It's not just "tricky situations", sometimes FSD will do things that no normal driver would ever do, and it will do them inconsistently. Sometimes it's brilliant and sometimes it's drunk.

"Reannounces recall", "previously recalled in April 2025". If it doesn't work, try it again, I suppose.

What a terrible narrative for an article. A failed marketing campaign - no matter how long - doesn't mean a company is full of "hypocrisy". It just means that people were not convinced. This is not any different than every other failed product in the marketplace.

I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing

Probably selection effect. Tesla owners with FSD are often aware of its shortcomings and will not use it in situations where it wouldn't work, much less post clips of their mistakes online. People seem to agree it works fine on highways where cars travel in consistent patterns.

Waymos are in the exact opposite situation. They only run in busy cities so there are lots of bystanders to take a video of the situation, including the passenger, who has no incentive to hide the issue. Waymos can't revert to a driver in the car when things get tough; they call back to their monitoring center and come to a halt, which draws further attention and mockery.

You cannot assume that online algorithms are giving you a unbiased, neutral view of the world. They are specifically tuned against that.

> will not use it in situations where it wouldn't work

Often "cannot". FSD will refuse to engage in those situations, often.

But Elon will trot out "so much safer", omitting "for some conditions, on some road, in some weather", versus "all drivers, all conditions, all road, all weather".

"You see, we win the vast majority of games when we just don't play the ones we thought we might lose!"

> FSD will refuse to engage in those situations, often

this is not true. It will basically engage any time your foot is not on the brake, the steering angle isn't beyond some threshold, and path prediction is relatively stable (which is approximately all the time). The main place it will refuse to engage is if you're in the middle of an intersection and it's ambiguous where your destination lane is.

-Tesla owner

I remember the exact opposite of the McDonalds touch screen ordering systems.

When they first came out, everything was snappy because it wasn't loading recommendations or additional tracking. There were a lot fewer customization options.

Now, you click on something, and you wait a while, and then it asks you what you want to change and if you want to add these other suggested items. When you want to check out, it lags and then pops up another dialog asking if you want to add more items to your order.

The police do something similar when a mayoral candidate promises to rein in police spending, it's called the blue flu and it's basically a strike.

I find it odd that the people with the kind of mindset that is driven to become police are even willing to entertain the idea of joining a union.

Well theirs is good, of course, because it protects them from soft-on-crime liberals who want open borders and communism and want to keep them from doing their jobs with ridiculous "ethical standards" and "laws governing acceptable use of force" and "civil rights" and other stupid pro-criminal shit like that.

New York already has some of the lowest energy usages in the US. Austerity will only get you so far, and is politically unpopular.

Organizations don't work well when their budget can change dramatically from one year to the next. There's no ability to take on long-term plans when another, popular department takes 50% of your budget, or someone in your PR department makes a gaffe. Long-term employees get laid off and won't return in a few years when your budget goes back up.

Off on a bit of a tangent, I 100% agree with you, and that was probably the best feature of California's Prop 13 from 1978. After it passed, the projected income to Sacramento was rock-solid for decades. California doesn't have an income problem; it has a spending problem.

Still, I would welcome the opportunity to let Sacramento know that, in my opinion, they spend too much on education and welfare and not enough on infrastructure.

Could have the slider pull the budget in that direction over the course of 5-10 years, instead of having it reflected immediately in the next year.

It also doesn't help that for school backpacks, the buyer and the user are different people. There is less incentive to take care of stuff, and when it breaks, parents are more likely to blame a bad backpack than to blame their children.

One silver lining is that backpack industry doesn't have a huge moat. New companies can get started relatively easily as the older ones sell out and decay.

The bags I bought 15 years ago were made locally in San Francisco - Timbuk2 and Chrome - and had a reputation for quality. Now both brands are mainly produced overseas, but have been replaced by two other local brands with ties to the originals - Rickshaw and Mission Workshop.