Why are you giving him such a hard time. Even as Beta something is extremely wrong. And "Beta" is no excuse. I'd be pissed.
Now we don't know if it's a legitimate bug, due to glare in his left camera or what but he should get some reasonable answer than just "it's beta, live with it". I sure would like to know the root cause.
He's sharing his experience and Tesla's response for others. And I appreciate it.
I am sorry that being factual might be seen as giving "a hard time".
It may not happen all the time but Autopilot is known to do things that we don't expect.
I see this as just one of the imperfections that Autopilot will get better but I do not see there's any hardware malfunction.
Autosteer command was activated and the icons lit up as designed.
Whatever the automation steered, it's all displayed on the instrument cluster faithfully and flawlessly.
When autosteer steered out of the right lane marker, the instrument cluster also displayed that very clearly and flawlessly.
I don't think there's any problem with the sensors nor the computer because it faithfully reported what it was doing and what it was intending to do: moving out of the current lane and try to fit in a gore point or a road shoulder.
The problem is logic.
Why would it want to move out of a perfectly good lane and try to fit in a gore point or a road shoulder?
It's a logic immaturity problem that resulted in the 2018 death of
Walter Huang.
Tesla does not have the luxury of Waymo who send its fleet out and pre-map in high resolution of the road way of every gore point, every road shoulder, every light pole, every tree...
That might explain why Autopilot wants to squeeze in a gore point or a road shoulder in this thread. Autoplilot is not matured enough to make this kind of decision just yet.
Tesla's method is different from Waymo's.
Tesla does not want to write hard codes to perfect Autopilot but it relies on owners to do corrections so the whole fleet will eventually learn from the mistakes too.
And that's what Consumer Reports says:
"Jake Fisher, CR’s senior director of auto testing, says consumers are not getting fully tested, consumer-ready technology. In essence, he says, Tesla owners are being enlisted as beta testers to help
fine-tune the technology for the future—even though they’re paying $6,000 up front for the promised automation.
“What consumers are really getting is the chance to participate in a kind of science experiment,” he says. “This is a work in progress.”"