Yah, my beefs too. Especially the jump to warp speed on takeoff. What the heck is with that anyway? I've even gotten chirps on intersection turns with normal folks looking around at me, grey haired Grampa dreaming back in my GTO days. Sheesh!
My right (passenger) side repeater just stopped working today on 2019 M3P, and I remember you doing this a few years ago, so here I am just checking it out again for reference. Also curious if anyone knows if a 2021+ repeater will work on a 2019. Guess I can try and cross reference part numbers.
What I want (you covered some) - Know the speed limit better (don't think that route number signs are speed limit signs) - Make better right hand turns (half the time I grab the wheel to take it wider) - Don't over accelerate and over brake (be better at efficient driving) - General smoothness of driving improvement - Better navigation data - Miss pot holes, slow down for speed bumps more consistently
My experience is that on city streets, it just won't do the speed limit, much less what I set over the limit, and I'm talking about times when traffic is light and the road is straight. It just pokes along(I'm set on aggressive). This is a problem when for example, the speed limit is 45 and it wants to go 41 or whatever. Other cars are going the limit or usually a few mph over. Then on the highway, it will follow the speed I set, no problem.
Tesla should improve their driver alerting system. When avoiding huge crater sized potholes it gave me a warning about departing the road. Yup, by 6” over the side line so I didn’t destroy my rims. Also get messages saying it applied corrective steering when it didn’t. I am going to try recalibrating my cameras.
Who decided it is a good idea to just let ego change lanes every few seconds on it's own whim just because it has no set destination? Sometimes I still like to drive the car I spent $65K on. I do still like to drive but Tesla, in their infinite wisdom, took away the single-pull TACC option. I have to switch to Autopilot through the menu system which turns off access to FSD. Sometimes Tesla's engineers (Maybe it is Elon) come off as brain-dead.
Steering - the only problem with it is when you drive another car. I had to drive my wife’s model Y and the first couple turns I thought “why the hell wont it turn”. Steering #2 - you can’t steer with your knee 🤷♂️ We need FSD!!!!! I’m holding off on some long road trips until FSD gets here.
does anyone else find that sometimes on the highway it will drop its speed to a speed limit that isn't the highway speed limit? Almost as if its picking up the limit of a road next to the highway?
Wasn't aware FSD can detect Pirates now. Arr! Needs to come up with a skull and crossbones on the screen when it sees someone dressed as a pirate. Come on Elon make it happen!
School zones are hard. Sometimes, I dont even know if I should go slow, so I just do... probably should be FSD default. I like the other commer that said to have a 'Avoid School Zone' setting.
7:22 I agree that consistently is odd and, in many cases, seems unwarranted. I set the acceleration to chill, but it's still butt in the seat fast at times. In my mind, a real autonomous car rider must deal with the requirements of driving. If the traffic is fast moving and un giving it will have to be pushy and the rider will have to deal.
20:35 I can't do auto in my area, I have to adjust the speed. It's the primary thing I have had to do as far as helping it along. Also, at times, it doesn't want to get up to the set speed, and it needs some accelerator.
Very frustrating to see the steering wheel jerkily turning to the left while you're waiting at the red light to make a right turn (around the 2 minute mark). What the hell is it doing that for? This kind of behavior is what would understandably turn people off to a computer driving the car. All humans would be thinking, "I wouldn't be doing that, so why is the car doing that?!!"
priorities for me. 1) School zones 2) School busses with flashing lights 3) Hand gestures by police/road crews. My state doesn't use hand held Stop/Go signs 4) Pothole avoidance 5) Emergency vehicles. Happens at least once a week 6) Ability to Back up 7) Reduce creep time. I have lots of low visibility intersections with foliage where creep lasts over 10 seconds.
I now get the steering wheel turning completely left when stopped at red lights. Then on green it straightens it out and goes. It fails to make left turns that are double left turn lanes. It always fails and goes into the other lane cutting whoever is next to me off. Phantom breaking is back and it feels worse unfortunately. At this point, today my car drove like v11. I went 46 miles and had to take over 9 times for safety issues. Very disappointed. The car uploaded 16GB from the drive. I tend to upload 8-15GB per day. I still like watching your videos! I wish I could have Elon drive with me so I can show him it's nowhere near ready to drive on its own. His last X comment about the amount of interventions, was a massive laugh for me. No way. Lol.
I've been finding deceleration for yellow lights very aggressive. Recently had one stop for a yellow that was hard enough to get some chirping on the front tires (warm day on dry pavement).
I'm on 12.3.6, pretty good overall, much better than V11, but yea rocket ship blast offs on some stop signs and hard breaking for a yellow stop light. V11 would smoothly handle the yellow, rolling through them.
Chris, Thanks for all your great videos and commentary. I have a suggestion for your chart of interventions and disengagements. Instead of "miles per X" it would be better to chart "X per 1000 miles. As it is, a short drive with zero disengagements seems worse than a long drive also with zero disengagements. With "Disengagements per 1000 miles, both would show zero. That would be more informative IMO.
My list for FSD To-do: DO NOT ENTER signs School Zone speed limit by time Electronic speed limit signs Emergency vehicles pull over Crossing Guard/Cop hand signals Reversing at dead ends Slow/Stop manual signs (construction etc) inconsistent Instructions “when flashing” Cops signaling to pull over Pothole avoidance Low height road debris avoidance Hand signals from other drivers Slow down for dips Curve speed signs Tolls
I drive a Tesla in Germany (originally from Michigan though:), and the speed limits are actually my biggest problem with Autopilot, since we don’t get FSD:( ACTUALLY the speed zones are more miss than hit. For example, Germany has a sign saying the speed limit is 30 kph during such and such a time, or for the next 300 m, or for just this intersection, and the Tesla recognizes the sign, but it doesn’t follow the times or speed back up after the zone ends. So probably 90% of the time I use autopilot off highway, I’m overriding with the pedal. It sucks. I hope if we ever get FSD, it works much better.
Are you having issues with the car accelerating way too fast once it restarts from a stop…it’s like my car wants to get to the speed limit sign that it saw 15 mins ago…all my stuff goes into the floorboard or I have whiplash - it’s crazy 🤪 hope this is fixed in 12.4 or 12.5
My biggest complaint for the last year has been the lack of intelligence in reading signage. On interstate in IL you can have 3 speed related signs in a 1000 foot stretch. One for the speed limit, then one for the truck speed limit, and then one for the minimum. FSD will frequently change speeds for each one. So suddenly in a 65mph zone, where most cars are doing almost 80mph, the car slows assuming the limit is now 45mph. Granted, if it is in fast traffic it will not slow completely down to keep with traffic for safety. It is just tiring to see the set speed keep changing when it hasn't really changed in 50 miles. I am guessing the code-base for City and Highway are still not merged. So based on that my biggest issue may not even be getting much attention these days.
I agree with the excessive acceleration issues. Braking tends to be consistently too early when approaching a red light or stop sign. It brakes, then has to accelerate to get to the limit line. I find myself having to push the accelerator frequently cause it slows too early. It's also almost useless at night unless there is good exterior lighting. Where I'm at there tends to be little street lighting. The system aborts and thinks the interior camera is covered. I have to drive with the interior light on to keep it from disengaging. Most of your videos are in the daytime. How often do you use it at night? I imagine it's pretty dark on those dirt roads.
For the user i would love to see the ability to customize your routes , and also for it to remember your speed settings. Its jarring to be going 75 and it suddenly start to slow down to 55. Some other roads i drive on, limit is 40 , however the slow lane goes 50 and the fast lane 60 , unlesd theres traffic. We need adjustability on the acceleration. Launching on a stop sign to go 25 is unacceptable . I often find on multiple turn lanes it cant decide whitch one it wants to be in and does a serpentine motion where it shows it switching lanes . If theres people behind me its a automatic intervention
Yeah the only perceivable difference in driver profile is currently on the highway legacy stack to your point. Chill is painful and assertive is an asshole about the passing lane 😅
The emergency vehicle situation is a very fringe case and I understand why that is having issues. I bet there are EXTREMELY minimal examples of that scenario for the car to learn. I would imagine in some of these cases Tesla may have to intentionally create them in order to give the system scenarios for it to be able to learn.
I was thinking the same thing, and also with hand signals. They could be trained artificially (testing track) and maybe simulation as well as happenstance
