers? Drivers that ignore the warning when they turned on the function in the first place and that warns them every time they turn it on to still pay attention. Why are you so insistent that the blame should be on Tesla because of what they call it?
Makes me start to think you’re that type of driver and trying to justify your belief that you shouldn’t be responsible for the actions of a 2 ton murder machine traveling at high speed that you are in control of.
I mean clearly. “Full self-driving” is marketing, and it is a lie. That’s the point being made here. You don’t have to care about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a lie.
I’m not not blaming the drivers. They were foolish enough to buy a Tesla and trust it with their lives for a start. But I am also blaming the marketing. Two things can be true.
You do know that marketing is, by its very definition, in practice all lies, right?
Wanna rent a VPN with military-grade encryption?
So you admit that this is in fact a lie?
“Hey, every psychopathic corporate entity that functionally runs our society lies to us all the time,” is not a great sales pitch for why this psychopathic corporation should get a pass for its specific lies.
This is the depth capitalism apologists will stoop to with absolutely no self awareness.
I don’t have to admit to anything because a) i’m not on trial, b) don’t work or care for Tesla and c) don’t give a rat’s ass about your opinion on me :)
Marketing is and always has been mostly lies or half-truths. Yes, legislation has mitigated that to some extent but marketing is still marketing. You’d have to be cognitively impaired to take all that advertising to the letter (come to think of it, maybe that’s why coffee in some countries comes with a warning saying it’s hot… or microwave instructions must specify they’re not suitable for pets).
You’d be kinda excused for believing in all the hype when AI/Tesla were just hitting the scene but nowadays? Get a grip.
Bitch all you want about how Tesla misleads or mismarkets their products (they do, anyone with two brain cells knows that) but if you’s gonna use that as an excuse to trust a car to drive 100% independently and flawlessly because they said so… it’s totally on you. Or your corpse.
The second sentence is a fallacy.
And it does matter that the company is calling it full self driving while it doesn’t fully self drive. That it would have that capability is something Musk has promised for many years. It’s also a reason that Tesla stock is worth so much.
That’s would be a very specific case. Tesla has been reminded multiple times that they need to take into account how people use their vehicles. The company is also under investigation for possible fraud because they are selling something that doesn’t do what people would respect it to do.
You’re focusing on one thing, but there’s multiple ways that the company could be liable. There’s been multiple articles explaining that the company is either under investigation or that the company has been warned to change things or else.
Well put. It’s a funny thing, words have meaning and if you advertise your products with those words, some portion of the population (gasp!) might believe you!
How does it not fully self drive? What’s your definition of full self driving then?
Mercedes Drive Pilot is Level 3 and even it will prompt you to take over when necessary, does it not fully self drive then either? What about Waymo/Cruze? They have remote operators controlling the vehicles when they get stuck. Not fully self driving either? Is the standard that it needs to be absolutely flawless and never fail or what is it?
Uh. They mean everything in the real world? You get sued for false advertising and fraud. Fox News got sued heavily for knowingly lying about voting machines. There’s a reason that companies have PR departments. Words matter a lot in the real world.
Are the drivers stupid? Sure. They believed the FSD claim after all. But that doesn’t mean Tesla is off the hook. Deceiving stupid people is still deceit.
Hey everyone, Elon’s come to lemmy!
Well said and thanks for posting the examples. It’s something that bothers me about any social media kind of site. Especially here on Lemmy. Nobody gives a damn about the incredible amount of negligence the drivers must have. It immediately becomes an anti Elon circlejerk every time.
It’s similar with news articles, which this post doesn’t even link to, most of the articles name drop Tesla or Elon just because otherwise it’s not a story. “Somebody hit a car / person / train because they weren’t paying attention to the road” isn’t story worthy. But as soon as doubt can be cast on an Elon company, it become a must post thing. I can’t stand Musks antics either, but he gets too much free rent in peoples mind. It’s wild
/rant
At the same time, there’s too many people who say that Full Self Driving obviously doesn’t mean that the vehicle still fully drive itself. Though for unknown reasons it is totally fine to keep using the name Full Self Driving.
And that is between Tesla and the NTSB to sort even though I agree. The car itself doesn’t mince words describing it to you, and at the time you’re driving it, the required supervision is unambiguous.
If it were called “Tesla Drive” or something else, everyone would still be here taking a shit on it nonetheless.
It’s called Full Self Driving (Supervised) nowdays. They changed the name.
The vehicle is capable of driving you to the grocery store on the other side of the city and back, sometimes with zero interventions from the driver. If that’s not Full Self Driving then I don’t know what is.
It’s like how they changed the cybertruck windows to Unbreakable Glass (Fragile).
I can’t find any source for that claim
That’s Full Self Driving (Sometimes).
Then what is full self driving to you? How good does the system need to be to qualify?
Even this “article” is about nothing happening. The driver was paying attention and took over when the vehicle was about to do something it should. Just as they should.
Also, even if FSD was 10x safer than a human driver and we replaced every single car on the roads with Teslas there would still be 8 people dying every single day in the US alone. Linking articles about these accidents does not prove it being unsafe. It only feeds the confirmation bias of the person posting it and the people upvoting it. People want it to be unsafe so that they can shit on Elon. The standards they apply to Tesla are ridiculous compared to that of other companies. The extremely limited Mercedes Drive Pilot is praised as revolutionary tech while FSD already checks most boxes for Level 4 self-driving.