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Leonard_of_Qyesterday at 10:04 PM7 repliesview on HN

It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better off removing the 'F' from 'FSD' but that's water under the bridge.

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/05/03/tesla-fsd-10-billion-miles-no...


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Dylan16807today at 5:54 AM

If we judge it as "Self Driving", it does the Driving part pretty well, and is quite bad at the Self part. There exist no roads and no weather conditions where I'm allowed to take my eyes off the road and stop being the safety nanny.

fouctoday at 1:34 AM

I liked this article's definition of Full Self Driving (Level 4 autonomy), it is very clear - when Tesla directly takes on the legal liability for unsupervised driving.

omgwtfbyobbqyesterday at 10:30 PM

The did, kind of. Instead of removing "Full", they added a disclaimer to the end.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70420085/tesla-drops-auto...

simondotauyesterday at 11:22 PM

Full is a relative term. Full compared to what? Compared to a professional rally car driver? Compared to my grandmother? Compared to a properly licensed tourist in a foreign country?

From videos I see on YouTube, I’m struggling to think what is not Full compared to—at a bare minimum—the bottom 10 percent of drivers on the road.

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dylan604yesterday at 10:11 PM

You just said "where it fails" and then state hard to claim it not working. If you call it Full Self Driving and it doesn't fully self drive, then it doesn't work. Not really sure where the confusion is. It's not water under the bridge. It is what it is. They claimed it would be fully self driving and not some lane/speed maintenance that pretty much all car makers can do now. It was straight up explained to drive the car. Any deviation from that means it is not working and people like you willingly accepting what Musk has lied about for years trying to make the rest of us out to be the weird ones for not falling for it. I'm tired of the gaslighting.

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pengaruyesterday at 10:25 PM

even my 95 miata drives itself on a straight flat road...

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bdangubicyesterday at 11:32 PM

if they replaced F with S (Somewhat) all would be swell (hard to make any sales when not lying though…)