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RE: My First Cross-Country Drive in a Tesla (Part 1)
The 'supervising the car as it drove itself' line captures the current state of FSD perfectly. The tech is good enough that you feel like a passenger, but the liability model still treats you as the driver. That tension is the core unresolved question for autonomous driving at scale.
1600 miles in a Model Y is a real test of the charging infrastructure. How was the Supercharger availability and reliability across the route? The gap between Supercharger uptime perception vs reality is one of those data points that matters for the EV adoption thesis.
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Yes, FSD is to the point it feels sentient. It's pretty crazy. It even reacts to hand signals if there are flagmen in construction zones. It's not perfect though. I'm going to explain some of the mistakes it made on during our drive in the next few posts. Some of them were concerning.
There are no worries at all about Tesla's charging infrastructure. Their uptime is around 99.9%, overall. There are Superchargers scattered everywhere throughout North America as well. Although we never had to wait to charge I see congestion becoming a problem in the future as more people buy EVs. That is unless the local/state/federal government find a way to tax EVs so much that it scares people away.