Economist Tabarrok: 95% of My Tesla Miles Are FSD, It's Redefining Car Ownership
pduan · x · 2026-11-04
Economist Alex Tabarrok reviews owning a self-driving Tesla: 95% of his first 2,000 miles were on FSD, which he calls 'buying a car + driver for the same price.' He details how the 8-camera bird's-eye neural net predicts every agent's trajectory like an LLM predicts tokens, praises its handling of school buses and traffic cops, and says FSD has improved as much as LLMs since ChatGPT launched.
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