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I don't know how Tesla ever presumes to achieve FSD when they cannot detect stopped objects in the road, especially emergency vehicles. This is incredibly disappointing.

Does anyone know if the FSD Beta has this ability?

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All these crashes happened with the radar-controlled auto pilot. A radar system basically cannot detect static obstactles, as it doesn't have the spacial resolution to distinguish an obstacle in your lane from something right beside or above it (bridges). They can only use the radar to follow other cars, because these are not stationary objects.

Recently, Tesla switched from radar-based to pure optical obstacle recognition. This should vastly improve this kind of behavior. Ironically that the investigation starts at a moment when they basically got rid of the old system.

Look on youtube for videos of the FSD beta. It is amazingly good at recognizing the surroundings of a car, including parked vehicles at the road side.

> cannot detect stopped objects in the road,

Neither can Volvo or VW.

Actually my 2015 Ap1.5 Model S does detect stopped vehicles, unfortunately not reliably.

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