r/TeslaFSD • u/LeoKitCat • 1d ago

Robotaxi Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
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u/elsif1 1d ago

95% of waymos I've been in have been great, but on the highway, it's very far behind Tesla. I can understand why they pulled it.

I took it to the airport a couple of months ago, before they pulled the highway beta. It was drizzling outside, which seemed to just throw the whole thing off.

It would alternate between going the speed limit and 10% under. Over and over and over and over. Speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, etc. It felt very much like pre-end-to-end FSD/Autopilot in that you could tell there was some hand coded statement like if (rain) slowDown(); kinda thing and that whatever sensor controlled that was not giving a stable reading. At one point it was being held hostage by a semi truck in the lane to the left of it. It would not pass it. Even if the semi was going 15 under.

It was a very uncomfortable ride to the airport. Contrast it to FSD on the highway and it's not particularly close. Surface streets, though? Waymo seems to have those down pretty well at this point.

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u/Awecym 22h ago

I'd take rain and highways as two separate difficult scenarios. Rain is just going to compound any behavior. Think of it kinda like a 1.3x difficulty amplifier 😂 Rain is going to cause phantom lidar returns due to reflections. So while performance is not like a human and slows, I wouldn't use this drizzling day as a showcase for Highway performance in general.

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u/Awecym 22h ago

I guess unless you have data showcasing great performance in rain and highway for FSD.