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InsomniacL ◴[] No.41895040[source]
As I come over the top of a crest, there was suddenly a lot of sun glare and the my Model Y violently swerved to the left, fortunately I had just overtaken a car on a two lane, dual carriageway and hadn't moved back to the left hand lane yet.

The driver I had just overtaken, although he wasn't very close anymore slowed right down to get away from me and I didn't blame him.

That manoeuvre in another car likely would have put it on two wheels.

They say FSD crashes less often than a human per mile driven, but I can only use FSD on roads like motorways, so I don't think it's a fair comparison.

I don't trust FSD, I still use it occasionally but never in less than ideal conditions. Typically when doing something like changing the music on a motorway.

It probably is safer than just me driving alone, when it's in good conditions on a straight road with light traffic with an alert driver.

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iknowstuff ◴[] No.41899469[source]
what do you mean you can only use fsd on motorways? Just by phrasing I assume you’re referring to the old FSD which is just beefed up autopilot based on heuristics - europe is stuck on a gimped 5 year old autopilot stack due to overzealous regulation.

American FSD is a completely different beast, usable on every road and street, so your anecdote is actually not relevant to the thread

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1. InsomniacL ◴[] No.41903770[source]
> Just by phrasing I assume you’re referring to the old FSD

I find it very confusing with the multiple versions of FSD, Auto-pilot, enhanced Auto-Pilot, supervised etc, but yeah I'm in Europe.

I got the car new from Tesla last year.

I understood there are vastly more features in the American locale but I assumed the 'keep lane' ability to be on-par and given the hardware is the same, sun-glare performance.