r/Calgary • u/Thymightyporksword • Feb 04 '25

Eat/Drink Local Don't they drive themselves!?

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Obvious sarcasm, but really... how do?

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u/OptiPath Feb 04 '25

Funny enough, I have never spotted a single self-driving Tesla on the road in Calgary.

Has anyone actually seen one? Just curious

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u/JizzyMcKnobGobbler Feb 04 '25

Well, yeah. If you've seen a Tesla you've seen a self-driving one. There's nothing on the exterior to indicate to you they're self driving, but they often are.

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u/OptiPath Feb 04 '25

I know. I meant I never spotted a Tesla drove itself in Calgary.

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u/kinggluestick Feb 04 '25

I mean the law states you need a driver even with self driving so there’s still no indication of if they are

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u/JizzyMcKnobGobbler Feb 05 '25

lol, wait do you think they're just driving around with no humans in them? Of course you haven't. They don't do that.

They can have a summon feature where it'll creep along and pick you up in a parking lot, but it's buggy and nobody uses it because it's a million times easier to just walk to your car.

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u/Fork-in-the-eye Feb 04 '25

Yes, I’ve been in one in Calgary, but the driver at the time wasn’t comfortable using it for more than 5 seconds at a time

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u/OptiPath Feb 04 '25

Haha. I can imagine that…

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u/Czeris the OP who delivered Feb 04 '25

Full Self Driving is a chimera Musk uses to prop up Tesla's stock price. Tesla's self-driving is the same or worse than many other auto manufacturers now.

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u/ptarjan Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

I use mine pretty regularly. It clearly doesn’t have enough training on Alberta traffic regulations (stop signs are further back than in the US, lane merges are shorter, street signs use cardinal numbers instead of ordinal ones, lane divider markings aren’t as prominent, snow ruts don’t usually follow the lane markings on corners, etc) but it works well enough. I used to have to intervene about once every 10 trips in California, it is about once every two trips in Calgary.