My first drive today on 69.2.3, it tried to do #2 on your video. Tried a California lane change last second across 2 lanes, lane next was clear, lane across had a minivan occluded from its view. It rocketed across both lanes, intervention required to prevent the exact sideswipe scenario in #2 of that video (Not quite as fast in forward travel but extremely aggressive sidewards travel).
While I’ve only had FSDb for a couple weeks, most of my drives have seen me intervene at almost every decision point (anywhere it needs to make a decision, usually intersections). 20% for safety, 80% to make it actually go before those behind me start honking. It freezes mid turn, fails to signal, and just generally sits there with a line of cars waiting their turn at the intersection.
My first and only drive today on 69.2.3, it was 50/50. Literally half of the intersections I encountered, it tried to bend metal. The other half I had to intervene or disengage to keep rural Alberta Cummins drivers from approaching my (paralyzed with indecision) car with their shotgun in hand.
It has not been a flattering 2 weeks. Maybe this is better in SoCal, but in rural Alberta, it’s a disaster. I’m on the brink of emailing them to opt out, and I went in expecting it not to be good. What I’ve received is downright ridiculous. I keep telling myself I should give it until V11, but patience (mine and those around me) is wearing thin…
And this is what I don't get. I'm chugging around Central New Jersey, home of interstates, unstriped hilly local roads, flat striped roads, four lane divided highways with people whizzing around at 50-60 mph (excluding the speeders, who are faster), weird lane routing, and all that jazz.
When taking local roads to work, there's maybe 20-25 turns; when taking the interstates, it's more like 10. At the moment, it's 3-10 interventions on the local path, two or three on the interstate. Long stretches of no interventions. That's an average.
On good days, local roads, I've had just two. On good days, interstates, also about two. On bad days, it's 20 and 8. So: Variable. Lots. And, I swear, it's Not Just Traffic.
Sometimes I think it's chaos theory, where a butterfly flapping its wings in the Philippians can cause North Easters in New England two weeks later. Or not. I've guessed that maybe Tesla has been changing parameters on the FSD-b fleet in order to collect lots of different data for analysis and update. Or maybe there's a smidgen of self-training built into the car. But it's just weird.
Several months ago on the first day I ran FSD-b on the 10.xx release from the local school parking lot, it was like, Just How Bad Can It Get? Turned left out of the parking lot rather than the correct right direction, so traveling exactly opposite to the destination. Then, as the road (with stripes!) curved around to the right, it went straight at full speed into a dead-end development. At which point I disengaged, did a K-turn to get turned around to the correct direction (yeah,
that bad), and drove home.
Funny thing, it wasn't that bad after that. And now, with 69.2.3, it's getting suspiciously relaxing. I mean, it does consistently do stupid things, like swinging wide right on a left turn (!), but so long as one isn't doing that, it's almost OK. Not good for prime time, but you can see there from here. And I'm not seeing metal benders like you guys describe.
It's just weird.
