FSD will continue to be a joke outside of the Bay Area pretty much indefinitely, at least for camera-only Tesla, for a really simple reason that’s obvious to anyone who has driven in a snowy metro: Salt spray.

Five minutes on the road and those cameras will be 100% coated. It doesn’t matter how much neural net training you do even on no-lane snowy roads or getting the car to know how to adapt to conditions, if the cameras can’t see anything it’s over.

Every time there’s some breathless article about upcoming cars that don’t even have a steering wheel I just laugh because they’re only ever going to sell or even work in SF.