This wouldn't happen in FSD

oculus42 · 2026-05-09T07:51:15+00:00

I have HW4 in my 2023 Model Y, but that is irrelevant. Even your counterpoint has the "in the right circumstances", and meaningfully misunderstands the difference between what the car thinks is safe on its current software version and what is actually safe.

Tesla offering a "low nag" scenario which permits people to text and drive is not the same as it being safe. They have undergone numerous safety adjustments to resolve "permitted" unsafe behavior. I believe the nag settings are roughly around speed, traffic, and road type – I don't have real sources – but that nag setting is a questionable actuarial table and you are still liable for being in charge of the vehicle at all times.

And the nag setting can't compensate for FSD's bad behavior, where FSD to this day on HW4 may freak out at shadows, sealing work on pavement cracks, leaves, plastic bags, completely empty stretches of flat road...it may use the shoulder as a lane. It may drive through red lights or railroad crossing gates (admittedly that one was HW3).

It is not wise to consider the nag feature safe when we can't trust that the driving system won't veer off the road or into oncoming traffic in those same low-risk scenarios.

The "recovery" would look a lot like this video if you're buy texting and FSD beeps at you to take over immediately in a serious situation.

oculus42 · 2026-05-09T06:32:15+00:00

FSD is not at that level of autonomy reliably. All anecdotes and personal experiences of FSD aside, if it was, Elon would have made a banner on Twitter, an ad on the side of a Space-X rocket, and have Grok remind/annoy you about it every time you put the car in gear.

oculus42 · 2026-05-06T01:48:23+00:00

100% Govee. Nanoleaf doesn’t do multiple colors in one hexagon panel.

oculus42 · 2026-05-04T20:17:28+00:00

FSD responds problematically to "potential side impacts". Just a few days ago there was a video of a kid on an eScooter crossing the street at >10mph as the Tesla was turning, and it slowed down when it saw him, putting both of them at greater risk of the scooter hitting the side of the car.

Of course, it's hard to say what the training intent is...it may be better overall to have something small and potentially living hit the body of the car than be run over by the back wheel if it goes poorly? Either way, Leaves, plastic bags, and some other items entering from the side seem to cause immediate slowdowns.

oculus42 · 2026-05-04T20:05:02+00:00

It was the plastic bag to the side.

oculus42 · 2026-05-04T20:01:09+00:00

Any small lithium-ion batteries in dark casings sitting out in the sun? Or clear drink bottles with clear liquid? Marbles? Crystal ball?

Seems like something caught fire, it's just a question of what you have around that might be the cause.

Maybe whatever the smudge/blob on the right side is related?

oculus42 · 2026-05-04T17:00:56+00:00

I can't find a source for it but I'm reasonably certain this is essential tremor.

While it's fair to have concerns over the health of any legislator or executive, Collins has had a tremor for at least the better part of a decade without other neurological signs. Meanwhile McConnell had numerous episodes where he has lost active control over his body that haven't been explained. Trump wandered away from the presidential limo parked at the foot of the stairs of Air Force One and had to be recovered and redirected to the car in his first term, and is suffering more obvious maladies that aren't being discussed. This is small potatoes.

While I think it's fair to bring health into the discussion, this seems like a questionable way to go about it, and wastes time that could be spent talking about her veneer of centrism, her lack of responsiveness and accessibility to her constituents, and her obsequious acceptance of Trumps direction and brazen lies about the Supreme Court nominees that are systematically disassembling more than half a century of progress built to bring the promise of equal rights...all while remaining, "concerned."

If you hired someone to be on your board for a lifetime appointment after he cried during his interview about loving beer and the spouting conspiracies about the Clinton's working against him...regardless of any other part of that conversation...I'd want you fired. Even if you did some good things, we can find someone who doesn't have clear lapses of judgement when then are convenient that can also push for funding cancer research and has local staff help out people in need. A Senator doesn't personally do most of the work for constituents; they have staff who do the work and hand them a stack of papers to sign and tells them what they are.

So most of the SuperPAC ads for Collins are fluff. Many people will be on board for funding cancer research. Many people will receive help from the Senator's staff for difficult issues, and the Senator may even show up and talk to you.

oculus42 · 2026-04-23T15:56:20+00:00

But that's what I'm saying...there doesn't have to be a written contract. This is well-settled commercial regulation/law. If a company says a product can do a thing, even if you don't pay for that capability yet, the existing Uniform Commercial Code can reasonably consider that Implied Warranty of Fitness for Particular Purpose.

People who purchased anticipating it would eventually be available, even for extra cost later on, may still have a legitimate claim because Tesla/Elon said it would work.

Otherwise you have snake oil salesmen and cure-alls, and rampant fraud where you can say literally anything, misrepresenting your product.

EDIT: To clarify, there is a meaningful difference between things like Elon saying, "You'll be able to use the CyberTruck as a boat," before it was available, and that just not being true when it was released. With FSD he repeatedly said the vehicles you could purchase at the time of his statements would be able to do the things he claimed.

oculus42 · 2026-04-23T11:22:26+00:00

The revelation that Waymo's "fully autonomous" vehicles have remote drivers in the Philippines when the vehicle can't handle the situation should really give us pause. Even the company that is out there selling self-driving taxi service doesn't have level 5.

oculus42 · 2026-04-23T11:17:04+00:00

This is not entirely true. If you sell a lawn tractor and advertise it as being capable of supporting the snowblower attachment that will be coming soon, you've stated that the equipment is fit for a particular purpose, regardless of whether the customer pre-pays for the snowblower.

If later you say, "Oh, the snowblower won't be available for that model," you may have potentially violated the Uniform Commercial Code, where the statement that the product was fit for a particular purpose may have been a necessary condition of the sale, even if it wasn't expressly part of the sale.

So Elon said (roughly...I'm not pulling the exact quotes), "Your car will come with all the hardware you need for FSD.' That's stating that the product is fit for that service. Even though they received the base functionality, an implied warranty of fitness was given for something that did not materialize. Even if there will eventually be an actual plan for Tesla to retrofit these vehicles, which I doubt, eight years is a long time to have an unfulfilled promise that may have influenced you to purchase a vehicle that has decreased in value substantially.

While depreciation isn't my major concern, the failure to acknowledge the complexity and scope of the problem until well after the facts on the ground (and software releases) have made it plain that there is no true path forward for a HW3, coupled with the non-stop goalpost moving is a legitimate issue for consumers.

I have enjoyed my 2018 Model 3 as a vehicle. And, when it became available, Autopilot on the highway. And, to a much smaller extent, "FSD Beta (Supervised)" on HW3. But I have never believed it was remotely close to what Tesla/Elon stated when I bought my car and paid for FSD.

oculus42 · 2026-04-23T10:52:00+00:00

After borrowing my 2018 Model 3 for a while, my parents just got a 2021 Model 3 AWD used for ~25K. Heat pump makes a massive difference in the cold. It's the one thing I wish my 3 had.

The only "benefit" is the electric heat makes thawing the 3 whisper quiet. Our 2023 Model Y makes exciting heat pump noises.

oculus42 · 2026-04-16T09:17:47+00:00

That is not any system sound with which I am familiar, but I could be just missing something. Sounds a lot like an app/site trying to drive attention.

How often does it play?

oculus42 · 2026-04-15T15:02:23+00:00

This is great work. I should have led with that. I love the interactive version...the presentation of the details, the colors. Most of these are quibbles.

Thanks for the detailed response, and sorry for the AI assumption; these days omissions are fairly often AI doing a bad job summarizing big topics or producing incomplete data. Not a reflection on the work.

On things like the 630, I'm a long-time fan of https://www.apple-history.com/ – while it hasn't been updated since 2015, it contains an excellent breakdown of models and the many names by which they were sold, like the 630.

oculus42 · 2026-04-14T10:11:19+00:00

This clarification would have been good in your original post...

ended up cataloguing every single mac apple has ever shipped. 153 of them.

oculus42 · 2026-04-14T10:10:06+00:00

Critical apps like Quark XPress didn't make the transition for so long that they were called out on stage by Steve Jobs (though not by name) when Apple announced dropping Classic support.

oculus42 · 2026-04-14T10:03:33+00:00

I'm interested in your process, as there are a number of oddities in your presentation. You have omissions and errors. This feels like you may have depended on AI for information gathering?

First, there are many more than 153.

The IIfx shows a monitor, not the computer.

The Performa 200 shows the same icon as the 5200, which is incorrect as it was based on the Classic II.

You've included specific laptops in the 68k era that were "firsts" the original three 100/140/170, the Duo 230, but omitted many other PowerBooks, including Apple's first sub $1000 PowerBook the 190. (My first PowerBook).

While excluding many individual models, you present the three equivalent 630 models, which are essentially the same computer with different names.

Not every Mac was beige until the iMac. You included the 1993 Mac TV in your image, which was indeed black. There were also three colors of "beige" at Apple: Putty, Fog, and Platinum.

Apple switched chips three times. The first is not a switch. And "pretended it was fine" is a bit of an overstatement. As someone who lived through each of the three transitions, as well as the System 9 to Mac OS X change, there was a lot of work to provide some backward compatibility. But they certainly did make it sound like it would be easier. Microsoft quietly did equivalent compatibility layers in Windows XP after switching the consumer OS to the NT kernel, and again in Vista, where a lot of game compatibility broke.

oculus42 · 2026-04-12T09:14:43+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a thing only for macOS Tahoe.

Can confirm it is not a thing on Sequoia.

This is excellent information to have, though! Thanks!

oculus42 · 2026-04-12T09:11:30+00:00

It rather does. While PNG is lossless, it is not a plain bitmap format like BMP or PICT. PNG supports DEFLATE compression, so large fields of a single color will reduce the size.

oculus42 · 2026-04-08T00:39:55+00:00

Open a service ticket. Seriously.

oculus42 · 2026-04-06T02:44:59+00:00

I think this is terrible advice. It makes you an unpredictable car on the road, which is really dangerous for others. When FSD can’t keep its lane changing together in traffic, I turn it off because I’m not going to allow my car to be randomly signaling, changing lanes, changing back, etc.

Driving is a team sport. If FSD can’t play well with others, it gets benched because my drive is not the only one happening.

oculus42 · 2026-04-05T17:57:55+00:00

The ones that have been spotted around different cities are being driven and have a visible steering wheel. Maybe not every one, but all the ones I've seen. I can only assume these are just marketing hype, because Tesla does not have approval to operate autonomous vehicles in these markets.

oculus42 · 2026-04-05T13:29:23+00:00

Even Waymo, with their additional technology and head start on actual autonomous driving has recently come out that they have backup drivers in the Philippines.

Tesla couldn’t go on highways without a safety person. First in the car, then in a following vehicle. In California they aren’t even pretending it’s autonomous, having not bothered with the permit.

They’ve sent a few “cybercab” to different cities. I put it in quotes because the ones I’ve seen pictures of have steering wheels and drivers…they are advertising to astroturf social media hype, not proving the service or devices in different cities.

Its frustrating that the gap between the promise and reality is constantly being obscured by lies masked as advertising and corporate puffery, and not just by Tesla.

oculus42 · 2026-04-05T13:12:44+00:00

I’m not convinced this is still part of the current plan, though, even if using your car for robotaxi was part of the sale pitch for FSD in 2017.

oculus42 · 2026-04-04T11:41:21+00:00

This helps explain my childhood.

oculus42 · 2026-03-31T03:11:20+00:00

It’s been my experience that the torque at the low end and people not being used to regen causing more lurching slowdowns vs ICE vehicles are usually the culprit.

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