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For the uninitiated, what technologies do Waymos use that allow them to offer unsupervised FSD?

I ask because I find my Tesla Model Y FSD to be incredible, requiring effectively no intervention (only in parking lots because I am picky about where I like to park), and I often wonder if it is purely bureaucratic inertia that is preventing it from being treated as unsupervised.

The real heart of what I am getting at: will Waymo in Canada nudge the regulators to reconsider Tesla FSD or does it have something special that Tesla is lacking?

Yes

Pothole avoidance is on their “coming soon” list in the last few software update notes. It can’t come soon enough!

I concur. Only once you get used to FSD do you realize how the thousands of micro decisions and constant attention demands of driving actually do add friction. Arriving at a destination using FSD completely fresh mentally is really quite something. The longer the drive, the greater the difference.

> The long-tail of edge conditions to handle is really long, and Rivian is only at the beginning.

I still find it insane that the entire established automotive industry saw what Tesla was doing with cameras and incrementally working toward FSD, and still to this day has not even started to collect data (or even install enough instruments to collect the data!) to get onto the same trajectory. Meanwhile the Model Y is the best selling car in the world multiple years in a row.

They’re all hostile.