Elon Musk says that Tesla’s “unsupervised self-driving begins,” however as traditional with the CEO’s statements about self-driving, it’s simply “company puffery.”
Tesla has launched a video showcasing that its autos popping out of Fremont manufacturing facility can now drive themselves to the loading docks for transportation:
I’m not gonna lie. I don’t wish to hate on this as a result of I feel it’s fairly cool. It’s simply not what was promised for years.
Actually, Elon Musk stated that Tesla would do a driverless cross-country drive by the tip of 2018. It by no means occurred. Then he stated that by the tip of yearly since 2020, Tesla would allow unsupervised self-driving in Tesla autos. That additionally by no means occurred.
And now, he retweeted the above video, claiming that “unsupervised self-driving begins.”
The Tesla autos on this video drive 1.2 miles on non-public roads at low speeds across the manufacturing facility. That is nothing greater than what Tesla demonstrated on the non-public roads of the Warner Bros studio with the Robotaxi final yr.
That is clearly not the “starting of unsupervised self-driving” or not less than, not in the way in which that Musk has promised Tesla FSD house owners for years.
Musk’s newest timeline is “unsupervised self-driving in California and Texas round Q2 2025.”
Electrek’s Take
Once more, I feel that is cool. It’s a enjoyable and environment friendly method to transport autos to the loading docks, however that’s about it.
Anybody who has used FSD ought to know that this isn’t extra spectacular than FSD, and FSD remains to be years away from being able to be unsupervised.
I strongly consider that if FSD was developed in a vacuum with out Elon’s feedback and Tesla promoting it as a bundle with future upgrades, folks would have fun FSD has an amazing program. As a substitute, it’s changing into a joke.
You could have Elon claiming that that is the “starting of unsupervised self-driving” and Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s head of FSD, added: “only a matter of time earlier than it’s rolling on public roads.”
Sure, a matter of time. A very long time when you promote this bundle to folks promising it would occur by the tip of the yr.
