What I found out yesterday is that it seems beta will try to drive you into the side of a moving train. I disengaged and came to a stop at a rural rail crossing (because the car seems to not be able to see far enough ahead and will run the stop sign as it's unmapped and if you are doing the speed limit it doesn't see it and react until you are almost at the stop sign). Then after I stopped (no cars or crossing gate in front of me) I decided to engage beta again to see what it would do, it crept up to the stop line, was showing a couple box trucks going past on the screen in place of the train but after it crept up it stopped showing the trucks and then decided to go. I obviously had my foot over the brake waiting to see what it would do so I hit the brake, obviously I didn't let it get super close to the train or anything but it showed no signs that it recognized anything being there or that it was going to do anything other than normal acceleration. I think I remember Elon mentioning something about needing to make the system be able to understand something is there even if it doesn't know exactly what it is. I just feel like there are many disconnects in the logic of how one thing talks to another in the car. Like videos where the car tries to drive directly into a curb or a wall and the persons excuse is that it's in a parking lot and parking lots aren't supported yet ... well the car showed the curb on the screen so it knew it was there, parking lot or not don't drive directly into a curb or a wall. As I have said in other posts I fully understand this is a testing thing and the problems they are trying to solve are insanely difficult and I have no idea how they are going to solve all the stuff in any kind of nearish timeframe. I think the current camera setup is not enough between not being able to see and react far enough in advance for stuff not on the map, to having to do the weird creeping and turning behavior I am assuming to try to be able to see down the road far enough. In my specific area beta is terrible, I run it for the first couple days after an update to send some data back then after that if I use it I just disengage it at most intersections if other cars are present, all the rail crossings because it wont stop in time, going through town because it goes back and forth between the lane and the parking spots and acts drunk. I guess one upside is that I don't feel the anxiousness anymore for new updates, I used to be excited and keep checking my car now I am still on 10.5 and don't care lol. But I do kind of get this feeling when I read release notes and they are talking about we improved this or that by 1.5% and so on, I just think at least in my area with my experience we are so far away from worrying about the couple % improvements, seems like they feel like they are in the fine tuning phase and I feel like around here we are at the let's make it stop at stop signs phase.
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