Soon it will be undeniable that FSD is the most advanced and safest self-driving system on the planet and the haters just need to accept it. It’s a good thing because it’s literally saving human lives.
You might not like Teslas as a vehicle nor the company itself due to the CEO but the fact is that no other manufacturer offers equally capable self-driving system and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. If you’ve not been following this technology closely they just switched from human code to 100% neural nets and the difference between V11 and V12 cannot be overstated. It’s still not perfect and probably never will be but it’s really good and there’s a good chance it’s already safer driver than the average human. This is all done using only cameras. No radar, no LiDAR.
There’s also rumors going around that Ford is about to licence the FSD software in their own vehicles and others are likely to follow so it will not be just Tesla’s that are using it.
I’m one of the first people to shit on Tesla, but hasn’t the company’s philosophy always been that they are a software company that makes cars? I could see it happening.
To add on to the OP, I’d even argue that Tesla may stop making cars entirely and just move on to contracting out tech and software for major automakers. Looking at all the sales headaches the company’s been facing these past few years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them pivot to just operating behind the scenes and let the established players deal with the user distribution side of things.
I have heard that about Google.
I have heard that about Apple.
I have heard that about Mobileye…
In any case, if it shall work, it requires a boss who can think straight and does not try to be the whole carmaker’s boss.