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This could just mean it's safer now.

You've experienced many false positives (braking going off for no reason), which is not a surprise, because they're lower cost than false negatives (braking not going off when needed), so if you work in Tesla AI you're going to accept lots of them in exchange for a tiny reduction in false negatives.

But maybe 1 in 1000 people will get to experience the true positive (braking going off when needed) that would have otherwise been a false negative, and their life was saved as a result of the updates, unbeknown to them.



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