Tesla is in negotiations to license FSD with several major legacy automakers. So the reality is that, over the next 5-10 years - almost every automaker will start using FSD - because no one else is remotely close to autonomous driving. This will go the same way NACS/SC access went - Ford signed first - then all the other dominos fell - and almost every other legacy automaker, as well as EV only automakers like Lucid and Rivian, have switched or are switching to NACS connectors - and can now use the Tesla SC network. FSD will go down this same route. Once autonomous driving comes to market starting later this year and on into 2026 - any automaker who doesn't go down this path - will be dead. Game over, dead man walking. Just a matter of how long they can survive at that point. This is a sea change - much like going from horses to cars - when the FSD tech can drive 20 times safer than any human - it'll become mandatory eventually - humans will no longer drive. Yes, I realize this sounds like pie in the sky - but it's closer than almost anyone realizes, and once it goes mainstream - game over.
For example, every Tesla drives itself off the factory floor after being assembled - no human in the vehicle - as soon as its "born" it self-drives to the parking lot for shipping to sales centers. This is happening every day, all day, today:
I want on demand FSD - I've wanted it for like 15 years. I'm on board with that, just not forced cause I want to be able to drive off road too. I don't want artificial invisible "walls" like in video games.
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It's not a matter of everyone thinks. For any SDV - in order to make everything OTA software upgradable - this is the best approach.
I'd like to see working computer remote upgradable be reliable before I'm worrying about if my car is going to no longer have the wipers work this week cause of a bug and it'll be fixed in some future update.
Everything, and I mean everything, is voice controlled
This is horrible. No really. I don't want it relying on my talking. Because many times people are sleeping in the car while someone is driving, and I don't want to wake them up talking at the car. I just want to dial the heat or turn on the defogger. When I'm driving, I don't want to go into the talk to it brainspace - it takes longer and more cognitive load than just turning a dial. I've tried with my Subarus, and with the Honda too. It's not great. Oh, and the more other noise, like music, like the defogger running, whatever the less the car understands me at all. Maybe Tesla has this solved, but the best Honda does is turn down the music and environmental controls to try and better hear you - which again is now changing more things to disturb passengers. I'm not sure how much of an edge case this is - driving with others trying to sleep, but it's making things that used to be easy hard.
Now, FSD if working will let me muck about with the screen, but it still doesn't really instill confidence in having one very large expensive screen that if it dies the car dies. I'm already ranting at Honda about electronic nannies that I like the
idea of but they just
false positive way too much and so cause me issues. I just had to back my Piliot up to my door, run an extension cord and use a hair dryer to melt the ice around the hatch to get it to
let me close the hatch at 7PM in the cold. The hatch physically closed just fine, but the car disagreed and would re-open it, or after we pushed it closed manually would refuse to latch the hatch and would keep the lights on and beep all the time when moving. I want an easy "do what I tell you" override TBH.
You can also configure "buttons" on the screen as needed, or you can purchase third party physical buttons - often called the S3XY buttons - that are fully configurable and can do whatever you want them to do.
Great, I need to buy a third party product to hopefully get functionality that ought to be built in. Not a sales pitch. I've been here with computing, yes you can plug in a third party box but guess what, now you never know if it's going to work, if it's going to keep working, and it won't be covered by warranty when a software update breaks your extra stuff.
You can also configure the buttons/scroll wheels on the steering wheel to do whatever you want them to do for often used features - want a scroll wheel to move the temp up or down? Change it to do so, want that scroll wheel to control wipers? Change it to do so. It's all configurable however the owner wants based upon their personal preferences.
Oh god. So now it'll be even more config when you get in a new car, or more likely, randomly not knowing how to work the darn thing. Tesla already did the insane steering wheel buttons for turn signals. NO THANK YOU.
I'm sorry but it sounds like we're still firmly in the USB-C dock stage of all this (or Win95 plug and pray). I want the UI to stay the same till the actual operation changes. When it's legal to FSD everywhere and it works reliably on all the roads out in the country and highways so I don't have to drive or take on liability for something the car does without my input, then I'm OK with getting a living room and no controls. These transition ideas all suck. It's just endless frustration to the user who presumably already know how to drive - making them less safe drivers waiting for them to be allowed by regulations to not drive, but the UI assumes they're not driving, except it's technically illegial.
