Aghhh!
So..hard..to..resist!! Oh, screw it.
We told you so!
Ah. That feels better.
Seriously. If you really read all the feedback you'll see that many have said that FSD Beta is not even
close to being self-driving, let alone being "full" anything.
Nonetheless, it is good to participate (a) if you are
really careful and (b) for those that could afford to sizeable cost of FSD.
BTW, I have a 2020/1 MX, but I don't think it is just about the X. It's all the models. However, maybe the newer (refreshed) cars (w/latest hardware/software) have a better time of it? Don't know.
What continues to annoy me are YouTube videos like:
Tesla Autopilot FSD San Francisco to Los Angeles with Zero Interventions
and
Tesla Autopilot FSD Beta San Francisco to Fremont with Zero Disengagements
and others claiming long-distance drives with hands-free, zero disengagements, people purposely napping while driving, et cetera. None of that could be true today, let alone one or two years ago. I can't go 500 feet without a "disengagement" on surface streets in my little town, let alone driving through San Francisco. These earlier videos were made before FSD Beta was provided to the general public in September(?) 2021. So they must have been completely faked using video trickery, or else perhaps made by Tesla employees using early versions of AP and/or FSD with the route pre-programmed into the software? I don't know. But having seen some of those it is doubly annoying* to experience how primitive and error-prone FSD Beta still is today. I want my car to drive me (hands-free) safely to the grocery store,
now!
All that said, it can still be exciting to be part of automotive history. But would I purchase FSD again? Not sure. I just hope Tesla does right by its customers, especially those that invested in FSD early on.
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* Mostly, I am annoyed at myself for being so gullible.