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the interior camera in a Model Y is rear facing. I am pretty sure they had GoPros mounted inside and outside the car for this special occasion that provided the inside view in this case.
Fun fact, just before this stunt tsla has been hiring large teams of tele operators, and we can be certain this car is being supervised, if not driven, by teleoperation, just like the robots, its all smoke and mirrors.
So all we need is ah att outage and the vehicle will stop in its tracks huh?
I wonder if the customer just happens to work for Tesla and is under a NDA that restricts any incriminating details from being communicated.
Delivered right through the wall into the bedroom. Now that’s what I call customer service!
Robotaxis use starlink. They have a antenna/receiver located in a module at the top of the trunk glass. The geofenced area has been cherry picked for its starlink reception and ease of navigation with plenty of pre-planned drop off spots.
Arguably, the current autonomous taxis have shown that it can drive about as well as an inexperienced teenager, or someone new to the local roads. So in the event of an outage I think the vehicle could make it's way to the destination, or more likely pull over until it's back online. My personal hypothesis is that it's mostly staged, with tsla bleeding money paying a horde of teleoperators to give a very convincing show in this small geofenced area, while in the background they are furiously training new and improved ai models. I suppose they are betting on their massive (illegal and polluting) compute to simply bruteforce a solution in the future. And that can work, ai is developing at an ever increasing pace. It should also be noted that in china FSD is actually a liability to use, as they have massive surveillance systems in place that automatically flags and fines traffic offences, even minor ones. Activating FSD there is a great way to rack up fines. BYD has their own self driving software but use radar and lidar, this system called "GODS EYE" can safely navigate the surveillance riddled chinese cities without racking up fines. This system is commercial available right now, free of charge on top BYD models. "Ha ha ha, have you seen their cars? (mockingly)" Elmo, 2011
Did it actually make it there without incident?
Disregarding the technical facets of this, who is responsible here? If this unique and singular delivery, or a autonomous tsla vehicle in general crashes, or hurts someone severely, perhaps even extinguishing them, like a cyclists, who is then responsible? Will anyone be? Will it be settled outside court?
Tesla has faked FSD on video for over half a decade now. Hell, their first few videos were ***admitted to have been faked by former employees who were in on it.*** What makes you think this wasn't a pre-planned, pre-trained route? I think anyone that believes that Tesla just shot a car out of a factory half an hour away to their first customer without any really needs to re-evaluate the company's history.
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The “no human in control at any time” statement doesn’t mean no human was watching. It seems the lack of a disengagement or takeover is being conflated with a perfect system. Although I like FSD, multiple perfect rides don’t give sufficient indication of the system’s overall capability without knowing what happens in the other rides. A single delivery without incident or disengagement doesn’t mean the car is ready to do that at any particular scale. FSD supervised is most likely better than the average human when supervised by an alert driver. If not supervised, the generally available versions are likely worse than almost all human drivers. There is no way my car would drive unassisted 100,000 miles with the current software and have no accidents. On the other hand, you’d expect the vast majority of competent drivers to drive a car for 100k and never have an accident. Impressive tech, but a ways to go.
Very good points. A nitpick; it would be impressive in 2016-2017, but the lack of sensors beyond cameras severely hampers it. And it is not outside the capability of other car manufacturers to deliver a similar or better system, BYD already has self driving in China forthe public, and waymo has rather functional autonomous taxi vehicles. Most manufacturers don't want to deliver a unstable and potentially dangerous system to a specific unregulated area of the world, they want a working system that can pass regulations, be certified and deployed anywhere. Mercedes for example has SAE level 3, and their system is capable of more, but not reliably enough for public use.
These days I tend to dismiss anything elmo says...man has lost all credibility.
We are less than impressed with our 2020 hw3 Model Y’s FSD. Disabling the Lidar was so stupid.
I still want to know how many attempts were made before they got lucky. If they had been confident they would have announce it before not after it happened.
Meanwhile there's 100s of waymo around Austin driving themselves.
You are most likely correct. The customer is most likely related to Tesla. It's funny how as sneaky as elon is, someone always catches him. Haha.
Just in time for the release of the Q2 2025 delivery numbers. I guess this means they'll not be mindblowing
Customer service? #Oh Yeeeeahh!
So true! Didn’t they do a coast to coast FSD video like 5 years ago?
It’s shit. It will never go anywhere. And it is NOT safer than a human (supervised or otherwise) unless you are a really really shit driver. Just stop with this bullshit.
>FSD supervised is most likely better than the average human when supervised by an alert driver. Yeah, a pigeon it's excellent at playing chess when supervised by a human player..
Yeah can it only deliver cars in the daytime, if it’s not raining, and if the customer doesn’t live near any tricky intersections?
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My BMW can do this. It just doesn't because it's not safe or cost efficient.
I thought they were using model Ys for their taxi program
I mean it’s perfectly believable that the car handled a half hour drive on its own, FSD is good enough to do that routinely now. BUT what I find weird is that every new Tesla has to go through a camera calibration protocol before it can use FSD/Autopilot. Mine took a good 25 miles of driving around regular roads before it would let me activate any ADAS features.
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There is bed tea and there is bed car
I thought it was just me. I cannot figure out why I would want my car driving from the factory to my house.
And only if the customer is a tesler employee leas than 30 minutes from the factory. And only with a thoroughly ore planned route. And only when tele operated.
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Agreed - I was commenting on their as-is hardware and seeming strategy.
I expected the cameras to need to calibrate when I picked up my Juniper. FSD worked for me right away without calibration so wondering if they have fixed this in how they prep the cars for delivery? Mine had 1 mile on it when I picked it up
Oh, this was absolutely a pre-mapped and optimized route. That's what they do with the Robotaxi roll out, and we know they found intersections and situations they didn't feel were safe with FSD and excluded them within their geofenced area. Of course they used a similar strategy with this marketing stunt. I'm reasonably certain there was a car following it also, with somebody in the passenger seat with their thumb hovering over a red stop button.
How many people live within 30 mins of the factory? Even if this saves transportation costs, who would want their car to come after having driven itself for 3 days? Who's going to charge it 15 times in that route? Etc, it's a lame attempt at being cool, that's all what's remains of Tesla.
You know it isn't true because Elon said it was.
Police escort needed for each delivery..
The fact this was done without the needed permits says it was fake.
In other news, driver-less Waymo taxi delivers Tesla buyer to Tesla showroom to pick up new car.
„Coast to coast without intervention by the end of 2017“ was the claim. But they never made a video claiming this already happened.
I can’t even fathom ordering groceries, because i want to touch and feel especially fruits. They really think taking delivery of a car should be just like getting your instacart delivered? I definitely want to look at a the car before taking delivery …
Don’t you know that Tesla has these snake like robotic chargers? Oh wait. This was 10 years ago and never made it to market.
Anybody remember when Elon said that his cars would be so cheap you won't trade them in anymore, you'll turn them in for recycling like an old cell phone and just outright buy the latest model. His completely automated alien dreadnought Fremont factory would make cars so fast that you would need a strobe light to see it. Monorail!
Yeah it has to adjust sensors to the person riding in the car as the road doesn't exist when people aren't looking at it, and there are narrow differences between users that must be accounted for. /s
If this really happened, it was most likely following a rout that was scanned and recorded extensively before, with cars securing the route for a smooth ride. Nothing but a marketing stunt.
Who buys this junk?
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