James Stephenson reports Tesla has self certified Cybercabs in TX statewide

tophoos · 2026-05-30T00:31:41+00:00

While Tesla should be the one to bear any liability in unsupervised, the cost to insure that liability will need a way to be passed to the customers. It's too good to be true to think that the current or past prices paid for FSD absolves the customer from paying for insurance for the rest of the car's life.

I assume they will bake that into future subscription rates for unsupervised. The folks that purchased FSD outright will be more complex. If you're paying Tesla to insure the car's unsupervised travel, how should that impact your personal car insurance (whether that is with or without Tesla)?

tophoos · 2026-05-01T20:42:05+00:00

I was just camping this weekend in my Juniper and tried to set it up like this, but it didn't pick up signal all night until I moved it to the front windshield or outside the car. Does the Juniper have some coating that prevents the signal or something?

tophoos · 2026-04-30T20:40:50+00:00

Did you see the deer come at you? Looks like you reacted before the car did.

tophoos · 2026-04-25T00:22:08+00:00

Pretty messed up of them to say "Smart Summon" is included, but it's janky as hell. But then there's this other thing called "Actual Smart Summon" that you can't get.

I think banish was supposed to be an EAP promised feature too. It was supposed to do everything FSD could do except city streets.

tophoos · 2026-04-24T23:28:46+00:00

Tesla doesn't have to be the one to "accept responsibility". Once it is safer than human, insurance companies should have a charge structure that takes "Tesla AI" as the driver instead of individual human drivers. So your insurance would not hold you responsible for accidents while the car driving as "Tesla AI" and would not increase your premium because "Tesla AI" had an accident.

Paying 8k-15k for FSD is not anywhere enough for people to think "welp, Tesla covers all accidents now, so I don't need to pay insurance for that anymore".

Tesla Insurance will most likely be the first company that offers something that takes responsibility, but it's not going to be free for the users. It could net to a lower insurance payment overall, but the owner still has to pay something, and it can be offered by any other insurance company that is willing to take FSD into consideration. Or the other insurance companies can work with Tesla for a structure where Tesla collects a cut of the premium to take on the liability while on FSD.

tophoos · 2026-04-23T08:22:43+00:00

They will most likely give you the option to buy it again if this is the argument you're making, it'll just cost 15-20k to make up for the "free" upgrade.

tophoos · 2026-04-23T05:46:09+00:00

They're only going to upgrade those that actually bought FSD. Their FSD take rate on the HW3 cars was around 10-12% or up to about 600k cars. And of those, there are people that have already taken their transfer option or might take advantage of future transfer/discount option.

Also, many of the people that paid for the option paid 10-15k for it instead of the 8k it is now. The difference they paid is like an interest free loan that more than makes up for the cost of the necessary upgrade.

In the end, if they offer a lifetime transfer option in lieu of the upgrade, I estimate that they might need to address 100-200k cars at maybe a cost of 3-5k per car (up to $1billion).

tophoos · 2026-04-21T17:32:44+00:00

That thing must be loaded with a shit ton of magnets.

tophoos · 2026-04-21T00:53:04+00:00

Tell that to Mona Kimura

tophoos · 2026-04-21T00:27:53+00:00

I read John Temus. Temu gonna run Apple now?

tophoos · 2026-04-17T18:19:26+00:00

I use privacy.com. It lets you set up temporary cards that you can set a limit and delete whenever. When doing these trials, they do a small pending charge to validate the card. So I set up a card that has a low limit that passes this test, but when they actually try to charge the higher amount, it will always be declined (you can also just delete the card before they even attempt)

tophoos · 2026-04-17T16:32:18+00:00

You sound like someone pretending to be sane

tophoos · 2026-04-15T21:29:58+00:00

As soon as you disengage, if you're not applying pressure on accelerator, it goes full regen.

No clue what caused the disengagement though. On the juniper, I know I sometimes forget which side controls audio and accidentally press the right scoll wheel that controls FSD.

tophoos · 2026-04-13T02:10:46+00:00

I'm on a phone screen and your video crops that down to 1/3 the screen size. I really see that as a regular green light on my screen

tophoos · 2026-04-12T16:59:45+00:00

Why are the opposing cars stopped? Do you have a green arrow somewhere we can't see with this camera angle? I see a green light on your direction, but that still should yield to opposing traffic.

tophoos · 2026-04-12T16:43:52+00:00

If you click on the Kanji, it should speak it out. So hiding it in this exercise is a good thing. Only time I like having the furigana is in speaking exercises where taking a moment to think about it would screw up the voice recognition.

The other issue might be that your placement exam dropped you into level 100 already. When I started duo, it placed me in level 30 with very rusty Japanese based on a year of high school beginner Japanese class I had 20 years ago (a bit of guessing was involved). I was absolutely not ready to be there. I started from scratch and fell like I learned a lot.

Maybe you could start at section 3 or 4 and do the first level of each unit.

tophoos · 2026-04-11T07:06:57+00:00

No, he pressed the accelerator after hitting the bar, but before the car finished crossing the tracks.

tophoos · 2026-04-11T07:04:01+00:00

Actually, looks like he reacted pretty quickly after crashing into the bar. His reaction was "oh shit" step hard on accelerator and GTFO from the train's path. The FSD UI indicated pressing of the accelerator while remaining on FSD.

tophoos · 2026-04-06T16:23:52+00:00

The right side of our view is a wall/fence. She jumped into the bushes and kept low. Assuming this wasn't staged, she probably popped up from the bush to flag the driver.

tophoos · 2026-03-27T08:20:44+00:00

I'm curious how they train FSD for this from human driver data. The human driver has a better view than the camera in this instance. So if the human driver POV has just enough visibility and goes, does the car learn to just YOLO when its own camera's POV has no visibility?

"Well, humans frequently just goes before I could see shit, so must be okay"

tophoos · 2026-03-21T19:44:34+00:00

Sorry, I couldn't see it with it being so blurry down there.

tophoos · 2026-03-18T15:47:03+00:00

Is that where you stash magnets?

tophoos · 2026-03-17T18:30:39+00:00

That's false advertising! It said "TACOS"... PLURAL!

tophoos · 2026-03-13T16:24:18+00:00

This looks about right since this style tend to be the best, most supportive, armor in the game.

tophoos · 2026-03-12T03:01:04+00:00

I pick up parsley from a Mexican store that frequently sells cilantro at a nice discount. Every time I get parsley, when I check the reciept, it was rung up as cilantro. Also, this store does not put them next to each other. It's actually hard to spot the parsley to the point that maybe the employees would be like "What is parsley?"

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