{"id":95071,"date":"2025-10-11T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=95071"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:51:39","slug":"future-built-by-people-you-dont-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/future-built-by-people-you-dont-like\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Future Is Built by People You Don&#8217;t Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tesla-self-driving.jpg\" alt=\"Angry people beside a car\" width=\"1527\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tesla-self-driving.jpg 1527w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tesla-self-driving-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tesla-self-driving-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tesla-self-driving-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1527px) 100vw, 1527px\" \/>I was watching the NRL Grand Final with the lads on Sunday. Cracker of a game. Afterwards, we flicked over to the Singapore Grand Prix. Boring as batshit. So we started talking cars. Out of five of us, three had Teslas &#8211; me included. The other two owners love their cars. Cheap to run, great drive, no servicing. But both said they wouldn&#8217;t buy another. One reason: Elon&#8217;s turned into an arsehole.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That&#8217;s sad, and here&#8217;s why. I got Tesla&#8217;s Supervised Full Self Driving (FSD) three weeks ago. Paid full freight, I&#8217;m no Tesla influencer. I was sceptical until I drove it. SolarQuotes blogger Ronald Brakels summed it up after trying mine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am at IKEA. Alive! Tense at first, but it handled itself. Safe when cut off, calm behind a bus. Weird how quickly you relax.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Full Self Driving Is Nearly Here<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_95081\" style=\"width: 2506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95081\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen showing Tesla's self-driving mode\" width=\"2496\" height=\"1473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1.jpg 2496w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1-1536x906.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tesla-self-drive-screen-1-2048x1209.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2496px) 100vw, 2496px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cheerful rainbow colour scheme representing Tesla&#8217;s self driving mode unfortunately did not make Ronald feel any more relaxed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My experience: it is 99% there. Most drives feel relaxing and safe with zero interventions. Whether Tesla will ever nail the final 1% to make it Non-Supervised Full Self Driving is an open question. But I&#8217;m grateful someone&#8217;s trying.<\/p>\n<p>As a parent and a cyclist, I&#8217;d rather share the road with the current build of FSD than a human. It&#8217;s better than most Adelaide drivers. Not once did it risk a cyclist&#8217;s life to get to a red light 3 seconds early. This thing can save millions of lives.<\/p>\n<h2>Stalled By Emotion<\/h2>\n<p>Yet many people won&#8217;t buy Teslas because of emotion. That&#8217;s Marketing 101: we buy with emotion, not logic. And fewer FSD-capable cars means less safety for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The same emotions stall other parts of electrification. Some won&#8217;t buy panels from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Others won&#8217;t join a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\">Virtual Power Plant (VPP)<\/a> because they hate big energy. And yes, SolarQuotes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solarquotes-origin\/\">is now owned by Origin<\/a>, one of those &#8220;big energy&#8221; players. But Origin isn&#8217;t the only VPP in town. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/vpp-comparison\/\">There are plenty of others.<\/a> The point isn&#8217;t whose logo is on the app. The point is that the spare capacity of giant home batteries sitting idle helps no one.<\/p>\n<p>With average home batteries post-rebate now over 20 kWh, that&#8217;s a mountain of wasted capacity. A wasted chance to cut carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution will happen. The tech is too good. But it&#8217;ll drag, slowed by the messiness of humans. We&#8217;ll still end up with safer roads and a cleaner grid just later and bloodier than it had to be.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phase Shift is a weekly opinion column by SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock. Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/weekly-newsletter.html\">SolarQuotes\u2019 free newsletter<\/a> to get it emailed to your inbox each week along with our other home electrification coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Comments have now closed on this piece.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the NRL Grand Final with the lads on Sunday. Cracker of a game. Afterwards, we flicked over to the Singapore Grand Prix. Boring as batshit. So we started talking cars. Out of five of us, three had Teslas &#8211; me included. The other two owners love their cars. 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