Hey all, I'm new here.
I just got my beta access. Looks like some people got instructions on how to provide feedback to Tesla. I can see in some other threads that there is an email address and "Record Video" button but I didn't get any info on that... my beta just installed and shows the release notes. And I didn't see the video button when I was out driving (I may have just missed it). I have a 2019 Model 3.
I read some of the previous threads but I'm not sure if those are still best practice.
Also, some notes on my experience thus far:
Overall not thrilled with the experience so far but I get that it is a beta. And I also get that New England roads can be tough even for humans. But crossing my fingers that it gets better.
I just got my beta access. Looks like some people got instructions on how to provide feedback to Tesla. I can see in some other threads that there is an email address and "Record Video" button but I didn't get any info on that... my beta just installed and shows the release notes. And I didn't see the video button when I was out driving (I may have just missed it). I have a 2019 Model 3.
I read some of the previous threads but I'm not sure if those are still best practice.
Also, some notes on my experience thus far:
- I was at 98 safety score for well over a week after it supposedly started rolling out to 98s, and nothing.
- I finally hit 99 and it took 5 days at 99 to get beta.
- The beta just showed up as a normal update for me. It took about 45 minutes to install.
- I never got an email like some people did. But I know they have my right email as I get other emails from them.
- I'm in a medium sized (just < 100k people) suburban / urban city in New England, USA. So lots of aggressive drivers and lots of potholes. And lots of streets that would confuse even a human driver.
- Taking a left onto a moderately busy road from a stop sign. It was starting to move forward and there was clearly a car coming from my left. I don't know if it was going to try to turn so I may have not had to take control this time but I felt better safe than sorry.
- Taking a right onto a road with a higher speed limit. It took the turn WAY to slow, I had to accelerate to not cause other's to have to aggressively break. Granted this one was just a case of FSD not being aggressive enough vs actually making a mistake but it was a very safe turn, there was no reason to go that slow (when I say slow I mean... 5MPH on a 40MPH road... that slow).
- Taking a left at a stop light onto a road with three lanes. It merged into the innermost lane but in order to make the next right hand turn I needed to be two lanes over. Ended up completely missing the turn (no way it could have safely gotten over at that point as there were other cars). A human driver would have turned into the outer lane. And yes, the car had right of way and could have gone into any of the three lanes but chose the inner one... literally the worst of the 3 choices.
- Taking a right onto a street with a divider in the middle and some shallow potholes on the right. Didn't even attempt to turn, just sat there. I had to manually turn. There was a car behind me so couldn't wait to see if it would eventually figure it out.
Overall not thrilled with the experience so far but I get that it is a beta. And I also get that New England roads can be tough even for humans. But crossing my fingers that it gets better.