FSDBeta 6 2020.44.15.4
Lots of testing pedestrian interactions in a suburban environment. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.
Stuff like this might be part of the reason why Tesla doesn’t “left justify” like Brandon says they should.
Merced TESLA FSDBETA TESTING 2020.44.15.4 - 13:34 - Brandonee916
3:50 - Brandon gives his opinion that the people asking him how to get the beta shouldn’t want it. Says it’s more stressful to use than not as he continually is forced to cancel the turn signal while stopped at a light. Bugs need to fixed before it’s ready for a general release.
4:55 - no turn signal as the car tries to change lanes to the turn lane (swerves back and forth), Brandon says it was doing it in front of a car behind him (visible on the display). not good.
7:00 - intervention at unprotected left turn. Car starts to pull forward while traffic approaches rapidly from the left. Definitely not a creep for better visibility (no text box on screen saying so), just complete failure to see traffic, apparently. Brandon is reiterating that the people asking him how to get the beta don’t want it. Says his car pulling out caused a reaction from the oncoming traffic on the unprotected left, which (IMO) isn’t safe even if he overrode it.
7:50 - Brandon speculates that Tesla might have to disable unprotected left turns and require confirmation for those scenarios.
8:20 - disengagement from Brandon because the car changed lanes into the turn lane very abruptly. I don’t think the disengagement was necessary from a safety standpoint, but it definitely looked abrupt and if the driver isn’t comfortable they should disengage. Brandon says Tesla told him that the build was more of an alpha level when he was contacted for the beta, and he agrees with that.
Some jerks to the right with cars to his right as he approaches traffic lights for some unknown reason. Nothing that merited a disengagement, but odd. He speculates it might be due to sun glare.
11:20 - phantom braking event as he was crossing an intersection. Slowed from 35 to 25 very rapidly before he was able to override.
11:55 - odd twitching of the wheel as the car did mini swerves back and forth crossing an intersection. No disengagement, but that isn’t something that would make any drivers around the car comfortable.
12:20 - two disengagement’s as the the car tries to change to the right lane with a left turn upcoming.
13:00 - Brandon sounds pretty done with the beta. Says using it on the drive to Merced was so stressful and exhausting that he didn’t want to drive at all. Disappointing for FSD Beta since that’s the opposite of how NoAP makes me feel, but expected given what I’ve seen on his videos.