alt Hacker NewsMy FSD 14.3 car definitely does NOT respect school zones. Maybe I’m weird, but whether or not I have the car in “Hurry” mode, I expect a hard cutoff at speed limit for a school zone of myself or anything acting on my behalf. I could understand the semantics around “Mad Max” not respecting the signage, but still. Bro. Slow down in a school zone.
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A car should not have a “break the law” mode.
If speed limits are impractical they have to be fixed.
Where I live, there are no school zones, but instead playground zones that are in effect from 7:30am to 9:00pm. Now, I might go 60 km/h in a 50 zone depending on the road, but I will always go exactly the limit in playground zones (30 km/h). The fine for speeding in those is so much worse.
I would say the majority do the same, for probably the same reason.
Meanwhile I have a five year old Audi that not just recognizes school zones but can also tell (depending on the alert mechanism) when they're in use - flashing lights on the School Zone sign will cause the yellow "SCHOOL" bar that appears above the speed limit to also flash.
Bro, you are in control. You arw in charge. If you hit a kid and kill it using FSD, you will be held accountable, not Tesla.
Stop using dangerous hw features.
I've found a couple of things
I enabled FSD in a loaner years ago (12.x)
It would not exceed the speed limit. And that did not go well. There are some single-lane roads I drive on that are deserted, but have a few 25/30 zones. People ride your *ss if you go 25 or 30. late at night, that turns into road rage, people want to get home.
I found there was a setting for +<n> over speed limit and I turned it up and things got better. I believe later I was in another loaner and they had added a "go with the flow of traffic" setting (I don't recall the name). That actually went the speed of prevailing traffic and I was more comfortable being driven around.
There are actually lots of studies that show that using "the 85th percentile rule" to set the speed limits gets maximum compliance and much safer roads.
The further you set the speed limit from these speeds, the more speed variance you get and the variance is what causes accidents.
also, there is a psychological component too - I think driving ~5 mph over the speed limit is safer than driving the speed limit or 10 mph over.
people don't like those answers, but they work. Even murderers drive on the right/correct side of the road and drive with the flow of traffic.