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Financial analysts Tesla CEO Elon Musk He suggested investors would need to try out the company’s so-called fully self-driving (FSD) feature to understand it, saying the company narrowly avoided a collision while testing the system.
Truist Securities analyst William Stein said in a note to investors: Tesla Model Y During a test drive outside New York this month, the car had to intervene several times, including to avoid an accident when the car in front stopped early on a curve.
“The Model Y accelerated through the intersection while the vehicle in front was only partially turning right,” Stein wrote. “My rapid intervention was essential to avoiding an accident.”
Stein said the FSD adjusted well to a variety of unexpected road conditions, including potholes, moving traffic and closed lanes, and that it “generally felt more natural” than during his last FSD test drive in April. But he encountered a few other issues during his latest test drive.
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A Tesla analyst took the car on a test drive in Full Self-Driving mode and was forced to intervene to avoid an accident. (Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images/Getty Images)
He wrote that FSD required less concentration than expected, and that it took 20 to 40 seconds for the system to issue a warning when Stein “took his head completely off the road” while his son was driving. Traffic monitoring “To warn him of the danger.”
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Stein also received instructions from the FSD: Police Officer The vehicle was waved over to the side of the road to allow a funeral procession to pass, and the Model Y also used the FSD to change lanes in sections of the road where lane changes are prohibited, the company said.
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Tesla’s fully self-driving system requires attentive driver supervision. (Stanislav Kogik/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“Finally, on parts of our route, the highway is winding and narrow, with solid white lines separating the lanes. Lane change“And yet the Model Y changed lanes twice under those circumstances,” he wrote.
The vehicle driven by Stein was running FSD 12.3.6 in “demo mode,” which is only available to dealers during test drives, not Tesla owners.
The 12.3.6 version of FSD was released this spring. Musk announced Monday that Tesla is pushing ahead with a new update to the feature, with FSD 12.5.1 due to be released, telling owners to “connect your Tesla to WiFi to receive the update.” He sees FSD as a key part of Tesla’s investment in artificial intelligence (AI).
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk sees Full Self-Driving as Tesla’s self-driving “solution.” (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images, Courtesy of The New York Times/Getty Images)
Stein concluded that while FSD is “really cool,” it’s “still a long way from ‘solving’ autonomous driving” that Musk suggested FSD could eventually achieve, adding that the test drive left him with questions about Tesla’s future robotaxi events.
” [Advanced Driver Assistance Systems] Performance required for operation Driverless cars (robo-taxi) “Given the system’s current performance, we remain wary of what Tesla will show at its robotaxi event, which was recently postponed from August to October,” Stein said. “We are hopeful and indeed optimistic that improvements to the FSD will allow Tesla to deliver even safer and more convenient autonomous capabilities over time.”
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Tesla explains in the Model Y owner’s manual that drivers using FSD should “enable Full Self-Driving (with supervision) and not allow the Model Y to drive autonomously. A careful driver Someone who is always ready to take immediate action. During fully automated driving (supervised) operation, they must constantly monitor their surroundings and other road users.”
