Took a drive today from south of Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass and back, on both city streets and freeways. Overall, I saw some behaviors that are better than prior FSD beta versions, but some that really need work:
1) This version DOES NOT recognize emergency vehicles with lights on. I was on a city street, two lane (one each way), and the emergency vehicle was approaching from the opposite direction. The driver display showed a truck image but nothing that suggested it was more than just a truck. This will be another NHTSA recall if Tesla doesn't do something, especially given the ruckus about previous collision events with emergency vehicles.
2) The vehicle WOULD NOT follow a planned route to transition between I-405 and I-90 east of Seattle. I was traveling north on I-405 the first time, in the HOV lane, and FSD beta did nothing to change lanes to make the right exit to I-90 east. I intervened within a half mile of the exit and drove it manually. On the way back from the pass, the planned route transitioned from I-90 west to I-405 south, and again I was in the HOV lane on I-90 westbound. The vehicle just sailed by the exit without making any prior effort to move over to take the exit. I didn't intervene this time. I'm suspecting that the problem involves being in the HOV lane, but I'll have to do further testing tomorrow & get video of the behavior.
3) While on a freeway, the vehicle is timid making lane changes while in a curve. The vehicle would slow down excessively and act uncertain about the lane change. There were no other vehicles in the vicinity. On straight sections of freeway, the lane changes were nominal. I had the vehicle in the "Moderate" mode without excess lane changes.
Now for a very good behavior that I've not seen documented anywhere. When one is driving in the far left lane (not an HOV lane) on a freeway with FSD beta operating, the vehicle now sees other vehicles coming up behind and moves over to the right to let the faster vehicle pass. I've never observed this before with NoA or FSD beta versions. 11.3.3 will remain in the lane until it encounters a slower vehicle, then move the vehicle back into the leftmost lane. I observed this happen both on an interstate freeway and a state freeway. It appears not to move out of an HOV lane if a faster car comes up behind. It also seems to not work if the FSD beta vehicle is in any other lane than the leftmost "passing" lane.
I've got a few urban locations at which prior the two-stack version of FSD beta failed, and I'll be doing video tests of those in the next few days.
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1) This version DOES NOT recognize emergency vehicles with lights on. I was on a city street, two lane (one each way), and the emergency vehicle was approaching from the opposite direction. The driver display showed a truck image but nothing that suggested it was more than just a truck. This will be another NHTSA recall if Tesla doesn't do something, especially given the ruckus about previous collision events with emergency vehicles.
2) The vehicle WOULD NOT follow a planned route to transition between I-405 and I-90 east of Seattle. I was traveling north on I-405 the first time, in the HOV lane, and FSD beta did nothing to change lanes to make the right exit to I-90 east. I intervened within a half mile of the exit and drove it manually. On the way back from the pass, the planned route transitioned from I-90 west to I-405 south, and again I was in the HOV lane on I-90 westbound. The vehicle just sailed by the exit without making any prior effort to move over to take the exit. I didn't intervene this time. I'm suspecting that the problem involves being in the HOV lane, but I'll have to do further testing tomorrow & get video of the behavior.
3) While on a freeway, the vehicle is timid making lane changes while in a curve. The vehicle would slow down excessively and act uncertain about the lane change. There were no other vehicles in the vicinity. On straight sections of freeway, the lane changes were nominal. I had the vehicle in the "Moderate" mode without excess lane changes.
Now for a very good behavior that I've not seen documented anywhere. When one is driving in the far left lane (not an HOV lane) on a freeway with FSD beta operating, the vehicle now sees other vehicles coming up behind and moves over to the right to let the faster vehicle pass. I've never observed this before with NoA or FSD beta versions. 11.3.3 will remain in the lane until it encounters a slower vehicle, then move the vehicle back into the leftmost lane. I observed this happen both on an interstate freeway and a state freeway. It appears not to move out of an HOV lane if a faster car comes up behind. It also seems to not work if the FSD beta vehicle is in any other lane than the leftmost "passing" lane.
I've got a few urban locations at which prior the two-stack version of FSD beta failed, and I'll be doing video tests of those in the next few days.
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