Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Rollout with Quinn of

[@Safaid862]

When is linus coming? This was very enjoyable. Quinn is the man.

[@RAGHAV4882]

Aren't you waiting for a Tesla roast! :V

[@Djimusic]

I think your safety score is actually more of the vehicle’s safety score. It’s based more on the environment around the car. Tesla wants to ensure that the car that has the FSD is in a relatively safe environment. That’s why people cutting you off dings “your” safety score as they don’t want to put FSD into that environment until it’s ready. Per Quinn’s example, putting FSD in Kansas is much better than putting it in New York.

[@jarred4005]

my first thought was that it's unfair to people in packed cities. but as you pointed out, that's probably intentional.

[@AdamDuncan]

Came here to say exactly this. It makes more sense how the "safety score" is structured when you think about it assessing not only the driver but also the environment around it.

[@croucht]

I will admit I saw this on Reddit, but I definitely agree with it. The safety score is not all about judging you as a driver. It is about an analysis of you AND your driving environment. Yes, you may HAVE to brake quickly when people cut you off, and you may get FCW if another driver does something dumb. But that is a reflection on your driving conditions, which can increase your accident chance especially if the car is driving itself. And that is what Tesla cares about. They don't want FSD released in difficult conditions first; they would rather have people driving down straight farm roads in Kansas start, then trickle down to more and more complex situations where collision chances are higher. That way they get to add more and more information as time goes on.

[@michaelhodges7127]

Good point. Perhaps they should have called it the “Autonomous driving complexity score” instead to encompass the drivers ability and attentiveness combined with the difficulty of the driving environment that they are typically using the car in.

[@HelloGlamorous]

"and then they'll all be on one floor together 😊" i lost it 😂

[@ishaankhatavkar1283]

I really like watching these podcasts as i get to learn something new every week and it is fascinating that tech is so diverse.

[@mikebutkus]

Come on KZbin...why am I getting the notification 1 week later.... Great interview!

[@kiister8126]

Instead of astro going into a compartment in your fridge to get a drink maybe Amazon or third parties could design a mini-fridge around astro that would allow it to get drinks without human intervention. That sounds like a more reasonable thing to me.

[@samdcbu]

A company should just build a microfridge with an electric drivetrain (that could roll over dividers) and huge battery that could drive itself over to your couch and sit their unplugged for hours keeping your drinks cool. And they could add support so that you can summon it using Alexa. This is one of the problems where I want the specialized robot to do it really well.

[@kiister8126]

@@samdcbu well as much as I think this is not a bad ideia, the fridge wouldn’t be able to do all the other things that Astro (supposedly) does, like patrolling around at night or streaming live footage of your house to your phone when you’re out. So making a robot with potencial to have peripherals made for it in order to increase it’s functionality might be the way go with household bots.

[@KennyFlagg]

Or....hear me out... humanoid 🤖 😂

[@kiister8126]

@@KennyFlagg Well yeah I don’t have nothing against humanoid robots but I just don’t think they’re gonna be around anytime soon, doesn’t matter what Elon says about the Teslabot. It’s just that we don’t have anything remotely close to that yet so I’ll believe it when I see it.

[@sethhowell2278]

love this show, but damn its nice to see Quinn in here! get more snazzy more often!

[@Target135]

That was an EXTREMELY fun video to watch. He was really cool! Gonna check out his channel. Liked this week much better than the space race video last week

[@cicciogattaccio]

This episode is about Andrew asking for a payrise "I really like the Rivian but I can't afford it" *wink wink*

[@Manganellia1]

I am very happy with my current salary! I just don't prioritize my car as one of the places I like to splurge! As cool as I think it is, we just bought a house and are hoping to start a family soon so I'd rather have a lower car payment. The R1T does look SICK though.

[@cicciogattaccio]

@@Manganellia1 I couldn't resist the joke :) That said, I completely agree with your priorities and wish you (and the team) all the best

[@mydutube]

Safety score is not the judgment on the driver. It’s an assessment of car’s overall safety, driver is just one aspect of it. Your local area driving patterns, weather conditions, road conditions etc also contribute to how safe your car is. Tesla is concerned about the probability of accidents and safe driving is just one part of the equation.

[@johnpoldo8817]

Well said !

[@toptiertech7291]

No not really. It tells you what the 5 scoring factors. Its measuring how safe you drive. The speeds of your turn, hard breaking and stuff like that. Autopilot does not affect your score

[@johnpoldo8817]

@@toptiertech7291 I think OP is saying there are factors outside the driver’s control that reduce the score and unfairly rate the driver. Some of these include a kid running into the street or deer darting out of woods which requires hard breaking. Another is getting cut-off on the highway triggering unsafe following. Surely, there are many more.

[@mydutube]

​@@toptiertech7291 Where did I say autopilot affects your score? Nowhere. My point is Tesla cares about probability of accidents for the car not the driver, because car insurance (or liability) follows the car, not the driver. Check the safety score web page on Tesla website. Second to last answer in the FAQ clearly mentions that the safety score follows the car not the driver. If you and your partner share a car, the score for the vehicle will be affected by both drivers proportionally. Tesla doesn't track or care about who is the driver. My point was counter to what Quinn and Marques said in the video. They kinda complained about how things like abrupt braking and cut ins can't be avoided but do affect the score. Thats precisely the idea. If your car is operated in environments where cut ins and close distance driving is common than those things have to be factored on the probability of accident of THE CAR.

[@Otterplus]

30:00 Welcome to the world of supervised fleet driving. Every mile is monitored for speed, handling, braking regardless of the conditions that surround that moment. I added a dash cam in the event these metrics are applied negatively towards me or in the case of a collision. My regular driving score floats between 96-98/100. My negative hits are usually speed but anyone that’s driven I-95 knows the speed limit is uh, more like guidelines.

[@Manganellia1]

If you go the speed limit on I-95 you're probably in more danger 😂

[@Target135]

I honestly LOVE my Roborock S4 robot vaccum. I got it 2 years ago for $350 and it is the most perfect little robot. They have newer ones (more pricey) ones that do a decent job mobbing in addition to vaccuming and also have a pricey dock thay makes managing it even easier. It's super smart and has lots of features like no-go zones for areas that get the robot stuck like high carpets or separations in the floor and won't throw itself down stairs, lol. If you could just add a camera to that and the same security features described for the astro like checking on a noise before heading back to its dock, then I'd already be set. Don't need it to do anything else :P

[@iTuber012]

It seems the Amazon folks started with the premise 'Lets make a robot on wheels that would be cool' and worked backwards from there. Hopefully it's usecase is more defined over time

[@SoCalBalloons]

The phenomenon of seeing something everywhere that Marquez was talking about in a minute 44 is when your reticular cortex is turned on toward that thing. Like seeing electric trucks everywhere

[@MatthewAugustine]

Reticular activating system

[@Chops2792]

Three points: 1) The reason why you had to slam on the breaks or follow too close doesn’t matter. You were in a position that was higher risk. The goal is to use the lowest risk people first. Whether it is based on location or driving style it doesn’t matter. 2) It’s still beta and the fastest way to get past the beta to use the safest drivers first, not the loudest who paid first or the most. 3) The cost of FSD wasn’t $10k in 2015. It was cheaper with less features and increased as more features have become accessible.

[@blaccpanther8715]

That third point...its so frustrating that people conveniently ignore that. People who bought FSD for $6000 for instance, are experiencing $4000 worth of added value for free. imagine owning something with $4000 worth of added value for free and thinking you have somehow been short-changed? lol and some people have the audacity to call it a scam.

[@peterliuify]

Astro, get me a beer. Amazon: you have been cut off...

[@DragKoolaid]

That intro is everything

[@jay4759]

The accessibility factor will be driver-less taxis which can basically operate forever. Most people probably won't even own a car.

[@wexken8500]

Wow that’s a good inference of the future which might happen. Great Idea, who knows it might actually happen

[@injeolmi6]

Having Quinn was super nice.

[@abhinavreddygangula4505]

Another one let's goooooo

[@wick_MMA]

Reddy?

[@GamingLegendofthePast]

As far as the safety score, if your in auto pilot it doesn't ding you. They are wanting you to be in AP. Also, because you can game it doesn't mean everyone is. I'm in the mid 90's just being more patient, staying in AP, and taking corners slower.

[@JCintheBCC]

The Safety Score is about both (A) how safe of a driver are you? and (B) how challenging is the environment in which you're driving? You can be a safe driver, but if you're navigating I-95 commute traffic into NYC each day, you'll never have a high safety score. If you live in a rural town with no intersections and straight roads with little traffic, it's super easy to have a high score. Tesla is covering their asses with this Safety Score, too.

[@xsmockjrx]

The typing test at the end was honestly one of my favorite parts.

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Interesting! Nice video ✌️

[@OverlordActual]

My safety score is 98 and I'm over here sweating it. I'm just kinda mad I got a huge ding of unsafe following on a trip which I think is either a bug or city driving doesn't get accounted for correctly. Also Elon and people who blindly believe him SWEAR autopilot doesn't count towards the score when enabled but I question that based on a few trips.

[@mukamuka0]

I wouldn't think much about score unless you want to be first to test it. I'm rather wait a month or two until more people testing it and a lot of bug is hammer out.

[@oxide9717]

Hey congrats 👏

[@drjones694]

I love when people who don't live in TX talk about trucks If you love in TX you get where I'm coming from

[@RCdiy]

I would totally use it to follow me playing a podcast because I can keep the volume at conversation level.

[@prasadt772]

My teacher told me once on how to think about percentiles. If everybody is thinking the test is hard then it actually doesn't matter how much your score is, it only matters how many people are ahead of you. So literally, you can have a negative score and be in the top tier. So basically at the end of the day it's just a queue that you need to be in front line of. It's irrelevant as long as everyone is getting judged on same metrics.

[@AmineKouki]

Do you guys play Parcels in the credits? that's cool!

[@abishop3875]

The alphabet race, is the new 'star in a reasonable priced car'. I see what you did there 👏

[@DeadManDrifting]

Min 13:45 what about knees recognition??

[@JosephHerzog]

Thoughts on Astro: I agree as an able-bodied 20-something that Astro doesn't excite me. However, thinking outside my own box I could see Astro coming in handy for senior citizens. I imagine an older couple (probably doesn't have stairs in their home anyways), Grandpa plopped on the LA-Z-Boy, Grandma knitting in a different room.... I digress. I could see Astro having plenty to do in that household in regards to making their everyday life a little easier, bringing things to each other, reminding them to take their medicine at specific times everyday. Also would be great for video chatting with the grandkids, etc. The caveat here is that the "senior citizen" demographic probably isn't going to have the patience or tech-savvy to unbox and set up an Astro. So yes Astro is dumb for us youngins, but I think it has huge potential for positive impact with other groups of people.

[@andrewmoon3409]

he didn't even look at his keyboard, what a professional

[@nithishpillamari9756]

the dopamine level when it drops is "DOPE"

[@philipptielmann]

putting the screen and speaker on a spot and add the robot arm, you have a cool product that get you stuff from your fridge :-). …. aaaand they just said that on the pod cast :-).

[@muditahlawat]

I think you got the wrong guy. The picture you showed of this Quinn guy doesn't match up with the thumbnail 🤔 The real Quinn is more like an audiophile viking.

[@snazzy]

🙆‍♂️

[@bipulpandey2115]

Quinn is here.It is going to be a hell of a podcast.

[@elck3]

This guy is not biased at all.

[@patrickhughes3629]

Can someone please tell me where to find this intro song? Absolute banger

[@mikegonzales372]

Off topic but would be cool to see a comparison between 60 fps and 120 fps gameplay on PS5 now that you have the new RED camera. Would also be able to peep pixels and see if performance and high fidelity mode have that much of a difference

[@alanaktion]

I see Quinn I click :D

[@martinseal1987]

When did this become the Tesla show?

[@xyzzy4567]

The Amazon robot seems absolutely ridiculous yet I’m happy they are making it. Without having the useless first step, it will take longer to develop and figure out the second iteration which will actually be useful. Sort of like the Tesla Roadster 1-super expensive and terrible battery, yet it was the first step towards the amazing Model 3.

[@AtotheJ13]

I agree with everything you guys said about the fact people paid for FSD years ago and might never have gotten it. It is definitely a "buyer beware" situation. I am not defending Tesla's decision. When I bought, I test drove the car with FSD and decided if it was worth it even if it never got any better. I also took into account that regulation here in Germany may stay stricter than in the US and I may never get the same level of autonomy.

[@waynelewis9110]

People paid for FSD, not FSD Beta. Once FSD actually comes out, they’ll have it. But they’ll have to wait to see if they can get the Beta which does not provide actual FSD.

[@toptiertech7291]

People paid 10k years ago for software that they didn't have the option to buy it later. All these Teslas are capable of doing the FSD so telling people they can't just wait until its fully ready to pay for it is a scam. Then it can't transfer vehicles so if someone totals your Tesla then you have to pay another 10k.

[@AtotheJ13]

I think there’s a lot of confusion here. As far as I remember, you did not buy FSD or FSD beta or whatever. You bought the „potential for full self driving“ and got some promises like „autonomous driving in city streets until the end of 2019“. As MKBHD always says, never buy hardware in the promise of future updates. Since I was satisfied with the capabilities of Auto Pilot in 2019 and thought that no other car company will sell me anything close to it, I opted to pay 6k € back then. Also, i never planned to sell the car after a couple of years but to drive it until it’s dead. In that case, 6k was OK for me. But paying 10k especially on a lease when you may never get what you paid for, is just really shitty. Nowadays I would just do the subscription during the months I travel a lot.

[@davedujour1]

99.999% is known as "5 nines." It is equal to 5 minutes of downtime PER YEAR. 525,595 minutes of perfection out of every 525600 minute of driving.

[@__JiveTurkey]

Will say I love the video version but I never watch it because I always get the audio version first and have already listened to it. To increase retention, maybe releasing both at the same time would work better. I’d love to watch the video version but I can never seem to wait around for it

[@TheExmes]

Something I think about with the ford f 150 is that they average 900,000 sold a year which means in the last two years they’ve sold more of that one vehicle than all types of tesla vehicles ever sold ever.

[@Sekharhimansu]

Watch long way up in apple TV where they used rivian truck earlier build which shows its capabilities...

[@blaccpanther8715]

I will never for the life of me, understand why people complain about the FSD they bought not being feature complete....when the very selling point was that you get to lock in a cheaper price, by buying FSD before it is feature complete. People who bought FSD for $6000 are currently experiencing $4000 worth of added value for free yet yall think Tesla is somehow finessing or misleading the customer. Anyway, excellent show despite my one disagreement with yall at 24:00

[@JizzyNinja]

But you can’t transfer it between vehicles, which kinda blows.

[@Happy_Abe]

The try outs for good driving should be available before purchase

[@lucastorresbrauer2393]

Why isn't this podcast on Spotify??

[@isaacjoseph51]

Did you play on windchill?

[@johnpoldo8817]

I would like to take the Tesla safety test, but doubt it’s possible now because FSD was not purchased. The FSD subscription might make sense for a road trip, but have heard many say AP is good enough, save your money for something else.

[@Mooooooof]

Stay snazzy 😁😁😁

[@Sir.Craze-]

Tesla can absolutely be one of the most innovative and fascinating car companies In our entire history. And at the same time a bit of a joke xD Same goes for Elon. Personally, I'm happy for the entertainment. And if something good comes of it. Neat!

[@imarchit]

I think this is the first time, a guest or from MKBHD Team who has improved his score continuously in the 3 attempts.

[@gkandilakis]

Snazzy is awesome

[@hikaruyoroi]

52:53 Today I learned that I've been mispronouncing Topre wrong this entire time. I thought it was "toe - pray" Also Marques calling a Topre keyboard "membrane" just incurred the wrath of Topre lovers everywhere

[@eseukey20]

That robot was checking Marques out...😄 Besides, AI is king. 😁 To add; being good in software development like another company all depends on the engineers who do the coding...if you need to copy some tactics, then do esp. when it's open source...Just saying...😁

[@JayF92610]

Does Tesla care whether a safety score is determined solely by user input or also takes into account their environment? If Tesla had to choose whether to pick someone from rural Kansas or the same driver in heavily populated NYC, they would choose the person in Kansas because it’s a generally safer place to drive based on their factors.

[@harsimranbansal5355]

Previously they’ve done it by location, along with looking at the driver and how safe they drive, so this should be no different.

[@joetech4507]

Which dbrand skin is that on marques’ MacBook?

[@nicholasfilippousis7774]

i think its the black ICONS from dbrand

[@Justcallmefred2023]

Love to know your thoughts on Tesla insurance using the safety score for insurance rates in the future.

[@akashsarda9689]

Is autonomous driving really safe if there are people actually driving around you

[@meshamanth]

Team crispy members on the podcast please.

[@imrlyunoriginal]

"Ground State" - The place where all Astros come to rest after having fallen down all the staircases in a building

[@Tinjinladakh]

i liked cybertruck, they will updates more specifics in near production

[@hnacs8117]

33:45 because it's beta, it's not perfect

[@vickie_g]

Quinn is the only person is trust with Tesla opinions - he isn't a hater or a fanboy.

[@DrewP11]

I’d have to go with ‘no robot’. We, as humans, need to do things for ourselves, if we are able. Maybe there is a use case if we can’t? Maybe for security? Even that is iffy.

[@krishIyer23]

The Astro trailer looks like an april fools video

[@anmoldalal16]

The point of these devices is to help establish robot etiquette for the future social integration.

[@theicon2125]

A question occurred to me while listening to this. How much more battery is used while using FSD? Making the on-board computer run such intense AI has to use quite a bit of energy. Maybe it's a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the battery but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a tangible drain over the course of a road trip that you wouldn't see when just using autopilot.

[@Matinirx]

oh yeah 👊👍

[@InfinitiveStar]

Astro, seems like one of those Executive classic "big" visionary projects that went down the hill. Executive is not in the team and marketing tries to make stupid use cases for the public.

[@AnemosFPV]

Full self driving 😂😂 yeah like that is going to happen

[@welfiblablabla]

Isn't Rivian backed by Amazon, can't they get some software help there?

[@katiebyers2573]

Just feel compelled to say: No, there is no universe, in NYC or Kansas or anywhere else, where going more than 50 mph and following less than 1 second behind the car in front of you is safe. Stopping distance is a thing, human reaction time is a thing, and no way do they add up to that ever being safe or good idea. (Sorry for sounding huffy - love MKBHD and the podcast and this is nothing personal, but I've known people who have died in a pileup, which easily could have been avoided with greater following distance.)

[@mm8436]

I know a handful of truck drivers and only 1 tows. Most use it for the bed

[@michaelmolock]

a more ideal format should be something close to BB8. quite a bit more durable. maybe the spherical walker that expands into that crab walk.

[@JardTheRat]

Amazon Astro = WALL-E

[@LuqmanWright]

I would LOVE a speaker following me around

[@samdcbu]

Please buy an Astro and post a short of it throwing itself down the stairs

[@nexusyang4832]

Yo!!! Snazzy!!!!!!!!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

backwards seats and projector on the windshield is not optimistic when right now in Phoenix the passenger has no access to the wheel and no one is driving and waymo takes the entire liability.....if tesla takes the entire liability and u don't have to touch anything they can roll it out in some areas already

[@razinlightyear]

The driver score gives me PTSD to when a driver safety box was installed on my work truck. I would drive over a small pothole and the dumb box would saying "aggressive driving". 😤

[@MartinidM]

Astro is the dog from the Jetsons.

[@MrRobix13]

Tesla takes a while to role out the beta: People complain Tesla releases beta: Peope complain Tesla breathes air: People complain

[@Sir.Craze-]

A while. Years and years and years*

[@toptiertech7291]

People are complaining because they are charging people 10k upfront for a feature that they haven't gotten in years. Then they tell people they couldn't just add it on later. Thats why people complain.

[@mukamuka0]

Don't just look at today, tech will keep getting better. So, it's just a question of when Self driving will be standard in all car, not just in Tesla.

[@polewatcher]

Given a choice of the most safe driver of a massive death machine or hurting someone’s feelings….

[@adamdurrani1071]

Wall-E + Eve = Astro

[@welfiblablabla]

Calling the F150 a "smaller truck" is such an american thing to say 😅 Here in Europe we consider the Ford Ranger as quite a big truck 🤣

[@Bagels29]

If the astro could vacuum it would be way way better.

[@ben0_o-]

Comparing a company that just started production and has delivered a few cars to a company that make 800k cars a makes complete sense. Let wait and see what the mass production quality will be. Let me add this before everyone start calling me a "funboy" what ever that means, I am just expressing my opinion.

[@Pandoso01]

LOL i don't think he realizes that toupre is on the nicer more niche sides of the keyboard enthusiast world, he just heard membrane and thought it was cheap crap xD

[@InfinitiveStar]

"The best possible candidates in the best possible cities" about Tesla FSD

[@MrBerru]

Do LINUS!

[@mikegonzales372]

Curious to know Marques, do you think it is ethically ok for Tesla to allow "beta" testing of a "FSD" software feature that other drivers on the road did not consent to?

[@harsimranbansal5355]

Do you think it’s okay for drunk drivers to drive and crash and possibly kill innocent people even though they never consent to it? This is a software that can eradicate all accidents around the world, so seeing the data is more important than the perception of the software. So far all 2000 beta testers using this software for a year didn’t crash, so they clearly know how to roll this out.

[@mikegonzales372]

@@harsimranbansal5355 there are repercussions to driving drunk such as a DUI. No repercussions when using unproven software. Guess you haven’t heard of any incidents where a Tesla on autopilot crashes and kills innocent bystanders. Tesla is currently being sued by a police department for not recognizing the sirens and killing an innocent civilian. Also my question is still valid. Should “beta” software be allowed to be tested on public roads?

[@AlexWeiner]

@@mikegonzales372 I’d say yeah it’s ethical. At least in the way it’s being handled so far. If the beta testing was restricted to private roads, development would be drastically hindered, ultimately delaying the rollout of life-saving software.

[@Tiigerr]

@@mikegonzales372 yes it should, in a controlled and relatively safe way, which is exactly how Tesla is doing it. The only way to reach true autonomy is to test it in real scenarios and feed the neural net with edge cases a simulation wouldn't catch.

[@mikegonzales372]

@@Tiigerr At the expense of other drivers on the road who have not opted into the beta…. Correct?

[@dylan6386]

Amazon Astro, so very much more expensive Robo raptor or Robo Sapien, now with the screen ready to break when he decides to fall on its “face”

[@youtuberpov]

All because in US everyone loves to sue. 🙃