And every single penny of it is going to pay off the billions that they invested in creating the truck. Heck, the numbers that you are suggested won't even pay for the production lines.
I'll buy you a beer or two for the opportunity to check out your CT when it lands in Connecticut!I guess shoot first and ask questions later lol.
I agree with everything you are all saying. Day 2 reservation. I still have $1,000 at Rivian and they’ve been bugging me to configure that.
For context, I will use the truck as lifestyle vehicle. Daily driver, deer hunting, hauling my E bike and quad (rip cyberquad), occasionally my 14ft aluminum fishing boat.
I am still going to test drive Rivian in NY and go next door to look from a far at the cybertruck in the showroom. Now they both have $1grand of mine and only one is refundable at this point.
Which means 2-10 years in real time. IOW, it may be a while before we see much discount on the price.
You have a legit concern. It is not like it is a perfect thing, you do require some blind faith to go into it. I have tested it is different situations and sometimes, it amazes you, while in certain situations, you have no clue what happened. I'll give you an example: I have let FSD make turning decisions where it has gone from the rightmost lane on a 3 lane road to making a left turn in good amount of traffic flawlessly, but at other times, it has abruptly slowed down for no reason on a straight road for light to no traffic. But there have been improvements w with every new release.
My model Y slams on the brakes at the same spot on a highway I use to get to work. Both of our Model Y's do it. It has almost caused rear-end accidents numerous times until I got used to it and realized what was going on. Now I click off autopilot before I get there or I over-ride with the accelerator. It seems kind of crazy to me because with all the data Tesla has, shouldn't they notice that every Tesla slams on its brakes at the exact same spot every time it goes past? And it does it in the opposite direction as well in the exact same spot. How could this not cause some sort of flag in the AI software? Silly and dangerous.
I'm a bit of an optimist when it comes to technology. But that said, we had a similar issue a while back when FSD was not widely released. On a rote that we regularly take, it would be going fine at the speed limit and all of a sudden you hear the slamming of the brakes with a loud alarm of a front collision --- there was nothing there on the road, but happened every time. We were doing the same thing you mentioned, turning it off around that spot. But with the new release of FSD, that is gone. Plus, the new FSD has this good feature to report your concern as to what happened that made you cancel the autopilot. I always provide a feedback no matter how silly. Hopefully, it gives them some data/examples of where the software needs improvement.
The opposite for me. I started out in love with it but got more and more annoyed as time past and now I don't have the patience. EAP isn't bad if you turn off traffic light detection and don't mind being the slowest car on the road (off freeway) but your impression of FSD is spot on. You have to be hyper-alert all the time because it frequently tries to cause an accident. 3-4 times on the 10 mile urban/city portion of my commute (it works pretty well on the freeway). This is very frustrating to me because Tesla could *easily* fix this (just add lane change confirmation). If they did that it would actually be pretty sweet - even if not true FSD.
you're forgetting that FSD will actually make you money, and that your car will not depreciate but in fact be an appreciating asset
I actually enjoy FSD. I like to see how it improves with my daily drives and I'll test it out in the city once in a while.
