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@tesla_na Full twitter thread on my 3k mile trip using 12.3.3.

https://t.co/sxqg1AWmRX

[Status Kuo @kuoman]

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

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Happy to chat with folks about it more if anyone cares to reach out.

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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

[Status Kuo @kuoman]

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

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Tri-Cities to Seattle: FSD worked well here. Reading signs, no wheel swerves.

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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).

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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.

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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. 👍 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Improvements cont:
No lane changes for traffic flow, but will navigation
Pothole detection/avoidance (ya...a hard one)

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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

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UX continued:
Getting stuck 5-15 mph under set speed for no reason
WY charging infrastructure is lacking

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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)

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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

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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 – did surprisingly well on interstates, offramps, & even twisty backroads! #TeslaAutopilot