Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD)

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• Tesla FSDRecommended for smooth, capable driving on complex roads, often with few interventions. Main caveat: it still needs an attentive driver supervising at all times.73recommend
• comma.ai openpilotOpen-source driver assistance that reduces fatigue on long drives and works hands-free on many cars. Common caveat: it does not reliably change lanes on its own.34recommend
• Tesla AutopilotLane keeping and adaptive cruise on highways that many drivers say cuts fatigue and crash risk; critics point to fatal crashes and the need for constant attention.27recommend
• comma.ai comma deviceAdds freeway driver assistance to compatible cars on a low-cost Android-based device; people praise its capability. Common caveat: frequent warning beeps.24recommend
• Comma FourOpen-source driver assistance hardware for dozens of car models, with ready-made harnesses; critics say it stays at lane keeping.12recommend

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1. it's gone from "good at highway driving, not very good at navigating city streets and it might try to kill me" to "nearly perfect at everything"

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short”

2. FSD is unmatched. Auto lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control don't provide the reactivity that FSD does even for straight highway driving.

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share”

3. an incredibly impressive system that is leaps ahead of where it was just six months ago and by far the best available to purchase worldwide

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%”

4. Multiple people I know have bought Teslas because they don't trust themselves or their spouses to drive safely, and want them to use FSD.

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters”

5. Right now they are the only brand where you can buy a car and have it do basically 90% (or sometimes 100%) of your daily driving.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Tesla to pay $243M judgement over Autopilot crash”

6. v12 was certainly better than v11 in all those regards. But there are still issues with the car making dumb lane choices in v12.

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “6B Miles Driven”

7. Recent FSD, generally, does not hang out in the left lane and is very good at recognizing when vehicles approach from the rear.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)”

8. the latest version of FSD I can certainly believe is seven times less likely to get into an accident than the average driver

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “6B Miles Driven”

9. That's good enough for me to subscribe during roadtrips, but Musk and his legion of supporters is overselling capabilities

   Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD”

10. I've also watched hours of footage of Tesla's current FSD on YouTube, and seen it evolve into something quite remarkable.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Tesla's Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor”

11. The fact that you can pay the average price for a car, and get a car that fully drives itself today, is mind boggling.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today”

12. FSD can go from parked in the driveway to parked in a parking spot at your destination without any human intervention.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'”

13. I turn it on by default now when I'm in the car and I can't remember the last time I felt like I needed to takeover.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab”

14. I just completed a trip from Pittsburgh to Louisianna to Florida and back to Pittsburgh without touching the wheel.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Why Self-Driving Cars Still Don't Exist”

15. There are people using it to successfully do long distance drives across the USA right now, without interventions.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “MicroGPT Explained Interactively”

16. If a human operator + FSD is twice safer than human operator alone, then FSD is still a large safety improvement.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Tesla ending Models S and X production”

17. if you're able to afford FSD and you choose not to for politics, you're just making your life worse and less safe

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car”

18. regularly going for hours from parking space to destination parking space without my touching the steering wheel

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025?”

19. I didn't need to intervene once with HW4. I think their biggest hurdle will be more of a legal or insurance one

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share”

20. For Highway/interstate driving, it's pretty flawless now. For city driving, I'm definitely a lot more on guard.

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Car Owners Are Revolting over Tesla's Self-Driving Promises”

21. Whatever they changed in that release feels real. It's not just incremental. It feels like a different system.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%”

22. the car puts the blinker on and then acts super-duper nervous, almost as if it were driving for the first time

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “My Self-Driving Car Crash – The Tesla was driving perfectly–until it wasn't”

23. I can attest that current iteration of FSD is very, very good, and very likely is a safer driver than I am.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Tesla ending Models S and X production”

24. Right now, from what I've been seeing, I think the product is roughly the level the Paint It Black video misrepresented the tech as having already reached in 2016.

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Cursor Is Joining SpaceX”

25. Systems built from cameras that are only nearly as capable as human eyes and software that is only nearly as capable as the human brain will fall short overall.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]”

26. Car took a left turn through an orange filter light, detected oncoming traffic and decided 'nope' to the turn and just ... stopped ... in the oncoming lanes.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD”

27. vehicles using Tesla FSD require human supervision almost everywhere and Tesla is aggressive about getting drivers in autopilot-related crashes to sign NDAs

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

28. It was never advertised as that, and all the subsequent "clarifications" or "scoping" of FSD have been because Tesla has been dragged kicking and screaming

    Criticizes · May 2026 · in “Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him”

29. You were paying first for the hardware and then to conduct training supervision for the AI while taking full responsibility if something goes wrong.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee”

30. His job was to be a credible technical authority on ML backstopping the sales pitch that Full Self-driving could be achieved on Tesla's hardware.

    Criticizes · May 2026 · in “I’ve joined Anthropic”

31. Tesla actually needs millions of miles without critical intervention before they can confidently let these things en masse out on the streets.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “6B Miles Driven”

32. after years of furious development they were still unable to recognize standard "Do Not Enter", "Road Closed", and "One Way" signs in the US

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video”

33. Tesla full self driving was promissed back in 2016 and something tells me it would be a big success if it will be deployed on scale in 2036.

    Criticizes · May 2026 · in “Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels”

34. the obvious falsehoods in the advertising, and the doubling-down on the tech, despite the well-documented weaknesses of the implementation

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics”

35. promising that the car would be able to drive itself from Los Angeles to New York in 2017 and selling people "Full Self Driving Hardware"

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%”

36. Cutting costs by only using cameras and then claiming "well humans can do it so why not us" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]”

37. No one else has the combination for affordability, custom silicon, deep hardware integration, market fit, manufacturing, and vertical integration like Tesla.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Tesla Roadster”

38. I don't like the advertising of FSD, or musk himself, but we without a doubt have cars using significant amounts of AI that work quite well.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Everyone in Seattle hates AI”

39. Or software that is let's say 4x less safe vs avg human but still very capable of doing maneuvering without hitting obvious walls etc ?

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway”

40. Most of those older (pre-2025?) cars will not have their hardware upgraded so they'll still have FSD that drives like an idiot!

    Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics”