Lately, social media is the de facto manner for purchasers to provide direct suggestions to firms. The easiest way to get a response is to air your grievances in a public discussion board. Or for purchasers who’ve had a constructive expertise, your submit might get a wider attain if the corporate’s social media workforce retweets your glowing overview.
So with Elon Musk being the CEO of Tesla, there isn’t a greater place to register a grievance than on the Musk-owned social media platform X. Self-described “$TSLA nerd” Gali tweeted at Tesla and Musk to request further choices for Full Self-Driving (FSD) customers.
In his private opinion, the present implementation of FSD is just too aggressive, with speedy acceleration, sudden lane adjustments and jerky turns. Whereas he doesn’t essentially imagine the automotive is driving in an unsafe method, it’s too aggressive for his private style even within the least aggressive drive mode. So he asks {that a} new “Turtle” mode be applied for cautious drivers like himself.
The present iteration of FSD has three driving profiles: Chill, Common and Assertive. In idea, these ought to characterize a broad spectrum of driving kinds. However Gali feels that Chill is just not almost chill sufficient for him to really feel snug.
A number of X customers have commented on his tweet in settlement, saying there isn’t a lot distinction between Chill and Assertive. Many say the Chill mode’s driving type is inconsistent. Someday it’s a relaxed and even overly cautious driver. The following day it’s aggressively accelerating, darting between lanes on busy metropolis streets.
Not each consumer shares this opinion after all. Many need the automotive to be extra aggressive. Some customers ridiculed the very thought of something slower or much less aggressive by calling it “Grandma mode” or “everybody else is honking since you’re in the best way” mode.
Elon Musk appears to fall into the latter camp. In his response to Gali’s authentic tweet, he didn’t acknowledge the request for a slower mode in any respect. As a substitute, he appears to have introduced a brand new mode known as Hurry.
Despite the fact that Gali didn’t get the reply he wished, he saluted Elon for his response and dedicated to sit back mode.
It’s unclear what precisely the distinction can be between the present Assertive mode and a possible Hurry mode. It’s attainable that that is only a rebranding of probably the most aggressive driving mode. Musk has a historical past of fixing humdrum product names into ones he finds extra amusing. Simply have a look at his current plans to rebrand Sensible Summon (SS) as Really Sensible Summon (ASS).
We’ll simply need to see if something really comes of this new FSD profile. When you’ve got entry to the present iteration of FSD, what are your ideas on the present drive modes? When you could personally need one thing extra aggressive, do you suppose there’s room for an much more cautious driver profile? Tell us within the feedback beneath.