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LanceJones | 5 months ago

I have friends on the Autopilot team (and a son). Their goal is by end of year. I've been on HN for 15+ years, and seemingly the only downvotes I get are when I post my thoughts and opinions on Tesla.

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tsimionescu|5 months ago

Tesla FSD has been autonomous by the end of the year for 8+ years now. Don't believe people desperate to make Elon's lies seem plausible.

xnx|5 months ago

It would be great if Tesla figured out how to do safe autonomous driving with their very limited sensor suite, but there's a lot of reason to be skeptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

I wouldn't not be surprised if they figure out some very narrow way to have no safety driver in the car (1:1 remote ops?) by the end of the year.

Zigurd|5 months ago

1:1 is going to be ruinously expensive. You need three shifts of remote operators. Even in the Philippines or Vietnam, if you can make the latency work, that's prohibitive.

fastball|5 months ago

How do Elon Musk's predictions relate to Tesla achieving a robotaxi service or not?

Ignore his predictions and just... look at whether or not the Tesla FSD team is making progress.

terabytest|5 months ago

FSD is widely considered to be off its originally-stated goal by at least 5 to 6 years.

super_flanker|5 months ago

> Their goal is by end of year.

It's like what 6-7 years since the goal was "end of the year".

telcodud|5 months ago

Can we expect you to come back on Jan 1, 2026 and provide an update?

HackerThemAll|5 months ago

You're not "posting your opinions on Tesla", you're literally shoveling them into everybody's throats. You'd be "posting your opinions" when it was one, two comments, and not plenty, like under this news. You're a Tesla freak or fanboy, not an objective commenter.

umanwizard|5 months ago

Yeah, I also heard Sky Ferreira’s album is coming out this year.

ImPostingOnHN|5 months ago

I think the downvotes might be due to one or more of the following:

- You're uncritically parroting the notoriously untrustworthy talking points of a notoriously untrustworthy company, and HN posters expect more critical thought in comments.

- You're redirecting to some rumored "goal" rather than a realistic prediction, which was the topic, and HN posters liked the topic.

- HN posters may think that your vested interest in tesla behooves you to think more critically than the average person on matters involving tesla, rather than less, to overcome any implicit bias you might have.

- I have a goal of end-of-month, so that means I'll have it even sooner than tesla, right? This is how many view the claim by tesla, except I, a random person, literally have less of a reputation for dissembling and failure to deliver than tesla does.

Zigurd|5 months ago

> Their goal is by end of year.

Ummm.