TECH - 'Oh My Word:' Tesla FSD Wows Boris Johnson As It Drives His Family Around 'Hair-Raising' LA Roads; Ex-UK Leader Reveals New Feature In Works | Benzinga
Tesla, Inc’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Full Self-Driving technology, which the electric vehicle maker promotes as FSD (Supervised), has gained a raving fan from across the Atlantic. Following a ride in a Tesla vehicle equipped with the technology in Los Angeles, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was visibly impressed.
What Happened: Johnson had a first-hand experience with Tesla’s FSD on Friday when he drove around LA streets in a self-driving car, along with his wife and 10-month-old baby, the former head of the U.K. government said in his Daily Mail column. He acknowledged that this was something unheard of or incredulous some 10 years back.
“We are about to be conveyed in a new type of car, so preposterous, so audacious, so revolutionary that ten years ago I would have refused to believe that it was possible. Maybe on some test track; maybe in lab conditions – but I never expected to see it in the heavy traffic of a major urban centre,” he said.
Johnson noted that the car had dozens of tiny cameras, concealed in the car’s sleek white bodywork and a neural system, which he called an “electronic brain.”
Quite astonished at the “phantom” driving, Johnson said, “I am sitting at the wheel, but not touching it, and though my feet are near the pedals, I am not using them – and oh my word, the steering wheel is twiddling itself.”
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