But mostly in an opportunity-cost sort of way.
From his platform, Slope of Hope, December 27:
The Self-Driving Experience
I first wrote about Tesla – – – a car very few people had heard of at the time – in March of 2013 here on Slope. The post was simply an examination of my experience of buying my Tesla Model S and my impressions of it (which were extremely positive). I’ll just mention that the $90,000 I put into the car would be worth $9,000,000 today if I had simply bought TSLA at the time instead, but, umm, let’s not go there. Suffice it to say that my gushing, glowing over-the-top review of Tesla was spot-on, and that the company has been insanely successful.
Thus, being such an early adopter, it’s rather odd that only now would I be getting into the whole full self-driving thing, but I have an excuse. My car was incapable of it. The hardware was too old.
That all changed Christmas Eve. We picked up our second Tesla (and ditched our Lexus), a brand new dual motor Model Y with the Full Self Driving feature. Unlike my super-long review mentioned above, I just wanted to say a few words about my impressions of FSD, since I’ve logged, gosh, about 15 miles of it under my belt so far.
In a nutshell, it feels kind of janky. You can definitely sense the decision-making going on, and it is “chunked” in such a way that a human doesn’t really drive. I have had to intervene a number of times, because I didn’t feel safe, even though it probably would have been fine. But I’m not into “probably” when it comes to being in a moving car.
A few oddities I’ve encountered so far in my very, very brief experience:....****....I will hasten to make an important distinction. The public FSD is version number 11. The one whose foundation my beloved boy created is 12, and it’s fundamentally and utterly different. I haven’t driven it, nor can I, but when it comes out, I look forward to feeling just how different it is and writing my reflections on it when that time comes.....
....MORE, including the oddities.
December 28
Arms Race
Up, up, and away! Arm Holdings is growing to the sky! Why not, eh? It’s not like they have ever made a penny of profit or anything.
And:
