Does the FSD Beta system learn as it goes? Since the 2022.45.15 upgrade my car has consistently missed a rural exit off the interstate. On the nav display it showed that the exit was 200 feet further down the road than it is in reality. I would disengage, take the exit and report. I did this every day for weeks. Then a few days ago it started taking the exit flawlessly every time. AFAIK the car hadn't received any updates.
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Does FSD learn?
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Tam
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Some people swear that it does!
In my experience, things only improve after a software update, not instant learning from a current version.
That means it couldn't competently take a particular curve previously (curves of death), but many months or years after an update, it now can.
On the other hand, there's a stop sign that my FSD consistently ignores since I bought FSD in 2017. I gave up "teaching" it. You are talking about weeks, and I am talking about years!
My problem with stop signs is that it trys to stop at two different stop signs on a rural road that are meant for the cross traffic. The roads cross at an extremely acute angle so the sign is angled toward the oncoming lanes.
To be honest, even a rookie human driver would be confused. I'm tempted to go out a night with a big wrench and a cheater and twist those sign posts.
To be honest, even a rookie human driver would be confused. I'm tempted to go out a night with a big wrench and a cheater and twist those sign posts.
I've had similar experiences where, for example, my MY would try to turn into a shopping center entrance cut in the median that was several hundred feet short of the actual turn. Magically, after 4 or 5 times of my correcting it--it now does it perfectly. I strongly suspect there is some element of local learning. Perhaps part of Tesla's "secret sauce."
zoomer0056
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No updates leads me to believe your reporting did something. Either the car learned or some sort of stealth update happened. We can only speculate but there is an answer we don't know.
That makes sense. These are issues with the map and routing, and should be fixed for all users, not just the one car which reports it. So the changes should be on map and routing servers.
I don't know how detailed the in-car map is. I don't know where the routing is calculated. In any case it would make sense to have a base map on board, and to download details and changes over the air as needed. This is how Google Maps on smart phones works. There is a low resolution world map which is available without cellular or WiFi, and GPS can locate the position on that map. With a data connection or a pre-downloaded detail map file, all the details are available. Perhaps Tesla follows a similar approach.
This would explain the improvement posters here have described, without contradicting the general understanding that our cars do not learn.
I, for one, wish the car did learn, or at least remember stuff about my common routes. But that will have to wait for some future update. ;-)
clydeiii
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