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Rivian To Challenge Tesla FSD Later This Year, CEO Thinks

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I’ve been writing a bit lately on why robotaxis are not going to be as disruptive as many people expect. (See here and here and here.) A big core of the critique is the expectation that personal vehicles will have self-driving tech in them, and people would still rather have … [continued]

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Elon Musk’s Missed Full Self-Driving Targets Are Even Wilder Than I Remembered

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There’s been a little debate going on lately about whether Tesla Full Self-Driving is “effectively” Level 4 autonomous driving or is still just a Level 2 driver-assist system. Yesterday, I shared a comment from a reader explaining that it’s actually Level 2++ now. I’ll come back to that in a … [continued]

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Tesla’s Level 2++ Supervised Full Self-Driving Approved In Belgium

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Tesla has gotten “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” approved in another European country. Following the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, and Denmark, the driver-assist system is now allowed to be deployed in Belgium. Well, Tesla still has to pass some tests with it, and then it can be rolled out to customers, but … [continued]

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Waymo Premier — Ah, This Is Where The Company’s Headed!

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Waymo has long been considered the US leader in self-driving vehicles, and parent Google before it when Waymo wasn’t yet a brand. Well, I guess there are many people who have considered Tesla the leader for the past several years, but that is based on the assumption that Tesla’s approach … [continued]

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Wall Street Analyst Claims Tesla Has Achieved “Level 4” Self-Driving

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There’s no doubt about it — Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD), still “Supervised,” is much better today than it was a year or two ago. It has gotten much better over time, even if it did take several years longer than Elon Musk expected. But whether it is now “Level … [continued]

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