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Originally Posted by Cliff Fr
Do you use it while going 75 mph on a busy interstate highway?
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I don’t own a Tesla and have been in a Tesla several times for shorter trips until this month. Three weeks ago, I rode with my friend in his Tesla for a 800 mile trip in one day. Much of the trip was on interstate highways at 70 mph+. He mostly used FSD (full self driving). I was never in the driver’s seat.
With that experience, I now believe driving this way on a longer trip on the highways is safer than with a traditional human driver. From experience, I know that human drivers in ordinary cars on long trips sometimes get sleepy, distracted from the road, and so on. The FSD technology makes those things almost irrelevant. On that trip I observed the technology using turn signals, changing lanes when cars and semi trucks around were going 70 mph+, braking when needed including when other vehicles changed lanes suddenly. At first on that trip, I was somewhat nervous at higher speeds because of doubting the technology’s safety. Then I got more confidence in the technology as I observed what it actually did.
I now believe using FSD on longer trips at highways speeds is safer than the average driver on the highways.
By the way, the current FSD technology in the ordinary Teslas you see on the road now is called Supervised FSD, meaning the car’s interior cameras are watching the eyes/head and hands of the person behind the steering wheel. The car makes a sound when their eyes/head and a hand is not in a position to take over control from FSD within a certain time. If the ‘driver’ does this too often, the car disengages FSD until the car is stopped again. It’s like punishing the driver by disengaging FSD.
OP’s post refers to Tesla’s new technology being rolled out called Unsupervised FSD that does not require a person behind the wheel ready to take over control or even a driver for robotaxies.