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I like to try and make a post like this every time it moves me. Follow me along on this short story..
I just got off a three day trip with my airline. For those of you that don't know me I am an Airbus Captain for a US east coast airline. I experienced many long delays getting home due to many constraints that really don't matter to this story, but what does matter is I landed in Orlando at 145am, almost 5 hours late. My drive home to Jacksonville is another 2.5 hours.
This late arrival creates a decision point. Both for driving safety, life management for appointments the next day, and general work life balance.
Having FSD on your vehicle changes the math on this decision. Before FSD it would have been an automatic choice to either sleep in the parking lot, or try and find a hotel room to rest until I was ready for the drive home. With FSD the decision matrix changes. Get a cup of coffee, enable FSD, and do the drive.
This is what I did last night, not arriving home until close to 445am. It wasn't scary, it wasn't dangerous, but I would never have done it if FSD didn't have my back.
There were several scenarios on my drive home last night where Semi Trucks were swerving into my lane, and FSD safely avoided any close calls.
I hope people that don't understand this technology can see through the popular rhetoric. This is not only life changing for safety, its also life changing for giving you options. It really feels like I am supervising a train. I just sit there watching it drive. My reaction time in the WOCL (Window of Circadian Low) is definitely lower, but with FSD its not unsafe.
If you don't own a Tesla and your life has a similar use case, you need to think about looking into this technology further, or talking to someone that uses it every day.
If you own a Tesla and don't own or subscribe to FSD for your commutes or longer drives .. you are wasting your investment in the platform that is capable of this level of automation.
It is a game changer.
@Tesla@Tesla_AI
Congrats @DavidMoss on being the first Tesla owner to cross 25,000 miles on the FSD streak counter! That's equivalent to one full lap around Earth, or two years of driving for the average American. Pretty wild.
The confetti celebration also came back after it last appeared for him at the 5,000 mile streak milestone haha.
(video sent to me by David and posted with his permission since he wasn't going to post it)
Lots of news with $TSLA lately:
- Supervised FSD in France tested over 195,000 km without any notable incidents while Tesla sales surged by by 86% in the last month!
- Tesla sales in Denmark surged by 52% last month!
- Tesla expands insurance into Tennessee
- The latest FSD V14.3.7 is reported to be the greatest release of all time.
- Elon says Optimus will be epic as Giga-Fremont gets ready for mass production by year end.
- $TSLA goes over 13 billion in cumulative miles driven.
- Cybercabs spotted in Nashville Tennessee, San Antonio Texas, Waco Texas, Fremont/Santa Monica/Los angles California, Charlotte NC and many more places!
The fact that you can just get in a @Tesla, input your destination, start FSD with a button on your screen, then have the car literally take you anywhere you need to go all by itself never gets old.
I donโt see myself ever owning another car other than a Tesla for this reason.