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FSD literally yells at you if you look away for more than 2-3 seconds. it's much safer than not


In my very recent test drive, it (a) flashed a message that it couldn’t tell whether I was looking at the road because I was wearing sunglasses and would continue operating anyway and (b) very nearly caused a collision due to an inappropriate maneuver in an intersection.

For an optimal driver-assisted recovery in the latter incident, I needed to have been paying rather close attention to the navigation, the lane lines, and surrounding vehicles, starting before the incident, and I needed to take a rather fast and considered action. It was dicey. But this would have been a complete nonissue if I were _actually driving the car_, because that’s how humans work. The middle ground of not driving but being ready to override instantly is simply not how humans work.


Actual studies have shown autopilot and fsd are at best average on safety. Given it spends an outsized amount of time limited access roads it's actually worse than manual driving for safety.




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