So the Tesla will now drive at regulatory speed on highways, not going 1 mile\hr above the speed limit - it will not engage in an intersection on yellow (even if waiting to turn left in the middle of the intersection?) - I guess Tesla drivers will be the quickest 0-60 in an empty shopping mall parking at midnight but the slowest vehicle on the road! I can only imagine the frustrated drivers behind me…I mean behind all 365,000 + FSD Beta drivers
What? Sorry, have you read the NHTSA recall?
That's not at all my interpretation.
Regarding speed limits: if NHTSA wanted to 100% forbid Tesla's from exceeding the speed limit they would need to recall production Autopilot too. They did not. The wording of the recall is confusing but I'm pretty sure they're talking about how FSD responds super slowly to passing a lower speed limit. If the issue were exceeding speed limits under
any circumstances they would have worded it much more simply. This is totally reasonable for NHTSA to require Tesla to fix. It's not hard to adjust the deceleration profile and today it'll happily do 20-25mph over in places where it's not entirely safe to do so.
it will not engage in an intersection on yellow
Again, that's not what the recall says. It's not a blanket ban on ever entering an intersection on yellow (that's literally impossible if the light switches when you are say 10 feet from the intersection). It's clear they just want to tune the system to be a little bit more conservative on making go / no-go decisions on yellows. I personally agree, FSD runs yellows that I prefer to stop at.
The stop sign issue... I agree with you. That's gonna be frustrating. FSD today already makes full stops at all stop signs. Adding any additional delay will make this even more annoying. I hope Tesla can mitigate that by tuning the deceleration profile and creeping. By braking more abruptly and stopping fully at a point where they have visibility of the intersection (vs too far back) they can still put in a say 200ms pause when stopped while overall moving through the intersection at a reasonable pace.
The last item in the recall was something about turn lanes and going straight through intersections. I'm not entirely sure precisely what sort of behavior they're talking about so it's hard to comment. FSD has
plenty of issues around lane selection, how quickly it switches lanes out of turn lanes, etc so hard to comment on that.