At the risk of falling into the "just wait for Version X.X" trap, 14.3 does specifically address the merging issue as well as being generally a lot faster to react along with a lot of other enhancements.

X - Formerly Twitter

 

Putting aside all the bs Elon has spouted regarding FSD over the years, I am sure the engineers actually working on the system are doing their best in good faith to improve it and address as many issues as possible. But since there are infinite dynamic real world scenarios, their efforts are futile. Some technologies simply plateau, for instance speech and hand writing recognition, and FSD is pretty much DOA as far as it's claimed purpose goes.

I wonder where does FSD go from here. The whole autonomous driving hype is pretty much dead, and a bunch of companies have dropped their autonomous driving programs. Tesla has the advantage of having a bunch of loyalists willing to pay for FSD, but as they are becoming more of a mainstream brand, how much longer can they sustain investing in this useless tech?

 

A good term for you would be "mom", who most of her life refused to own a car with an automatic transmission (until she could no longer drive a manual) because they wasted gas, made driver's lazy, and will never be as good as a manual, saying all this without ever driving one. Definitely a lot in common with you. Mom

 

members here have engaged with you in good faith, but it’s increasingly obvious that you’re not engaging in the same spirit in return and you clearly haven’t experienced the thing you hold such strong opinions about.

regardless, the position you’re trying to articulate simply isn’t borne out by reality. The reality is that despite being a still nascent technology FSD has already reached a level of maturity so far ahead its competition that you could forgive them for giving up, because Tesla isn’t. And with that said:

- if you believe speech and writing recognition have plateaued you clearly are not following the industry. Not only are both continuing to evolve, the pace of change is accelerating with speech in particular seeing massive investment.

- Unsupervised FSD, from both Tesla and others, is already here. The consumer (supervised) version FSD is effectively a fork of the RoboTaxi code base. RoboTaxi runs on a standard Model Y and doesn’t have any additional inputs.

- Tesla is dominant in the US. You might as well be claiming that the search engine industry is dead because Ask Jeeves is no longer in business and you’re choosing to ignore Google.

- Rumors continue that other manufacturers may well become FSD licensees. This would be the smartest play for pretty much everyone else at this point.

 

I don't just believe it, it's observable. Voice commands in any modern car are just as confused and useless as they were in 2008, iphone 17 dictation returns the same word salad as iphone 7. They don't even begin to address accents and mixed languages.

Lol, this is exact the same koolaid as when Autopilot/FSD were first announced, you're falling for the "fell for it again and again" award.

 

Neither do I. Haha

 

So when I talk about you not engaging in good faith, a significant part of that is the very obvious reality that you have absolutely no idea about any of these things, and you try to move the goalposts when you get found out. A good example of that would be your unqualified and incorrect statement about speech recognition, and then the attempt to limit it to its deployment in cars, Which is still incorrect.

Others can judge which of us has approached this discussion with integrity and is posting from a position of actual knowledge.

 

Moving the goalposts has longtime been a specialty of FSD advocates. My statements are based based on objective, observable reality, meanwhile your approach is so deeply rooted with such Tesla bias, it's hard to have a productive conversation.