Elon demonstrating the new CyberCab

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My bad, I didn't see the end bit.

Surely someone was responsible for security and that no car will drive over someone, but I’m really interested, how much of it was real and how much was remotely controlled.

Depends on what you mean by "real". It was "real" as in "not remotely controlled", I'm almost 100% certain of that. But it was driving in a small, private closed area that was pre-scanned and prepared specifically for this presentation - not sure how "real" that is for you.

By “Real” I mean: was it on the level of Model 3 driving on itself, or was it (as you wrote), pre-scanned and prepared closed area “real”.

It was held on a movie set for a reason.

Insurance companies are have dropped the Cyber Truck because it's a massive liability. What company is going to insure a car where the driver has no control of the vehicle? Owning this car is asking for someone to file a massive lawsuit against you.

Have you been in a Tesla? FSD could easily drive that route with no control. The reason it was on a studio lot is probably because the cars themselves look like very early mockups without validated bodies or chassis. They couldn’t close an entire city block or whatever to do it.

/r/unexpected

They haven't. Do you have a source for that other than the Reddit thread floating around the other day?

It was real. They chose the lot because it's technically private property so they're allows to use driverless cars there easily. It was controlled in that there are obviously people keeping the guests in the right areas so they wouldn't get in the way But my Model Y would absolutely do these drives just fine today, unaided. No question

> FSD could easily drive that route with no control. No it couldn't, FSD doesn't work without driver supervision. We can "woulda coulda shoulda" this all night long, but at this point in time I'm not gonna pretend that Tesla cars can fully self-drive, when until this point in time even Tesla themselves didn't trust FSD enough to actually start applying for self-driving permits.

I’ve driven 60miles door to door with no intervention. But sure, no way it could drive slowly around a curated route without remote control. Impossible.

Either you edited your post or I replied to the wrong person. You said it wasn’t remotely controlled, which was my point as well. Sorry.

That's the point of this event, they're announcing their intent to start using FSD in limited areas with self-driving permits... Showing off a car without steering wheel is proof of that. But I think the event was pretty premature if that intent is manifesting months or a year later. Meanwhile I'll continue to have my car drive me around every day with basically no input on my part.

> Insurance companies are have dropped the Cyber Truck because it's a massive liability. Wrong, it was just Geico, and they only  dropped a single Cybertruck policy because the owner had the wrong type of insurance for their use.

It was prepped but why wouldn't it be at least as capable as the Model 3 currently is?

FSD works just fine without supervision. Tesla just requires it.

Please stop being misinformed.

>private closed area that was pre-scanned and prepared specifically for this presentation - not sure how "real" that is for you. Well given that they can just put the same software on it as model 3, i would be willing to bet a lot that it was using the same FSD, might be a fork of it, made spesifically for cap mode. but i'd still assume this thing could easily drive you around the city with few issues. tho there might be some issues if you take 10 rides thought the city, just going of the current available fsd

I mean, you're aware that all Tesla vehicles bought in the past 8 or so years could easily do that drive? Literally just place a point on the map and it would go there.

lol this was funny.

I think it was basically both — basically the same FSD as the 3 & Y, but a special build that includes a lot of extra training footage for that specific area. To some extent, it probably *had* to use the specialized training, because the Cab has different dimensions and exact camera positions (e.g. how many cm from the ground is each camera, etc.), so the model has to be trained up with Cab footage to work reliably at all. Same reason it’s taking a while for FSD to come out on Cybertruck.

Also it wouldn’t be legal to have cars without manual controls driving on public roads.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and was happy I waited until the end.

You haven’t been to San Francisco lately huh?

They had y and 3 driving around too.

Insurance will love autonomous cars. Owners will still be legally required to have insurance and have to pay a premium on the 0.0001% that a self driving car will wreck itself. At some point it will be free money for insurance companies.

Ever heard of Elon Mode for FSD? https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767041/tesla-hacker-elon-mode-hands-free-full-self-driving-autopilot

Bingo. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767041/tesla-hacker-elon-mode-hands-free-full-self-driving-autopilot

Yeah this was a drive on clean, marked streets that they would have made sure were in their maps, and they had no traffic anywhere near it.  I don't have much faith in FSD but this is obviously within its capabilities. Not sure how well it'll deal with the explosions but I'm not sure what to do about that myself.

Waymo has cars with nobody in the drivers seat driving on public roads every day and every night.

True dat. Of course that required special permission— and showing that the cars can be safe in public driverless. Tesla’s FSD is not there yet. Also just easier to have an agreement with a single private entity. And of course you want boundaries set up so only your invitees are participating.

And boom goes the dynamite

Did he leave after getting in the car, without talking to any of the fans?

Ghey

dang this feels like it was posted forever ago