Unlike those hiding in the “here“ location I am in Illinois in the Chicago suburbs. Granted I travel (drive) a lot across several states. Don’t disagree there are likely regions with better street/lane markings that improve results but overall as designed knowing it’s general short comings I have few issues. Again for clarity, as an Assist software I do not groan fail when it needs me to confirm a touch of the accelerator.
I'm curious about the "few issues" you have? I'm seeing some people on this blog that have claimed to have 100% "pure" drives and others on the blog(s) disparage people who have issues, claiming we are simply bitching for the sake of bitching when their cars rarely or ever have the issues that many others are having.
I do live in a very rural location with little to no lane markings on our county roads. However, I work in/out of Dallas and I drive into and out of the DFW metroplex twice a week. Yesterday, returning from the airport, I had a renewed sense of confidence in the car, I had to make a few stops in the city before heading out on the highway for home a few hours away.
I departed DFW and had my FSDb driving profile "on" and proceeded to my first stop, a car wash a few minutes away and the car did ok that first 15 minutes with only a few touches on the accelerator to keep up with traffic. I left the car wash thinking this was the dawning of a new day. I had 15 mins of simply a "few issues" and I proceeded into the heart of the city along I35E and exited Hall St and directly after the exit there is a right turn.
After my exit on Hall the car activated the blinker, turned right and immediately got confused that there was a dedicated/marked right turn lane into a Starbucks. The "blue line" wavered left and right multiple times, the car swerved into the right turn lane (we intended to go straight) and made a dash for the parking lot then immediately shot left in front of a car that (rightfully so) started to pass me on the left, believing I was turning into the Starbucks. This all happened in seconds and I yanked the yoke to the right to avoid an accident, waved to the other driver in a courteous, apologetic "I'm sorry" and continued on my way, happy (and feeling lucky) that I wasn't involved in that accident that was literally inches away.
So I see these posts on this blog that others never have issues or they admit they have issues but dismiss them as normal or minor and it just begs the question; Do I have the stupidest Tesla made? Do I have a lemon of car and need to research the Texas Lemon Laws (too late for that)? I have had one(1) almost flawless drive in almost 2-years with the car. One, two hour drive where I had to intervene almost zero times. One, late night drive, from DFW to my home 122 miles away, where there was almost no traffic, no one to get in the way, nothing to confuse the car. One, flawless drive that I relaxed and allowed the car to do its' thing between 11pm - 1am that I could relax.
That one drive was a huge anomaly. I honestly am curious from everyone driving that have very few to zero "major issues" (e.g. Cutting off cars dangerously close, jumping into turn lanes when it shouldn't, changing lanes away from an upcoming turn with mere seconds to go, using the shoulder or turn lanes to pass slowing/stopping cars, stopping in the roadway when "confused", stopping at phantom stop signs/lights, running well-posted stop signs/lights at intersections, phantom braking, etc etc etc) is this really occurring or are you overlooking things that I find dangerous and unacceptable? This is an honest question to those disparaging those of us with major issues.
My car, on major city roads and unmarked country roads, does things that range from curious to patently dangerous. It does it quickly, it does it at random places and times (day/night), and it does it with shockingly regular irregularity. It'll randomly stop at an intersection with no stop sign/light one day and the next it won't.
I would love to see videos of how/when people with "flawless" drives can accomplish this. I would love to see what they do differently? Because I am honestly jealous and concerned that my car is simply not reliable enough to use FSDb or NoA the vast majority of the time and wonder if my car is seriously flawed?
