I had an incident yesterday in which orange barrels were used to merge traffic out of the right lane into the left lane (road had two lanes in each direction. I had Autopilot active, driving in the right lane, to see what FSD would do. I did not see the barrels in the driver display, and I took over control of the vehicle at the last second to avoid plowing into the barrels - FSD did not react. I had Dashcam enabled plus “save on honk” enabled (I honked) so I should have a visual record of the incident.
I spent some time with tech support on the phone, and that person indicated that cones/barrels will not be visualized in the driver display without MCU2. I asked whether HW3/FSD can sense & react to the cones & barrels without MCU2, and the person couldn’t answer. That matter is getting escalated, and I’m supposed to hear back from someone sometime.
I’m going to be very unhappy if I find out that full FSD requires me to pay extra for MCU2!