Tesla Auto-Pilot or FSD? Worth $15,000? 

I subscribed to FSD on May 22ns and was automatically enrolled in FSD beta on 2023.12.10. Made a 2K road trip where FSD beta did about 50% of the driving. We are 70 years old and FSD can be brilliant and infuriating. My wife said FSD reminded her of a 15-year-old with a learner's permit. The sexy graphics of FSD beta is pretty cool and can be swiped to the right to fill the entire screen. All the additional visuals are spectacular. Auto Lane Change is brilliant. I trusted it implicitly.

Great video. One of the best I've seen comparing features of the 3 levels. I have EAP and would like to try FSD but have no subscription option in Canada yet and not dropping additional $13K on it that's for sure since it's then locked to the vehicle and I'd have to buy again on next Tesla.

Thanks for your video. I have Model Y 2023 HW3. I purchased Enhanced Auto with my car. I am satisfied with that. I Uupgraded FSD for $100 plus tax. Cant forget about the tax. I used both but prefer FSD because in new driving areas I may be prone to making wrong turns, I feel more relaxed with FSD on long or short drives(since FSD takes full control) and especially at night when you feel tired because FSD is doing almost all of the work (i just supervise :) ) . My experience with Enhance was that it did not exit or change to another highway properly. Maybe it wasnt suppose to do that. Im still learning as well. Will not purchase FSD since Juniper coming around the corner and I cant upgrade to HW4. So maybe in future i upgrade to a newer model. We will see ....

Finally a video that actually does what it says. Ty for the in depth video on this.

I subscribe to full self-driving, did one trip and immediately canceled it the same day. I'm still upset I can't get my money back. Everything about the drive was sketchy. For me, regular autopilot is the sweet spot.

I don’t understand why its 15k for a beta feature. I’ve owned my Y for 7 months now and have 24k miles. I’m fine just using the autosteer. Ill probably try it out for a road trip but i don’t see the point with the cost being so high.

I’ve threw 6k for Enhanced from the beginning and I’m happy I did 🤙🔥 Thanks for the video in my lovely SD

Would love to help on any videos you make in the future. I’m in la mesa!

Well done, and thanks a lot because I want to buy a Y or Cybertruck; Full self-driving sounds right for me. It's nice to see Southern California again, but it does make me homesick.

Pointing out "just the flaws" is actually the right thing to do, given its safety critical nature. I wonder if they does not know where the lanes end, (should be in the navigation data), and thus makes those strange lane changes.

adaptive cruise control is hardly new, and certainly not unique to Tesla

The problem will paying in full, if for any reason, your Tesla got total, you will lose the FSD... for that reason, I would just do subscription..

Do not use Autopilot on the left lane if there are concrete blocks.

Thanks for the great review video on these features. If I decide to get a Tesla vehicle in 2024, Auto pilot sounds good enough for me which I assume it is like a normal Cruise Control. FSD at this time seems a little too scary for me to feel safe in any traffic with it enabled. 15,000 is way too steep a price for me along with actual cost of the Tesla vehicle. Even doing the 200 dollar monthly subscription for FSD is kind of expensive for the kind of driving I would be doing - retired and would just drive around town - do not get on any freeways. The Enhanced Auto Pilot has features I also really don't need for that 6000 price tag, but will re evaluate this option when the time comes. Don't need Auto parking, Sumon the car, etc. I have plenty of time to think about all this before I buy a Tesla vehicle (interested in the model Y long range). Thanks, and take care.

Hey thanks for your honest review which I find refreshing when a lot of these "FSD" reviews are more promotionals. What I have yet to see is passing on a two lane highway? Have you done that? How about navigate a parking garage or read any signs? Of course it doesn't read hand signals - how bad is it at recognizing emergency vehicles? There is an alternative for most cars - Open Pilot comma 3 which is a 3rd party system currently costs $3000.

25:08 So if get the "enhanced autopilot" at 6K then later get the "FSD" at 15K, do you actually pay 15k more or just 9K more because you already pay 6K?

That technology is called adaptive cruise control and it has been widely used by car manufacturers for years way before tesla was even created.

Full FSD ( all roads in all conditions with no human input other than typing in destination) is still many years away despite what musk has been saying for the last 5 years. Its improving but its nowhere near ready, nowhere near . In my area there are many places with poor signage, misleading junctions and no road marking .

Great vid B! You deserve MORE subs! 🙌

The only reason why I keep going into the left lane because it's navigating on autopilot to your destination

I mostly agree with all the opinions expressed here, but I think it's worth emphasizing that most of your FSD beta impressions are no longer relevant on new versions since FSD now replaces the highway stack and is 100% better than EAP, along with major improvements in town. I found navigate on autopilot (Enhanced Autopilot) so annoying for the lane changes you mentioned and jerkiness in traffic that I would stick with regular autopilot and subscribe to FSD when desired/needed or just go all in for FSD as it's really starting to get very good. I recently got another tesla and opted for a one-year-old car with FSD to avoid that 15k hit for it.

It’s $12K now but it’s absolutely not worth that yet. Even with version 12 that came out which is a significant improvement. I’d say maybe in 1-2 years it will be worth that but I’m sure they’ll raise the price as soon as it gets really good.

I opted for enhanced AP as that takes the work out of the most boring part of driving (highways) and also for the autopark, because I am still useless at parallel parking. As I live in the UK, I don't even think FSD is available and if it was, I don't think it would be able to sensibly handle the sort of situations we get over here with the ridiculously complex junctions, one-way systems, narrow streets and impatient drivers found in most cities.

My man for sure in San Diego lol. I thought I noticed SDSU lol.

Subaru had adaptive cruise control in 2013.

Fifteen THOUSAND dollars, for something that can do, BY YOURSELF, for FREE! Well, if you have all that money to waste, go right ahead. 😕

Thank you!

Let Jesus take the wheel 😂

I was in the exact same situation, and instead of paying $2000 for Enhanced Autopilot, and worse yet, don't pay $15000 for FSD. Instead do the $200 month subscription for the FSD, you can cancel this anytime and start the subscription anytime.

"from bumping into the car in front of you" Toyota Corolla Adaptive cruise control does that 😂😂😂😂😂

How many years until we have full self driving cars? I don’t drive because I don’t trust myself nor others but I would get a car if the tech is there for 💯 self driving. Maybe in 10 years?

do you need put the hand on the wheels when you driving FSD ?

I would still keep 150 USD per month driver here in India.

Most of you are completely misunderstanding what FSD will become. A review on a “beta” system is purely ignorant. Beta has already had huge improvements since this video and will continue to improve at a much higher rate now…

id much rather have phantom breaking and the car is nervous than the car thinking its in a fast and furious movie when it doesnt have the capability

I would like to be paid as a beta tester for FSD and not be asked $15,000 for it. Once finished in the future, when people know what they are buying, at that point it would be fair asking money for it

It’s BETA until the edge cases are resolved. FSD IS LEARNING AND IT NEEDS YOU TO ASSIST and go back over the areas you noticed issues and I bet it will know what to do machineAI Learning. In time you’ll wish you had FSD! I’m all in on my 2022 MY Performance

If there's cars near your car as you make a turn more sensors would be activated right? Would that keep you centered?

AP always phantom brakes and brakes hard before every overtake. If AP doesn’t work at a basic level, EAP and FSD won’t either, so I will not be paying to beta test.

I have enhanced autopilot, but I cannot find the summon button on my app. How do I do this?

FSD is $15,000, I think it would be better if you bought no extra autopilot and only go for the subscription, it would take 6+ years to break even

Good video

6:35 it wants you to go to the left lane because you configured it in the routing app to use HOV lanes. The HOV lane splits off, so to follow it, it needs to be in the lane obviously. Humans 🤦‍♂

So how would you feel if you didn’t do a lot of highway driving. Would you still get enhanced? I’m getting a three next month and still on the fence.

What year is your tesla?

Thanks for sharing

It's not 15k. Why are you spreading misinformation?

Seems like a complete mess.

Never seen anyone hate the fast lane more than this guy lmao.

Not even worth $12000. 8k I might consider. 4k will be no great .

Enchanted auto pilot is the best option

Too much complaining dude

Get enhanced poilet

You are an American? Aren't you? Why are you using Metrics?