FSD 12.5.1 BLEW ME AWAY!! 

great drive! I give FSD a pat on the steering wheel in moments like 5:30

FSD is becoming indistinguishable from magic.

FSD drive much better than an average driver.

Letting the guy out was impressive.

Thanks for this! I’m looking at getting a Tesla and I’m curious about the FSD. After so many negative opinions, this video really illustrates its power and efficacy.

Wow. 12.5.1 is impressive! Can’t wait to go from 12.3.6 HW3 to this! The progress is incredible and exciting.

It's pretty good, and it can only get better. By the time I can afford it (when I'm 84) it should be perfect.😊🚙🚗

This is so exciting. The biggest jumps in capability come from having larger neural networks, and Elon said the next upgrade to the network will be huge.

its getting so good!

People who haven’t used FSD on older version will never understand/appreciate how good FSD is getting

4:13 "Assertive" 👍

Tesla needs to get the maps updated more often. I have FSD 12.5.1 and using 2024.8 maps. This is week 31 of 2024, so maps are 31-8=23 weeks, over 5 months, out of date. There is a lot of road construction in the Spring and Summer. Without map updates the car is half blind, or at least not going to look as smart.

I'm new subscriber from Louisville KY. Glad to know by watching your video that you are also from Louisville. 🙂 While watching video suddenly I saw my work place and then realized you also from Louisville.

Great commentary, my new goto source for fsd content once in a while :) Thanks from europe!

Es passiert gerade was Grosses, was die Welt echt verändern wird.

Those 2 instances where it merged left from a right only lane where a little naughty, but I've done the exact same thing, as long as your not cutting across another driver i guess its ok.

Imagine being able to let your Tesla pick you up at the pub after a couple of beers, legally. Hard to believe, but...

I'm a total FSD fan. But in my first drive with 12.5.1, I had to do an emergency takeover when I was stopped at an intersection making a left turn. The left turn traffic turned green and my car proceeded to turn too short heading either into oncoming traffic or into the concrete median. I tap the brake and made an awkward left turn with the little runway I still had left. Later on the drive, FSD 12.5.1 made a similar error on another left turn but not as drastic-it braked short of hitting the median and turned around it. I haven't had a chance to duplicate this again, but hopefully 12.5.1 on my car was calibrating itself. I saw another RU-vidr was testing 12.5.1.1. Perhaps this is an urgent update to any regressions like I experienced.

Going around parked cars, Letting drivers pull out. Amazing.

Love your videos! Got my m3 long range awd and with 12.36 just got the 12.5.1 update. Excited for the FSD community!

5:30 Based on the visualization, the car noticed the Jeep was creeping slowly into the road and FSD decided to play it safe. This is less about being polite and more about the computer having no ego behind the wheel. It will pick the safest option based on videos from the entire Tesla fleet including detecting when cross traffic may pose a risk.

Nice video. I have the same version and I just expect zero disengagement drives now. Biggest reason to disengage for me is pothole avoidance. Speed control isn't great though. I typically have a couple of accelerator pedal pushes.

non overheating action cam that works pretty well for me: dji action 4

5:41 yep awesome, but especially the logic that there was a red light ahead anyway, so this made great sense. But also it probably saw the car on the right letting that car go as well. Great.

I signed up for a month of FSD but I realized it doesn't come for HW3 cars lol, glad you're enjoying it on your car, Musky Musk claims it'll be on HW3 cars in 10 days (doubtful lol), but definitely a bummer considering 70% of active teslas on the road right now are HW3

Great video as always! I was waiting for u to drive to that spot with the detour / road closed signs to see if 12.5.1 handles it better. Next video maybe?

17:05 strictly speaking and I believe legally, using signal there is right thing to do. Few drivers do it but I normally do.

It might be a navigation issue, but FSD needs to get into the correct lane, at the correct time! This fundamental for ROBOTAXI.

Boring sounds dangerous, enough to get the supervising driver complacent, and then suddenly intervention is needed. Google found that in its early days; cameras showed drivers turning around 180 degrees to deal with a laptop in the back seat, while speeding down the highway. That's why they decided not to go for driver assist, but instead go for full automation before releasing. It'll be interesting to see what Tesla's, and its drivers', experience is in that regard. Do drivers get complacent? Do they end up looking forward without seeing, subconsciously satisfying the driver monitor but not really ready crisply for action, not really fully situationally aware?

Very nice video. Can you do one that shows your heart rate and blood pressure? Just watching the video, I could feel my heart rate and blood pressure increase in some of the turns. Perhaps you're more experienced with FSD so would be be as affected

Bro, drive down to the 264 intersection and pick me up! I need to try out that 12.5.1 😅

What if you’re in a clear lane on the right and a congested lane on the left and someone darts out from that left lane into your lane. Does the software recognize a very aggressive quick intrusion into your lane? This has happened to me more than once, and I had to break.

Is there a law that obliged the driver to have the hands on the steering wheel….? If the car doesn’t brake any law, why would you pulled over. There are robot taxi without drivers in sf. They don’t get pulled over because there isn’t driver….

I Dont own a Tesla hopefully one day I will be able to afford one . I Love the Tech and going along on the ride with you watching your videos testing FSD

I have a 2023 M3FSD. I’m currently running v12 2024.20.9 and FSD V12.3.6. Still waiting for these updates. How can I tell if I have Hardware 3 or 4?

10:06 FSD goes straight through 2 sets of double yellow lines (A total of 4 solid yellow lines is considered a barrier. Do not drive on or over this barrier). The 4 solid yellow lines in FSD visualization is not rendered until the 10:08 mark after driving over this barrier.

you can try put a heat sink glued on the gopro

Can FSD work with handicapped modifications in the car such as Left foot accelerant adaptions?

9:37 to 9:51. FSD navigation wants go straight but it is on lane that will become a right turn only lane. FSD navigation did not change to the left lane and ended up in the right turn only lane (indicated on the pavement right arrow marking). FSD did not follow road markings rules (right turn only) and made a last minute (potentionaly dangerous? get honked?) maneuver to merge left to continue going straight.

Sorry they already released 12.5.1.1 😅

Great video. Would like to see more situations with FSD handling multilane highway traffic. That's where I seem to have a lot of FSD 'frustration' deactivations. Not dangerous, but missed opportunities leading to getting stuck behind slow traffic or late to make an exit. Staying in a lane when would be better to change or deciding to pass late. Constantly adjusting speed settings and outright wrong speed limit data. Hoping the merging of the city & highway stacks helps these areas.

I thought it made you keep your hands on the steering wheel now, maybe that’s just auto steer.

The legality of changing lanes in an intersection is defined by state law. To my knowledge, there is no regulation in KY which prohibits changing lanes in an intersection. Additionally, the rules on solid white lines which often precede intersections is found in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD). MUTCD Section 3B.06 White Lane Line Pavement Markings: "06. Where crossing the lane line markings is discouraged, the lane line markings shall consist of a normal width solid white line. . . . 12. Where crossing the lane line markings is prohibited, the lane line markings shall consist of a double solid white line (see Figure 3B-8)." So, crossing a single white line is discouraged; only crossing a double white line is illegal (for instance, the lines separating an HOV lane). Of course, if an officer wanted to pull you over, they could claim you were operating recklessly, but to my knowledge, there is no specific regulation prohibiting this maneuver. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

How the heck does it know a car is parked so quickly?!

Still waiting for 12.5 on my cybertruck haha

Mine has been totally bad. Imagining a turning lane, almost ran over a median to get into it. Ran a red light. A large turn that involves 3 lanes turning left at the same time, literally almost ended out riding the center of the lines if I didn't take over. Turned 1,000 feet before a turn, amusingly early wrong turn. Getting uncomfortably close to roundabout curbs on one specific roundabout. It seems to be aware of this though, and decides to slam the brakes and straighten the wheel to avoid the issue. Not good for anyone behind me. Keeps turning on roads and either riding or being just over the yellow line. Idk this update is lowkey really bad for me. Unusable outside of going straight on a highway.

⚠️ Every car that uses self driving should have some kind of sign or bumper sticker (like Student Driver). Other drivers will give mistakes, slow turning , long stop sign pauses, etc.. more patience and drive a bit more defensive on their toes around the self driving car. Example: 5:32 this is semi-dangerous. Anyone driving behind you would expect you to keep driving to the light. Plenty of room for yellow car to turn behind you after you stop at light. While it’s true that any cars behind you should be ready to handle an uncommon stop, good defensive drivers are constantly trying to predict what other cars in their immediate vicinity are going to do. When the car does things that are abnormal outside of common human driving behaviors, it makes it more dangerous. Other drivers if they saw a sign on the car saying it was anonymous driving, would be more vigilant and ready for uncommon behaviors.

WOW!

Who took the sensors out of the picture. 😂

17:07 "You don't really need a turn signal for that" Legally, yes you do! You are exiting the main highway. It would appear FSD should be monitoring your driving, opposed to the other way around.

It’s super annoying that it doesn’t make a sound or chime to pay attention to the road. If you’re not paying attention, you probably need a sound to alert you. It’s almost like the goal is to produce a disengagement rather than actually get the drivers attention. It’s such a huge flaw and I’m surprised with all the other enhancements this is being ignored as working as intended.

It seems that information of the right turn lane etc .. in the map needs to be input to the neural network. Which I wonder if it has already done.

Sorry to be contrary, but I don’t think you really challenged it at all. A boring drive on multi-lane roads doesn’t do much for me. Yes, it’s smooth but what I really want to see is how it does in neighborhoods and narrow streets and roads with really difficult interchanges.

found your channel.. enjoyed the review.

Getting better. It's 12.5.1% ready. 110% is still Eons away! Tell Elon to make it snappy!

You talk about fsd going into the middle lane while turning left. Are you referring to the suicide lane? If so that is illegal. People do it all the time and i actually think it is a safer way to do a turn sometimes. I think FSD should do whatever is safest. Ironically i am pretty sure switching lanes in an intersection is not actually illegal. I used to think it was but then people kept commenting on videos i was watching that it's not

What’s the status of The Blue Nag? I believe I only saw it once during your video.

I love FSD and my 2024 MYLR has received 12.5.1. My problems with it are mostly on the highway. We've been traveling this week and three times the navigation said to take an exit but FSD did not exit. One time I was getting onto a secondary highway,. The navigation said turn right but FSD tried to turn left. The worst thing is when you have an exit lane added that is not very tapered but just appears full width. FSD takes a very sharp right turn and I have to take over because it is going too fast to recover from the sharp turn. The other more minor issues related to speed limits. When I pass from a lower speed zone to a highe speed zone, but the car does not accelerate. it's that normal? I've only had the car 3 months and am still getting acclimated. thx

this is good but don't' you have hardware 4 So your experience will be a lot better than most no?

How do you go about cleaning cameras. I’m worried I fucked mine up…

You call that a ‘city drive’? 😂

Wow!

Just curious, I am having an issue with the wipers just going for no reason…. Completely sunny day and they just go off. You or anyone else having this issue? It happened to you at 9:58 and then again shortly after. Doesn’t look like it’s raining in your video.

So since you owned a bolt and a model 3 I’m guessing the Tesla is the best suppercruse vs fsd?

Would you do a smart summoning video with the new version?

Out of date now, 12.5.1.1 just released

I have Tesla Model S 2018 with 2.5 computer and Enhanced autopilot. Option to upgrade to FSD is 2K and my understanding is that I will also need a hardware 3 upgrade. If I get this upgrade will my vehicle have the same capability you just demonstrated in your vehicle in this video, assuming I have 12.5 version?

Dude, switching the water from plastic bottle is not going to save the world, LOL! Nice videom BTW!!

I have had an unsmooth instance, twice actually, on 12.5 where I’m on a main road and turning left onto a side road. It needs to wait for a car coming from the other direction. Instead of stopping gradually, it slammed on the brake. Could have been hit from behind the 2nd time it did it.

I don't get how you get all the updates right away and im still on 2024.20.9

Very impressive. Thanks for the video.

Will it park itself once it gets to its destination?

What mode are you on? Chill , average, or aggressive? I have hw3 so still waiting for my 12.5.x!

Had that water stayed in the plastic bottle one minute longer it would have been detrimental to the environment

amazing

Good video. Keep it up!

I will never get over that attitude. I use FSD 12.3.6 almost everyday and no way in hell would I engage it when there is a human being walking in front of the car. But this guy did it just to see what would happen. Damn!

5:30 to 5:40. FSD needs training on right of way rules. FSD was going straight and has right of way over the yellow Jeep that was turning left. No good reason for FSD to come to a complete stop and yield it's right of way to that Jeep.

Pay a ton of dollar to be a tester without any tesla's responsibility. Good choice !

I can’t leave my MS steering for more than 5sec before it nags on FSD. How do you bypass it in this video?

Get the dji osmo action 4. Way better than GoPro

13:25 12.5.1.1 :)

@5:33 was a deal. If it just does what we humans do, it will end up where we are... So it is doing well ahead us.

Any way you can possibly look at this, this is still level 2 autonomy. Level 3/4/5 are years away. Let’s not fool ourselves.

Is that a model Y? what year?

DJI for no overheating

My experience with 12.5.1 is that it's really smooth on a lot of things but one issue I keep having with the last few updates is that the car will be in the wrong lane for the next turn. Example being the car will be in the left lane turning left when it should know that right after it turns the corner it will be turning right so that after it turns it then has to get into the other lane, it should already be in the right lane in order to turn right. That's not natural driving and it does it over and over again. I love using fsd but every time this happens it reminds me of how much work is still needed.

Breaking rules of the road is not good

Since downloading V12.5.1 FSD is making so many mistakes - SUCKS

Great job

What do the letters FAD mean?

I can't wait for the first FSD 12.5.1 driver to get pulled over for not having their hands on the steering wheel. You know its going to happen and what will the cop do - I'm guessing issue the person a ticket for reckless driving and the judge what will he/she to - suspend the driver's license for a year? This all gets back to the real reason FSD was developed to run a Robotaxi where the cop has a "kill switch" and bring the Robotaxi to a safe stop on the side of the road. elon should have had 50 lawyers in 50 states working on passing laws to allow FSD to drive on the streets. and how does that cop and judge know FSD was engaged? Should there be a light on the Tesla saying "FSD driving"? because the cop/judge has nothing to be convinced FSD was engaged at the time of the stop.

30% is your face. Why? We can hear you even without seeing you.

For $10k+, it should "blow you". 🙄

BREAKING NEWS: People who can’t drive on straight roads shocked to find a computer can do it better.

IF IT BLEW YOU AWAY, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?? Jus sayin, Bro