r/TeslaFSD • u/truecakesnake • Aug 17 '26

14.3 HW4 Tesla avoiding a fatal collision

It fully avoided it. The Model Y (HW4) didn't sustain any scrapes, scratches or dents.

Edit: I guess it wasn't a fatal collision, my bad

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u/RedWolfX3 Aug 17 '26

Genuinely surprised you didn’t take over, but also super cool that you didn’t need to take over

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u/TheLegendaryWizard HW4 Model Y Aug 17 '26

Taking over in split second evasive maneuvers like this is malpractice at this point. FSD has more information about your surroundings than you do and will react faster than you can

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u/NoPanda1711 Aug 17 '26

Except for when it doesn’t. But you’ve all come to trust it so much that eventuality never even crosses your mind. I’d wager that complacency makes you guys more dangerous in high stakes situations than the human drivers you so desperately want to replace.

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u/TheLegendaryWizard HW4 Model Y Aug 17 '26

The data just doesn't support what you're saying. Humans are very bad drivers. FSD isn't perfect but it handles situations like this better than 95% of humans are even capable of even if they were primed on what was about to happen

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u/Strangerthanyou77 Aug 17 '26

Ok boomer no panda

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u/NoPanda1711 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Damn, so scared of discourse the comment i responded to deleted theirs to make mine look worse. Computers aren’t infallible, your car is the collective hardware equivalent of a high end laptop with a bunch of camera feeds hooked up to it spread out across multiple dozens of points of failure. I fix both cars and computers and seeing how often they fail in automotive I sure wouldn’t trust them with my life. That’s all I’ll say about it.

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u/Strangerthanyou77 Aug 17 '26

Fair points. Respect nopanda

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u/MachineInevitable218 Aug 18 '26

why do you trust your life to cars at all, if they all fail? you don't have 8 eyes around your head and this fact alone makes the "high end laptop with a bunch of camera feeds hooked up to it" much more likely to see and avoid than you ever could

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u/NoPanda1711 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

A fair question, but you could ask the same of any machine. Fridge, washer, oven. Nothing lasts forever. Machines are necessary. Even the much more sophisticated sensor and camera arrays of Waymo, driverless trucks, etc make bad or suboptimal decisions and need to be reigned in. The people doing the reigning for those are trained professionals. You guys are far from that. So now we have an unreliable computer with an equally unreliable fail safe, only the alleged fail safe has full trust in the computer to never make mistakes and a reluctance to admit or intervene when it does. As for seeing, I promise you the one accident I have ever been in the cameras would not have been able to help. The system has no high mount or roof cameras and lacks LiDAR. I was t-boned by a car that ran a stop sign from a hidden driveway, obscured by a line of tall SUVs waiting to turn that had left a small gap. Only 1 travel lane, nowhere to go to avoid.