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  • That would have been AutoPilot 6 years ago.

    AP back then had radar, but radar cant reliably detect a stationary object at high speeds. Every OEMs traffic aware cruise control had this weakness if its radar based back then. They typically warn you about it before first use, which is part of why you must pay attention.

    Only vision or lidar can address an issue like this, and cars weren’t really shipping with lidar back then.

    Newer Teslas with HW4 and FSD would handle this better. HW3 and FSD might not reliably handle it, but its hard to say.

    Edit: and even today on HW4 car, AP would probably fail here like this story. Its just not meant for this and is very very old at this point.


  • Autopilot isnt FSD Supervised.

    Autopilot just keeps you in lane and distanced from a lead car, mainly meant for highways/ freeways. A combination of auto steer (for lane) and traffic aware cruise control.

    FSD Supervised is meant for anywhere and will take turns, change lanes, stop for lights etc.

    They no longer sell or include AP, and its been renamed to something involving autosteer for existing owners. New purchases can only subscribe to FSD Supervised now.

    They might be one of the only major OEMs that dont include any kind of lane keeping in their cars now, which is pretty much standard now.













  • I got a mini dish for emergencies as I live in an area where natural disasters can occur.

    My plan was to just keep it around just in case in a paused state and on occasional trips, or in case of emergencies id have it.

    Then they stopped letting you pause it and charged $7.50 CAD/m to keep it in standby, but it came with unlimited low speed, but enough to do emails or browse websites. Kinda shitty but okay, having data always working wasnt terrible for the $7.50, and could even toss it in car for road trips where there’s bad internet for music streaming.

    Then a couple weeks ago, they emailed saying its going to $15/m and it would no longer work while in motion.

    Fuck that. I canceled.

    Its definitely to juice the IPO revenue numbers.

    Edit: oh, and the free pausing, to paid standby to the price increase on standby was all in under a year.