A financial analyst who tested Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode on the roads of suburban New York was forced to take control to avoid an accident and had to intervene on other occasions.
A financial analyst who heeded Tesla CEO Elon Musk's suggestion that investors need to experiment with the company's so-called Full Self-Driving feature to understand the company and said that he narrowly avoided a crash while testing the system.
He wrote that FSD required him to be less engaged than he anticipated and that it took the system 20-40 seconds to issue a warning when Stein "turned my head completely away from the road" while his son was monitoring traffic to "alert him to danger." Stein also had to take control from FSD when he was instructed by a police officer using hand gestures to pull over to allow a funeral procession to pass through.
Finally, in a section of our route, the highway was curvy and narrow, and had a solid white line separating lanes, signaling a prohibition against lane changes," he wrote. "Still, the Model Y switched lanes twice under that condition." The vehicle Stein drove was running FSD 12.3.6 in a "demo mode" that's only available to dealers during test drives and not Tesla owners. The 12.3.6 version of FSD was released this spring.
Stein concluded that while FSD was "truly amazing" it also was "not even close to 'solving' autonomy" as Musk has suggested FSD will eventually be able to do. He added that the test drive left him with questions about Tesla's upcoming Robotaxi event.
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