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Yeah, it's a big no-no to rub a lens without blowing off the debris first. The most common thing is sand and that will scratch even glass, much less plastic. For camera lenses, people typically use a rocket blower to blow off all debris first before cleaning with lens solution and a lens cloth.

If you do this often, it'll likely become second nature, just that it's annoying.

Note for L4, the car doesn't have to handle inclement weather at all. Most of the issues currently with V12 seems unrelated to perception if you go to the threads, it's stuff like setting the appropriate speed for the road, getting into the correct lane at the correct time for the route...

Considering the windshield seems to be the most damaged and likely where the glass bits is coming in, and rear window is broken, I doubt that small glass part in the center matters. The windshield and rear window is going to need to be glass unless you make one of those cars that have no rear...

Any of you looked at Thanksgiving and other holiday traffic here? I know Tesla have had issues with that in the past, which is why they "overbuilt" some sites for example in the SF to LA route.

Yeah, even for the previous versions, the biggest problems haven't been perception, it has been the planning.

To clarify, I mean I either don't see them or they don't turn into driveways. The trailers I have seen, the people just park outside next to the sidewalk as the neighborhood I have seen them has plenty of free parking. I'm just pointing out that the overall instance of trailers at all may be...

Well, I've never seen it before. I don't think anecdotes can determine edge cases or not. For example if someone has a neighbor in their neighborhood that has a trailer that is being used regularly, they will see it many times. But someone living in a neighborhood without may never see one. I...

Yep, exactly like I said, it's basically just playing catch-up with AMAP which have long had this functionality for navigation purposes (also useful for NOA).

Other brands in China have long had this. FSD Beta Videos (and questions for FSD Beta drivers) Basically it's the same as regular nav maps except it is 3D so it represents overpasses and such much better. I'm not sure however I would classify it as an "HD" map however (like the super detailed...

For L3 you need to be ready to take over within several seconds. So no way the driver can take a nap. Doesn't matter what you personally claim you can do, it's based on the average person. Most average people can be interrupted from a book or movie and regain awareness in several seconds, but...

I don't think a central fleet approach will make a profit anytime soon (for same reasons taxies struggle against Uber). Instead the model that might work is each car owner manages their own vehicle and Tesla takes a cut out of any revenue made and/or the owner uses it for personal use. Of...

FYI, up thread it was posted that the current theory is Tesla is using modular E2E, meaning there are still separate perception, prediction, planning NNs. What makes it E2E is that they are NN and the output at the end is fed back to the prior NNs (instead of them being 100% independent). As...

They had one a long time ago. The difference is they are working on one (Dojo) based on an in-house chip (D1, as opposed to buying off the shelf). It's already in operation, but they are using it in parallel with clusters based on Nvidia hardware (as opposed to having all eggs in one basket)...

If you have been following Model 3, originally there was going to be a metal roof option. However, it costs Tesla less money just to have one option, most people seem to place more value on glass roofs, plus it would have only been that small section above the driver/front passenger that would...

V11.1 is the UI version, not FSD. 2024.8 branch does not have V12 yet, so you are stuck not getting the trial if you are on that branch. You would have to wait. The latest version is on 2024.3.20. 2024.3.20 Official Tesla Release Notes - Software Updates If you need a hardware upgrade, it will...

You were already on the 2024.8 branch (you are currently on 2024.8.7 updating to 2024.8.9), which doesn't have FSD yet. You would have to wait until they release FSD to that branch first. That's one of the negatives of doing updates too quickly if you want FSD, you may be put on a branch with no...

Not if you read the thread. Some people got it free because the SC seemed to have put in the wrong code, but then eventually they caught on and then it was ended. There is no official policy that it is free for people without paid FSD, just that you have to gamble on the SC entering the free...

I don't think L3 is worth any effort. It's been more than a year since Mercedes announced L3 certification in the US and there so far is still not a single customer that reported using it yet. Mercedes-Benz world’s first automotive company to certify SAE Level 3 system for U.S. market |...

The same reason people use AP on highways: it frees you from micromanagement of steering/pedals so you can focus on what's on the road.

That's talking about Spot (dog analog) and Stretch (wheeled arm robot), not Atlas (the humanoid robot being compared to Optimus here). There is no commercial application for Atlas yet. In fact the whole recent announcement is them switching to electric motors for the new version because they...

Tesla has negative political sway nowadays in California since the move to Texas (plus other Elon things I won't list here as mods may frown upon). As it relates to FSD, there was a law specifically passed to ban Tesla from using that name...

What Tesla is doing is called marketing and how successful companies are able to sell products in high volume vs companies stuck selling a product in very narrow niche applications.

The previous version was hydraulics based vs Optimus being electric motor based. The new Atlas appears to have switched to electric motors also, but appears to have far more complex articulation. Depends on how much volume is required to reach the price point. But I think the challenge of...

There's no indication that Spot is any more durable than the cheaper alternatives (whether battery life, resistance to damage, or how long the components will last). The more advanced part has more to do with the articulation and the sensors on board. All humanoid robots are paper weights...

It's not just drive monitoring, it's monitoring that informs the driver the car is not autonomous (not just monitoring an employee), reinforces with strikes, plus the fact there is no fall back at all (red hands). Basically the DMV would already be forcing Tesla to get permits for all the people...

Spot is not useless, it can be used to go into dangerous areas, just like how police have been using specialized robots in the past, except it is even more flexible, given it has legs instead of tracks. But the question is if it is $75k useful when there is similar product that costs just $2700...

Your picture looks like there might be some very faint markings. Note some markings are almost invisible unless you shine the light at the correct angle (the U3 chip on the right using similar type of printing which is very hard to see). Take a bright LED light and shine it at various angles...

Of course it's, not that simple. Just because you declare a system as L2 doesn't mean it matches SAE L2. You still need to evaluate how the system operates. Again, Uber tried declaring their system as L2, but CA DMV didn't buy it, simply because it didn't operate as one. Uber is stubbornly...

As impressive as the Boston Dynamics robots are, they are very much a parallel to Waymo or other fleet robotaxies, in which the price tag is way too high for people in the general public to own widely. For example Spot is $75k. I imagine Atlas's price tag is going to be significantly higher than...

Nope incorrect. You can have a SAE L4 system that has no geofences, but it is still SAE L4. One example is one that doesn't work in fog that humans can still drive in. Such a car can have no geofence and drive everywhere in the US, but it'll squarely be SAE L4 given it can't handle fog (which a...

Yes, it has always been this way. The difference is the "single tap" function was recently introduced (the one where you click once for AP or FSD instead of once for TACC and twice for AP & FSD) and Tesla made it mandatory when the car is in FSD mode.

Take pictures of the issues, make a service request in the app and describe the problems as delivery issues, attaching the pictures in the request. Make sure you take screenshots as evidence you reported them in a timely manner, given sometimes the request can get deleted. Generally if the...

My understanding is this can already be done with a profile swap. Or are you saying is it not possible without going to park?

By V12 unsupervised, my take is he means the performance if the driver doesn't take over. Basically the complaint by some is the current stats are biased because the driver takes over, but what would the stat be if the driver didn't? I imagine they are modeling that by looking at the NN...

Where does Elon claim V12 is already L3? Link? I must have missed it. If he claimed that, he would already be subject to permit requirements in California, as well as registering test drivers as AV test drivers.

I don't have FSD, but I notice the same with AP. A similar thing happens when the vehicle ahead slows down. It lets the gap go down, but when the vehicle speeds up, it takes its merry time to increase the speed.

You are assuming the dealers are not aware of the car being potentially marked as salvage in the database, when it's fairly likely they had that wording in the auction paperwork but never disclosed that to the end user. Again for these cases (there are similar ones about FSD options being...

As others mentioned, in this case it was the dealer being a scammer (which is probably why they went out of business). I noticed in a lot of these cases the dealers never provide all the auction paperwork. I suspect the auction paperwork itself may have a section that indicates the car may be...

That's the theory and it has some merit, but given it just happened with Waymo, reality doesn't seem to match theory. But when you have more data you necessarily have to weigh it. And when the maps are prerequisite, you most likely will place significantly higher weight on the map than if it...

But the former approach is already deployable as a door-to-door L2 system (deployed to hundreds of thousands if not over a million vehicles already), which makes it commercially viable. In fact this approach likely is more net profitable than deploying robotaxies in extremely limited areas (due...

That's not maintaining a lane, it's exiting, so there is a transition between the two systems, which people up thread mentioned has been a problem. That's different than for example it struggling to stay inside a lane while fully in the highway.

USS has Autopark already if you bought FSD or have the trial or subscription. Autopark with USS works based on the sensors. That means to find a space, there must be cars on either side of the space. You also must drive SLOWLY past the space before it detects it. This is because it requires the...

Theoretically that is the case, but in practical reality when your cars exclusively drive in HD mapped areas as a minimum requirement for operation (which is the case for Waymo, as well as a few different L2 systems) you tend to place higher confidence in it than a system that does not use HD...

There was a similar story for Autopilot years ago back in 2016, I don't think that came back and bit them. Tesla’s Autopilot Is Flawed. But Is It Also a Lifesaver?

There are no statistics to show if this is more prevalent in Teslas or not. But with a quick Google it's not hard to find examples of the big 3 German brands with the same issues, with comments saying even that it's not uncommon (meaning the dealer says it's not the only case even at their...

I suspect it does meet minimum quality, especially if the distortion isn't even noticable with careful inspection and only noticable when driving the car for a while. If the process is like the how it's made video, distortion isn't even checked for, only other defects like marks, cracks, and...

Cars without USS have switched over to a vision based park assist system. This means the distances shown (when it does) are no longer as accurate, especially in the front, where there is a huge blind spot for the cameras. In exchange you get a 3D rendering of the environment all around the car...

Yes, which is exactly what the comment you were responding to said. It never said it was set at the socket. If you must set a limit on the socket end, the EVSE would need to be installed with the outlet and set to the 8A limit on the EVSE side.

Probably talking about the Bolt, which likes to default back to 8A when charging on L1. Charging Rate Keeps Defaulting to 8 Amps It appears to be a carry over from the Volt days, when they had problems with melting plugs (which is why they introduced the 8A default limit): 'The Truth About...