Just finished a 3k-mile road trip with Tesla's new FSD update. It's been disabled due to frustration since 2019.
Short version: It's an improvement, but major flaws remain I might keep it enabled.
As a software dev, I have some UX feedback for @Tesla's FSD team. #FSD#Tesla
Just finished a 3k-mile road trip with Tesla's new FSD update. It's been disabled due to frustration since 2019.
Short version: It's an improvement, but major flaws remain I might keep it enabled.
As a software dev, I have some UX feedback for @Tesla's FSD team. #FSD#Tesla
In retrospect I think it was something about the road signs and lines in WY that FSD didn't like for reading speed limits. I was cleaning all cameras at every charge break.
I will probably at least keep FSD enabled until it frustrates me too much
#FSD#Tesla#TeslaAutopilot
SLC-Tri Cities
The camera came back to reading speed limit signs (although the Speed Limit 70|Speed Limit 60 for trucks signs confuse it, as do variable speed limit and construction speed limit signs).
Salt Lake City to Tri-Cities: nothing new or exceptional to report. FSD worked well enough. Only one instance that I remember of wheel swerve. I couple phantom breaking/slowing.
Denver to SLC
I'm tired of having blinker wars with my car. At times traffic just requires staying in your lane behind a car. π FSD navigating me on/off the highway/interstate. Adjusting my speed is awesome. Let me make the decision of what lane I'm in and when to change.
Denver-SLC
The FSD also started to choose turn lanes (both left and right turning) instead of the through lanes on this day too. This happened on single and multi-lane roads.was really odd, because Enhanced Self Drive for that is normally pretty good these days.
Denver-SLC
Speed limit would pick some random speed between 45-80 (always mod 5 and lower than the actual Limit). I resorted to using Waze to know what the actual speed limit was. There were two minor decelerate/swerve instances in that stretch too.
Denver to Salt Lake City: it felt like the FSD was tired of driving and just doing its own thing. The speed limit sign reader just decided to stop working completely. Even with clean cameras and a soft reset.
Billings-Denver cont
Most times it came with a deceleration of varying strength, but sometimes not. There were two stretches on I-25 where we had to drive under the speed limit to reach the next charging stations.
Billings to Denver: is where problems started to occur. Many times (6 times in 1 day) the FSD in the right most lane would do an attempted swerve to the right. 5 times I caught it before any wheels left the lane, once the passenger wheels left the lane.
Seattle to Billings: it was very good. Rain through the Cascades. Eastern WA was clear. Lookout Pass had bare/wet with snow flurries. Got into the habit of cleaning cameras every stop. Montana had mixed snow flurries but roads bare. Had the one phantom warning/disconnect here.
Loved it for sunset driving & wide-open interstates (keep your hands on the wheel!). Improvements I'd LOVE to see:
Remember settings (wipers, lane changes, high beams)
Show chargers on map all the time
Manual lane change option
Mileage vs. speed graph
Route Altitude graph
Major UX gripes:
Won't go back to right lane
Auto wipers always on
Resets lane change setting
Terrible at 4-way stops
Doesn't handle blinking yellow turns
Horrible in heavy traffic
Blinker wars (car vs. driver)
Phantom speed drops
Missing speed limit info (in WY)
The real test was my Lynnwood, WA to Colorado Springs and back road trip. Here's the breakdown of issues I experienced (about half were reported):
Phantom braking (>15mph) - 6x
Strong swerve out of lane - 2x
Picking exit vs. through lane - 8x
Random disconnect alert - 1x
I used Enhanced AutoPilot for years due to FSD frustrations. This non-beta update had me cautiously optimistic. Tested it on a 6 AM Lynnwood, WA to Fire Mountain Scout Camp run β did surprisingly well on interstates, offramps, & even twisty backroads! #TeslaAutopilot