Tesla Full Self Driving Thread
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2...401806265?s=20
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?
Last edited by Och; Apr 17, 2026 at 06:30 PM.
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?
Last edited by AMIRZA786; Apr 17, 2026 at 06:56 PM.
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?
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.
- 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.

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.

Others can judge which of us has approached this discussion with integrity and is posting from a position of actual knowledge.
Others can judge which of us has approached this discussion with integrity and is posting from a position of actual knowledge.
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and 'from what you see'?
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/wa...rucks-program/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_AI
https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...xi-2024-12-10/
https://www.reuters.com/business/ube...on-2020-12-07/
Ignoring Elon's wild claims, here are some of your pearls from 9.5 years ago, how are your predictions going?

Kids born in 2017 are almost 10 years old, still there will be no point for them to get a driver's license in 2033? I'm sure next FSD update coming out in two weeks will fix all the issues.

And just like a decade ago, the transcribed voice mails are still a word salad that takes a human brain that can recognize context and make sense out of the gibberish.

Damn, I really wish I had one of them intelligent robots, last snow storm this February I was shoveling for 14 hours straight.

Yeah, they also vote and post their opinions on the internet, lol. It's hilarious.
Last edited by Och; Apr 18, 2026 at 09:00 AM.
My diagnosis: From the evidence available in this thread, it looks like we could reasonably conclude that you''re a recalcitrant, truculent, luddite stalker with a crippling speech impediment.











