[HN Gopher] Watch this Tesla Model 3 go from SF to LA on FSD Bet...
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       Watch this Tesla Model 3 go from SF to LA on FSD Beta with zero
       interventions
        
       Author : CarCooler
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-01-01 16:20 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.teslaoracle.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.teslaoracle.com)
        
       | bastawhiz wrote:
       | Is this very impressive? SF to LA, unless you're traveling on
       | local roads, is essentially all freeway. And pretty much one long
       | road at that. Hop on I-5 or 101 or even the 1 and, in the words
       | of The Simpsons, "sit back and feel your ass grow" for five
       | hours. Self driving folks have been saying that highways driving
       | has always been pretty straightforward for essentially a decade
       | now. Perhaps I'm being cynical, but "completing an extremely
       | well-traveled, uncomplicated route without error" doesn't seem
       | like much of an accomplishment in the year 2021.
        
         | nunez wrote:
         | This is very impressive on city streets. Unassisted highway
         | driving on Teslas has been a thing for a while (it works
         | beautifully)
        
         | beering wrote:
         | Must you be so casually dismissive?
         | 
         | This video is interesting because it covers both dense urban
         | streets and freeways, shows unedited footage including the
         | autopilot debugging view, and is done with someone's personal
         | car (as opposed to a company test car).
        
         | randoramax wrote:
         | These driver assistance is IMO especially useful onn such
         | boring drives. I don't expect this tech to be legally cleared
         | for busy city streets for a long time.
        
           | AtlasBarfed wrote:
           | The #1 use case of self driving for me is long distance
           | automation. It should also be the easiest for freeways.
           | 
           | Besides automating my current long highway drives, it will
           | make the decision for any trip under 300 miles an automatic
           | drive vs fly.
           | 
           | For 400-600 miles, 90% chance of driving if I'm paying or
           | staying longer than a carry-on.
           | 
           | And I cannot wait for self driving ev RVs that will drive
           | placed while I sleep in back, even if I am strapped in. I
           | might sell my house and go full Chris farley
        
       | dreamlayers wrote:
       | What does this actually feel like for a driver?
       | 
       | I imagine that spending hours letting the car drive itself while
       | only making sure the car doesn't do something stupid might be
       | less enjoyable than driving for hours.
        
       | jdlshore wrote:
       | The article title is misleading. There was an intervention in LA
       | to avoid debris on the road ("suddenly revealed" after car moved
       | out of the way) and another case where the car acted incorrectly
       | but the driver chose not to intervene so they could have an
       | intervention-free trip.
       | 
       | (This is according to the article body; I didn't study the
       | video.)
        
         | bluenose69 wrote:
         | Hands are visible on the steering wheel for a fair bit of the
         | first few minutes of the video (which is all I watched).
        
       | daly wrote:
       | PlusAI drove a truck across the country without intervention.
       | 
       | https://plus.ai/Plus-ai-Completes-First-Cross-Country-Commer...
       | 
       | Tesla needs to up its game.
        
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