As a new Tesla driver I find these modes very confusing. After watching this video a couple times I think I have a better understanding. Kinda weird that you need to stop the car to switch between modes. But I guess it's a safety thing. Anyway, if I'm in FSD mode, click once on the scroll wheel, and don't set a destination is the car effectively acting like it's in Autosteer?
Indeed. Based upon the one-month FSD free trial that came with our MYLR, I’d estimate that FSD “does the right thing” around 99% of the time (or more depending on what you define as a “thing”). For full level-5 autonomy though, that’ll have to be up at more like 99.99%, and each 9 added to that percentage gets _exponentially_ harder to add. So, yes, we’re talking years to decades. Nevertheless, I at least find it a lot more relaxing to scrutinize FSD’s real-time driving decisions and actions, and intervene when needed, than to make and execute those real-time decisions myself. So, in my view, FSD has considerable value in its current form, even though _it’s nowhere even near_ level-5 autonomy.
@@mr88cet Test FSD in a busy big city, or at night or in the rain. Definitely not 99 percent reliable in those situations. And remember, even 99 percen is NOT good enough. A human driver is 99.99 percent capable. A human drives every days for years without an accident.
@@DerekDavis213, yes, I also mentioned 99.99% or so being necessary for level-4 or -5 autonomy. Nevertheless, in the situations I used it, it was around 99%ish.
@@mr88cet A human can drive every day for years, in busy big cities, without an accident. FSD cannot even go for *one* *hour* in a busy big city, without human intervention. FSD is nothing like a human driver, a human that is capable of problem solving, analysis, and adapting to odd road conditions.
@@DerekDavis213, I don’t see much disagreement here. Based upon my short experience with FSD, it is _nowhere even close_ to sufficient for full autonomy, and it will almost certainly take years to decades to “rack up enough nines” to where it is. I am merely reporting what I saw during my one-month (8/2024) free trial of FSD: It very rarely - once that I can recall - did anything that could, potentially, have lead to an accident. That was in an urban construction zone, and was easy to correct. There were also several cases where it broke the law, but not dangerously, like taking a left turn into the right lane (with no cars in the right lane), or not coming to a complete, 0MPH stop at a stop sign (perhaps 2MPH, but not quite 0). I also saw one case where it executed a right turn at an intersection perfectly, except that it failed to signal that turn. Are there other conditions under which it could behave far more dangerously? Could be, but I personally didn’t witness them.
Rarely do you fall upon the prefect “tutorial/educational” video. This was all the information I was looking for in a concise, easy to understand manner without all the extra information no one cares about. Thanks for this, you helped me a ton!
Why does my autopilot not adjust to the roads speed limit. I am in the UK and say i am driving at 70mph and hit a 50 zone. Car still wants to do 70. Its annoying. Tried looking at the settings and nothing jumps out at me. Any help would be great thx. Oh i would luv to try that full autonomous
If I have FSD enabled I can click on the info button for autopilot click settings. Reading the pop-up is says that if I set it to double click then single click will activate TACC and double click will activate FSD which is what I want. However, you cannot change this setting unless FSD is disabled. But if FSD is disabled you cannot access this setting. I found a reddit thread talking about this. It sounds like a few months ago Tesla made changes to encourage more use of FSD so the implication is that this is broken on purpose. A workaround suggested is to use different profiles for Autopilot and FSD. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds viable albeit less convenient.
Quick question, so with a normal gas car cruise control when you disengage they just coast and it's up to you to then push on the pedals or brakes. With a Tesla, I assume the regen braking means as soon as autopilot/fsd is disengaged the vehicle slams on your brakes? How does that work/how do you mitigate that?
It doesn't "slam" per say. It coasts somewhat, but slows down quicker cause of regen. I mostly do one pedal driving (rarely need to use the brakes) and you can always feather the accelerator if needed.
Hi Eric - Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have a couple of follow up questions if you don't mind. My Model 3 currently showing TACC and Autosteer (beta). From your video I understood it as, "Both of them are Auto Pilot but Autosteer does the steering control in addition to TACC so it's like a higher tier function than TACC", am I correct? Also, what happens to your car when there's no car in fron of you? Does Autopilot (with Autosteer engaged) automatically recognize and stop at traffic light when it's red? Thanks!
If there's no lead car, your Tesla won't automatically stop at stoplights or stop signs unless you have FSD. TACC You're in control of the steering wheel. With autopilot the car is in control of the steering wheel.
@@teslahowto Thanks! FSD isn't available in here Japan so I'll be accountable for whichever (TACC or Autosteer) I choose. Again, based on what you just said, since I'm accountable for steering control when I'm using TACC, it's not categorized as AP? Sry still confused what AP exactly means as we have 2 modes in it.
Thanks for the detailed video, how it works to set speed limit? lets say I want to control the car myself, and want the car does not go above 30mph. how can I do that?
