gearchruncher
Well-Known Member
Gee, I wonder what could have caused a company that is laying off 10% of the workforce including the whole supercharger team to "jump the gun" on releasing a free trial of some very expensive software?I do think they jumped the gun by at least several months on offering the free trials when they did.
The irony to all of this is that things like learning how to handle a 4 way stop are better learned without FSD being in active use.
Roll up to a 4 way stop. The FSD code can easily see this in "shadow" mode. It can even see intent with things like turn signals. It decides it can not go yet for reasons X such as another car arriving first. However, the driver does actually go. There you go, upload that video, and it's even semi-labeled for you and is positive reinforcement.
This is much better than only learning when a driver is actively using FSD and decides to disengage. However, it has two downsides: First, it requires much more compute since you'll get orders of magnitude more videos to include. Second, as a transparent background process, it does not make for a sexy marketing message like "free FSD trial" does.