I see, I don't drive much either since I work from home, but my wife uses our car daily. I use FSD Beta just about every time I drive. If I'm in a hurry I won't use it because it is not as competent as a human driver & thus it's slower. It can't anticipate which lane will be faster or slower to make good decisions like a human can. It can't see 3-4 blocks down the road to anticipate traffic flows or the timing of traffic lights like a human can. I also don't use it that much with other ppl in the car because most ppl don't like it. Both my wife & my dad have complained about how jerky it is when I've used FSD Beta with them as passengers.
The scariest part of FSD Beta for me is how it wants to run red lights. I haven't captured any video with my phone showing both the dash & the behavior, but I did take a video of the dash in a situation where it may do that. Do others find that the red traffic lights don't show as constantly illuminated, but rather they flash? When they're flashing like in the video below, if there's a point where all the lights go dark in the eyes of FSD Beta plus there's no traffic it will go right through the red light. I've had it try to do it more than a half dozen times. I've also had times where it's slowing down for a red light then suddenly accelerates because it stopped "seeing" the red light. That is very scary. Every time I've tried to get a video of it running a red light when it's doing the flashing display like below the light either turns green quickly, there's too much traffic for it to go, or I'm too slow getting my phone out & it tries to take off before I can start recording.
I wonder if those are LED lights and they mess with the cameras refresh rate?
I have had no problem with traffic lights at all and i never see flash like that. (hit the report button when that happens, and maybe follow up with an email)
About the jerkiness, the most jerky is when doing left turns in parallel with other traffic, as it appears to be simultaneously adjusting for staying on the proper road path, while keeping it's distance with the adjacent car.
About the braking for red lights, it slows down too little with regen and then applies the brakes to slow to a stop.
You can tell it's using the brakes if you watch the energy circle... when I slow down it will regen more than -50kW, but when FSD is coming to a stop it will be less than -50 and constantly decreasing towards 0 while the car is actually more aggressively slowing down... therefore replacing regen with braking.
The scariest maneuvers are unprotected lefts.
I have been watching Chuck Cook's videos... and he would complain how close to the edge it would stop, but from the drone vids I was like, come on, it's clearly stopping before the edge.
Well, now that I am in the car with FSD, I'm like... gee/whiz why are you stopping so close to the edge?? Yeah, it stops suddenly right on the edge, while scaring the crap out of me and the cars coming from the other direction. I almost always step on the brake when approaching unprotected lefts with a lot of incoming traffic as it does make me very uncomfortable.
But when traffic is light, I let the car do it and it does a good job.
In downtown areas with a lot of pedestrian traffic, it's so cautious that I get honked a lot... but it is programmed to be safe and cautious around pedestrian, so that is not a bad thing.
Overall I enjoy it and (besides the jerkiness) I am amazed that my car can take me from A to B for the most part with none or minimal interventions.