Just got back from about 34 miles of testing the new 6.1.
Right off it missed a right turn and tried to make the turn from the left lane. 10.5 never missed this.
It did a good job slowing down and stopping at a red light and then when it turned green took off like at the drag races.
Did good at high visibility stop sign intersections. Then on a blind right turn it took off too fast and lost control and ran up onto a residential yard. No cars were coming so I left it fail. Got the alarm to take over in the middle of the turning. I went around to try it again and it made the turn but there was a speed bump about 50 feet away and it took that at 40 mph. I went back and tried that road straight through and it recognized the speed bump slowed to 20mph. On a straight road for 4 miles I saw a cop was tailgating me at speed limit but the FSD was doing some minor phantom braking. When I saw the cop in my rear view mirror I aborted FSD drunk driver mode and took over. After the next block he passed me so I put it back into drunk driver mode again.
On a stretch of road with no lines it went down the center until a car was coming the other way. No reason to do that.
Overall, I don't see any improvement. It is more aggressive pulling away from stop signs and traffic lights. Very erratic steering around left and right turns. It did not run any red lights so I'll say they improved on that from 10.5. It continues to stop at all stop signs like before.
It might be my imagination, but it appears to follow closer at 45mph than before.
Still no auto-park notice in a parking lot.
Someone asked about driving efficiency so I ran the same route with and without FSD-beta. Without FSD-beta 10.6.1 I recorded 221wh/mile. doing the same route with FSD-beta it recorded 353wh/mile. I'm sure it had to do with the pulling away from the stop signs and traffic lights. In both drives it had good slowing with regen braking.
None of my driving was on the interstate, max road speeds 45mph I don't recall how may times I aborted but it was more than several dozen.