{"id":116247,"date":"2020-11-23T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tesla-fsd-betas-las-vegas-inner-city-test-suggests-that-autonomy-is-closer-than-we-think"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:22:33","slug":"tesla-fsd-betas-las-vegas-inner-city-test-suggests-that-autonomy-is-closer-than-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tesla-fsd-betas-las-vegas-inner-city-test-suggests-that-autonomy-is-closer-than-we-think","title":{"rendered":"Tesla FSD beta\u2019s Las Vegas inner-city test suggests that autonomy is closer than we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-fsd-betas-las-vegas-inner-city-test-suggests-that-autonomy-is-closer-than-we-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty easy to dismiss the capabilities of Tesla\u2019s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving beta. A look at Autopilot\u2019s ranking from Consumer Reports alone would suggest that Tesla\u2019s driver-assist system is pretty average at best, and that solutions like GM\u2019s Super Cruise are far more advanced and capable.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, the narrative surrounding Tesla\u2019s self-driving efforts largely suggests that the company\u2019s driver-assist systems, while advanced, are years away from being a capable autonomous driving solution. And when Tesla achieves autonomy, actual FSD companies like Waymo and Cruise would be far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>These preconceptions about Autopilot and the Full Self-Driving suite, however, are a bit questionable, especially if one were to consider the capabilities of the FSD beta today, which is currently being tested by a select group of Tesla owners. Tesla owner and YouTube host Dan Markham of the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXgoURISTjifYA7CG55xpkA\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Inside? Family<\/a><\/em> channel recently experienced this, when he took a drive on a Model S equipped with the FSD beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pretty easy to dismiss the capabilities of Tesla\u2019s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving beta. A look at Autopilot\u2019s ranking from Consumer Reports alone would suggest that Tesla\u2019s driver-assist system is pretty average at best, and that solutions like GM\u2019s Super Cruise are far more advanced and capable. With this in mind, the narrative surrounding Tesla\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}