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The only edge Tesla has is the software stack. All the rest is meh. But it is kind of amazing that traditional carmakers are still struggling to catch up on the software front. To be honest, the whole auto industry is heading in a very bad direction, where they think of the car as a way to harvest data of their customers and to introduce their SaaS offerings
We've got an Tesla and an Volkswagen ID3. Tesla's charging planning is pretty good. Volkswagen's driving assistants are vastly superior to Tesla's (despite not being oversold as "autonomous driving").
IIRC, the first robotaxis are operated by companies owned by Google and General Motors, and the only car that has a licence for fully autonomous driving in Germany (up to 60 km/h, only on Autobahn) is a Mercedes.
No, Tesla's autonomous driving is not cutting edge.
Huh, how does that go together? Aren't you supposed to go at least 80 or something on an autobahn?
Minimum speed for vehicles to be allowed on the autobahn is 60. This is an autonomous traffic jam assistant – you can sleep during traffic jams now.
AFAIK it's intended for stop and go traffic jam situations, also Autobahn is at least 60km/h.
Your vehicle needs to be capable of 60km/h to legally drive on the Autobahn, if you don't want everyone to hate you 80km/h as that's the speed limit for trucks.
The Mercedes thing is a traffic jam assistant, if you don't take over when traffic speeds up again it's going to pull over or something.