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I find these half measure autopilots way more stressful than actually just driving.

Level 2-3 FSD is worse experience in my opinion.

1) driving as human — if I see brake lights, I apply brakes: see my turn, turn the wheel.

2) Tesla “driving” - if I see brake lights, I have to evaluate “did FSD See those lights, is it applying brakes” EVERY TIME. Because I need to pay attention. THEN I may apply the brakes and turn wheel (and if you use FSD a LOT, those skills will atrophy). it needs human intervention about once a day. But you never know when that will be.

We either need FSD or humans driving. Shared dynamically adhoc responsibility for the car is way way worse.

The CyberCab at least improves on that by removing the steering wheel, so when it makes mistakes you just along for the ride.

I am a curmudgeon though; I don’t even use cruise control, and the radar following cruise control gives me the same hereby jeebies “is it braking??” Problem



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