I’m about 2000 miles into my first significant road trip in my new 2023 Model S with HW4, delivered May 1. I drove from FL to New England, currently in RI. I purchased the car with EAP but subscribed to FSD before the trip so I could use FSD Beta when I wanted to. I’m on build 2023.32.4 (FSD Beta 11.4.4), but I haven’t enabled FSD Beta yet because I don’t want the car to make its own lane changes on the highway (I have Navigate on Autopilot set to require lane change confirmations). I’ll enable it when I’m doing more driving on rural highways and back roads later in the trip.
I’ve noticed a few quirks that I didn’t experience in my previous 2018 Model S100D, which also had FSD Beta installed:
I’ve noticed a few quirks that I didn’t experience in my previous 2018 Model S100D, which also had FSD Beta installed:
- When using Auto Lane Change, with or without Navigate on Autopilot, if there’s an exit lane next to the one I’m moving into, the car sometimes tries to move into the exit lane.
- Once in a while Auto Lane Change will begin changing lanes but then abort for no apparent reason, not because of other cars or undetected lane markers.
- Once in a while Autosteer will slow down unexpectedly, not because of slow traffic in an adjacent lane (which is a feature). This is not phantom braking, bad weather, or a speed limit change, the car just reduces speed. On the other hand, phantom braking has not been an issue.
- On a few occasions, the nav system briefly announced that I needed to turn onto some non-existent road while I was on the highway, but then quickly recovered. I have to wonder what would have happened if FSD Beta was controlling my lane changes.
- Auto wipers don’t work as well as they did in my old car. Sometimes they work as expected, sometimes they won’t turn on at all in heavy rain, sometimes they’ll turn on when there isn’t any rain. I’ve had a lot of rain on this trip, and most of the time I’ve had to set the wipers to one of the manual settings.
- The left turn signal button the yoke wheel doesn’t always work (fortunately it works most of the time). I tried to make a service appointment in RI to fix this, but they were fully booked while I’m in town.