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“Why use cruise control when you need to steer anyway?”

I thought FSD would give you a strike if it saw you on your phone?

I’ve noticed this more lately but I’ve also noticed that the nav system doesn’t specify which turn lane you should be in (I.e. they are both highlighted/bolded.) if FSD is getting incomplete or poor info from the nav system it will make poor decisions.

The safety factor also needs to be considered. Even if accidents are rare they are so expensive that a single accident can dwarf everything else.

If you look at what MB does - limited access highways, no lane changes, 40 MPH max, yeah, forget FSD, autopilot has been doing that for years. My experience with it since getting my MY in 2020 has been flawless. I have definitely had issues with phantom braking using TACC on other roads and...

Do you keep your foot over the pedal when you use cruise control? I don't, unless I think I'm going to need to brake. When using FSDs, I usually have my hands on my knees, either right next to the wheel or touching but not gripping the wheel. My foot is on the floor next to the pedals and I'm...

That's the million dollar question. Tesla's highway performance has easily been good enough to do what MB is doing for several years. No one knows if it's a liability question, other legal/regulatory, Tesla (or Elon's) insistence that they get everything done first or something else. I agree...

Sort of - my understanding is a L3 system allows you to do other activities without monitoring (e.g. read a book) but you need to be able to take over if the car requests.

Seriously hoping the system is able to use gaze tracking to eliminate the nag.

If service could tell then theoretically the car should be able to know and give an alert saying it needs recalibration.

Well, if you recalibrate the city traffic engineers it might help…

so what is her point in doing this? It strikes me as a case of "do a stupid stunt to get views." Is she trying to make a point that if you try hard enough you can defeat the safeguards on FSD?

I'm sure this will cross a line and get censored by the mods but... That would help explain white supremacists - too much time standing in front of an open microwave.

Sorta - mine's been recognizing the sign below, but it can't figure out if children are present or not so it always slows down to 30 MPH. Glad it's working for you but until the states have more consistent and less ambiguous signage I'm afraid it will. remain an issue. :/

Is that how Miss Jilianne gets her teeth so white?

This is something Tesla will need to address eventually. Say they get the system with 1 accident every 10 million miles as long as the cameras are calibrated but the reliability drops to 1 accident every 1000 miles if they're not calibrated. People won't know and won't care if the issue was...

Worst time to go grocery shopping: 10 AM on weekdays. That’s when all the octogenarians are tottering down the middle of the aisles!

to be fair, parking lots are not roads, are poorly mapped, are often poorly marked and confusing anyway, and to my knowledge aren’t officially part of the designed domain for FSD. Add multiple layers of a parking ramp and it gets even worse. If FSD gets me to the entrance I’m happy.

Based on how long it took them to merge the city and highway stacks before I suspect you are correct. :(

I’ve got him in a 12 step program…. Actually he’s made a lot of progress - he traded in the prius and got a Model Y!

So first question - exactly what features was consumer reports comparing? Were they comparing lane keep assist? Drive Pilot? Auto Pilot? FSD? Then what version of the software for each?

Are you one of those people who stops with their cart right in the middle of the aisle at the grocery store, completely blocking the lane while you decide whether you want Cheerios or Golden Grams for breakfast?

Around here we have a lot of cloverleafs with short merging sections that require you to plan your merge as you approach and coordinate slowing and accelerating traffic. (Yes, it’s a crappy road design, but it’s what we got.) v11 just can’t handle these. It waits for the dotted line before it...

That’s been improving for a while but IME v12 does a near-perfect job of slowing enough to miss the car without slowing excessively.

They also criticized a sports car for having a stiff ride. It's really hard to interpret what they say because they clearly have biases even though they profess not to.

That's what I thought, but I also noticed Omar providing steering input on the MB like one needs to do with FSD so I wasn't sure if it's Level 3 on the highway (in a single lane, under 35 MPH) and level 2 everywhere else or if it's just not geofenced. It's interesting because that's one of the...

or it's @AlanSubie4Life 's twin brother. I've been on 12.3.6 for a week, 12.3.4 before that and it's rare I need to do anything other than use the accelerator to fix the speed bugs for the vast majority of my driving. I did have a couple incidents yesterday where FSD suddenly braked quite...

The best way to get a release earlier is to not do what @j0shm1lls does!

if you'd just remember that Elon likes his lattes with 1% milk, not 2%...really, Josh. It's not that hard!

A year or two ago I read a consumer reports article reviewing autopilot and the roundly panned it because they could get around the safety checks - they put a weight in the seat, hung a weight from the wheel, buckled the seatbelt reached over to press the break and put it in gear and started to...

In the beginning there was darkness. And then the Lord Elon said let there be light. And it was good. But the Teslas were blind to the light and could not turn without curbing the wheels and could not accurately stop at stop signs and could not read speed limit signs. And the Lord Elon spaketh...

So if Tesla is their largest customer, where exactly are all the lidar sensors going? If they were using them for FSD we would have seen them in cars by now. Using a few for testing/validating camera data wouldn't explain the volume, either. Even if they cost $100 a piece that's nowhere near...

my model y does not, as near as I can tell. Tried the cell phone camera trick and see nothing.

maybe they should just change all the signs to say "Follow Speed Limit" then they never have to change anything. If you don't know what the speed limit is, too bad. It's your responsibility as a driver to know it.

In all fairness, pilots are highly trained and regulated, as are air traffic patterns. For cars, any dimwit that can manage to turn the key can get in and risk every other car around.

“2 weeks”

But if they change the 25 mph limit they have to change both signs instead on just one.

Even the cost saving bit is up for debate. They remove the stalks but add a bunch of other buttons on the wheel, add physical buttons for gear shifting and have to pay for software development/testing. You are spot, on, though - change for change's sake is pointless. There should always be a net...

So I have to wonder - why don't they just put a 'speed limit 55' sign instead of 'end of 25' sign? The cost is the same but one option is completely clear while the other is very ambiguous and requires you know what the previous limit was.

Nope. Just ignore it. Previous versions wouldn’t give you the prompt if you were close to your destination but they changed it. My guess was so they could get feedback on issues that occurred right at the end of the trip.

I’ve tried letting FSD drive on occasion in the winter with ice/snow. (Only when there aren’t other cars around and in situations where I can easily take over so it isn’t a safety issue.) I haven’t had a chance to test v12 but with every other version I’ve tried there is absolutely no way I’d...

I chose the route for safety - two additional intersections with left turns is clearly safer! 🤪 I had a disengagement today when it chose the wrong turn lane. It was making a left turn when it had to make another left a block later but chose the outside/right left turn lane. When I looked at...

So best case it’s no better and for some people no worse, for others it makes the car more difficult to drive. For others it’s a nonstarter and they won’t buy a Tesla without stalks. I have heard no one say they would specifically buy a Tesla because it didn’t have stalks or that they would only...

I also come back to my original question - what is the functional advantage of removing the stalks? there is zero advantage to usability, arguably a significant disadvantage. There’s no advantage for reliability, either.

I've been taking my car to a car wash since I bought it. The only issue I've had is some rainbow streakign/discoloration of the anodized aluminum trim. Reportedly you can fix it with WD40 but it's never bothered me enough to try.

except it's not even standardized in Canada. so you're expecting it to deal with an unstandardized system. Good luck with that.

So non-standard.

Where do you have flashing green lights? I’ve never seen that in any of my driving anywhere. Flashing red is used as a stop sign, flashing yellow as caution/yield, but what exactly is flashing green supposed to mean? It seems to be a non-standard use so I’d understand why FSD gets confused...

Virtually never, but not infrequently I need to signal while turning the wheel.