i heard that also. my car has not updated to 2022.36.x either and stuck on the same build. so im hoping i get it, lol im tired of giving the money just for summon and self parking
Be careful what you wish for.
I happen to be on the Beta. Yes, it does turns on city streets, with or without stoplights, goes around garbage trucks, and so on. Nice, huh?
It also makes the occasional attempt to, from a dead stop, to start up and run through a
red light with traffic running at high speed. It will go smack down the middle of an unstriped road
approaching the steep brow of a hill that very definitely has opposing traffic coming at one at speed.
On any given 12 to 20 mile trip, at minimum, I’m hitting the Record This button 5 times; at max, it’s more than 20. I’d estimate that 80% if those hits are just stupid stuff, like getting stuck in the wrong lane, or swerving all the way to the far right of a road when taking a left, causing other drivers behind one to honk and curse. (No, I don’t do that normally, I disengage if it tries that in traffic.)
Then there’s the 18% that would result in bent metal or traffic violations if the car was left to do what it wants. Driving on the left lane of a two lane road. Coming to a halt in superhighway merge traffic because it wants to merge, and there’s no room and the left lane traffic isn’t stopping.
And then there’s the 2%, like that run-the-red-light stuff. The release notes say, and I quote, ”The car will do the wrong thing at the wrong time.”, and they’re not kidding.
It’s kind of predictable, after a while, where the bad parts will be. But there’s
always new incidents. And these can be at random, even in places where the car has handled it well before.
This makes driving the car under FSD-b something of a white-knuckle experience. It’s not relaxing. Any idiot who manages to defeat the steering wheel torque and eyeball tracking Pay Attention safety features so they can watch a video or fool with their cell is trying for a Darwin Award.
Having said all the above, and I’m deathly serious about it, FSD-b has been getting better. Instead of 5-20 interventions on the current release, the previous was more like 10-35. It actually, but rarely makes a 15 mile drive without interventions in 69.2.3, something unheard of before.
So why drive this gut-wrenching piece of software? Because, to get the full FSD software delivered, Tesla needs data, lots of data. They get that from testers. And we’re
testing, not doing joy rides. With the intent that, eventually, our group efforts will result in a good enough FSD.
The software’s not ready for prime time. My opinion is that one can see that from here. There’s others on the 69.2 channel who aren’t too sure, but we’ll see. Nobody’s ever done this before, real drive-the-car software that can handle the real world, so it has a certain odor of a research project to it. Like I said, they are making progress, so that’s a good sign.
So, if you want to help, like to play with buggy, techie, newest stuff on Earth, then do the, “Request Beta” bit. If you just want the car to drive crosstown while you do other things.. don’t.