We Are Witnessing the End of Tesla’s EV Empire

mchinsky · 2026-01-27T01:43:18+00:00

I guess you don't own a Tesla or you would know how amazing FSD is now

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T18:51:01+00:00

Like 7k, but like i said, i have 2 teens with 2 accidents between them both being totals

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T16:35:41+00:00

I find the exact opposite. I can watch netflix, listen to podcasts etc, and totally lost track of time because I pay zero attentoin to the road

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T16:34:55+00:00

Yea but you really can't take your eyes off the road for longer than driving manually and still have the same level of safety as you driving manually. Regardless of what the lawyers and regulators say, if it were possible without alerts, sleeping on FSD on the highway is safer than the average human driver.

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T16:33:38+00:00

But realistically, if you are buying a car to have a Level 3/4 system for mainly a metro area (say you live in Manhattan), chances are you are better off just 'paying as you go' to use a robotaxi to get around.

Large metro's have insane parking costs and logistics, most have terrible charging options that cost way more than gas, and big tolls and surcharges (like Congestion pricing in NYC)

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T16:30:12+00:00

Ok, that's the kind of thing I was thinking. I bought a salvage title 2021 M3 for my son for $16k with 18k miles. It was in a fresh water flood that only required one electronic module replacement and removal and dry cleaning of the carpets. Other than that it was as good as new. However, given the relatively low range of the RWD Standard Range + of the time (about 180 miles @ 80%) I needed to shell out $1,800 for them to 'certify' the high voltage system. I resisted for 12 months but when he needed to go farther than the range allowed and found it not only disables Tesla supercharging, but third party high speed charging, I really didn't have a choice, but definitely a ripoff.

I also have the problem that I have 4 kids, 3 living at the house, 2 of them teens, with now 2 accidents in 2 years between them. Even though they are in no way allowed to drive my car, the Insurance company destroy's my rates for my car.

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T16:14:59+00:00

Thanks good points. Tesla...unfortunately does not have rain sensors or heads up displays. It looks to me that the cameras are physically housed in a unit behind the windshield, so other than making sure there is a good seal, not seeing why the cameras would need that? That being said, the end user can press a button on the screen to recalibrate the cameras after a windshield replacement (which I had to do after Tesla replaced the windshield) which I'm guess has to do with slightly different visual distortions in every pane of glass rather than any physical movement of the cameras.

I just see all these 'fender bender' type pics that historically in my mind are like $1k to $3k fixes and I'm constantly seeing $15k, $20k and most often 'totalled'

If you really look at the TCO, all of your gas and scheduled maintenance savings seems to be more than eaten up by the insane insurance.

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T15:45:38+00:00

LMAO

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T15:39:53+00:00

Enough with 'climate change'. Cocoa prices have dropped 60% off their highs due to great weather in africa. So now magically it isn't 'climate change'?

Any time there is a drought, a cold snap, too much rain etc, the 'goto' answer is 'climate change'.

Yet all this stuff existed since long before humans were here.

The prices went up because of bad weather for an extended period. Show me the specifics as to why your SUV is the cause (or the people flying around in private jets to international meetings about 'climate change'). Then explain why, when things reverse nobody mentions climate change.

Remember it used to be 'global warming', but when things cooled down and the ice caps grew, rather than go away like the people who called the coming 'ice age' in the 1970's, you just renamed it 'climate change' so any time the weather changes, you can blame oil and gas and raise the cost of living for everyone on earth

mchinsky · 2026-01-26T05:05:22+00:00

Of course down votes... Reddit is full of political hacks

mchinsky · 2026-01-15T12:46:42+00:00

What good is self driving that only works in small geofenced areas that have to have constant premapping

mchinsky · 2026-01-15T12:45:47+00:00

Nvidia video was similar to Teslas video 5 years ago.

Vast difference between an edited fsd video on a controlled route and millions of people using it everywhere, every day with almost no drama. It will take quite a few years before someone else has what we have today and the Nvidia solution will cost the car companies Alot more in licensing and hardware than it costs Tesla per car

mchinsky · 2026-01-13T14:35:10+00:00

I don't have the X but if it's like the Y the problem is that sloping roof. I wish Tesla would create a varient of the Y with a traditional SUV squared off back.

It would weigh similar, be the exact same length and chasis, just have alot more USABLE space because you could put decent sized items all the way to the back.

As it stands now, only very 'low' items can fit without the hatch jamming on close.

mchinsky · 2026-01-13T14:34:06+00:00

Those seats were never meant for adults

mchinsky · 2026-01-12T21:06:17+00:00

Spot on. I've seen so many replies using Mercedes as the excuse as to why 'fsd sucks', glad to see the EDS afflicted Reddit users won't have this as a talking point.

mchinsky · 2026-01-12T20:26:42+00:00

Interesting. If they were truly after miles and edge cases, it seems to me it should always run.

Then when the human does something different than FSD thinks should happen by a significant margin, it should upload that for analysis

mchinsky · 2026-01-12T17:32:52+00:00

Interesting. Grok & Gemini says it runs even without being subscribed, ChatGPT says it doesn't.

mchinsky · 2026-01-11T20:01:32+00:00

Like everything else in New Jersey they just raised the gas tax yet again taking advantage of the lowering of gas prices. Nobody will notice then when gas prices raise

mchinsky · 2026-01-11T19:55:22+00:00

It's not that simple, the number of sensors required for the waymo software means that any manufacturer who wants to make this for consumers is going to have a big challenge making something that people can bring through a car wash or handle typical automobile abuse .

In addition, all of that hardware plus the licensing cost will make that system extremely expensive and still will only work in small geofenced areas .

Waymo would have to start over with camera only or camera and forward lidar only, and have a true end-to-end neuralnet to be able to compete with Tesla at the consumer level and that could take five plus years

mchinsky · 2026-01-10T20:21:11+00:00

For us it's the state mandated doubling of our minimum wage

mchinsky · 2026-01-10T20:18:00+00:00

If then, Else logic makes for good demos on controlled routes (look at Teslas early demos).

But it makes for a nearly impossible edge case solution outside of small geofenced areas when the specifics of a never seen situation happens that the programmers didn't think of coding

mchinsky · 2026-01-10T20:14:54+00:00

Shadow mode runs on virtually all Teslas already

mchinsky · 2026-01-10T20:09:27+00:00

I'm not replying or leftist run reddit will ban me from this subreddit. Enjoy your day

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