Convinced that it was insane to send it out to everyone in its current state that is. I got my trial just in time for my 2000 mile round-trip to see the eclipse (MD to MO, mostly I-81 and I-40).
1. It’s 99.9% there. And while I would be ecstatic if, say Excel were 99.9% correct, for something that’s driving me down the highway I need at least three more nines.
2. It not only doesn’t handle merging traffic well, it does exactly the wrong thing most times. When the merging car will clearly end up behind me so the right thing to do is to maintain speed, it always (always) slows instead, often braking hard, putting the merging car right next to mine, annoying both the merging car and anyone behind me. Absolutely brain-dead.
3. Still phantom braking. Seemed worse than with regular autopilot, in both FSD and EAP modes.
4. Randomly dropping out of FSD/EAP for no obvious reason. After the 5th “I have no idea why it dropped out" I stopped sending reports.
5. Random aborts of auto-lane-change. Especially fun when someone is tailgating me and thinks I’m brake-checking them.
For the return part of the trip, I used EAP, disengaging it every time I approached an entrance ramp with any cars on it.
The only thing it convinced me of is that if, as I assume, it was Elon who demanded putting out this free trial, he is no longer fit to run the company. I can’t imagine anyone driving with this for 1000 miles and thinking “Yeah, I’ll pay money for that."
1. It’s 99.9% there. And while I would be ecstatic if, say Excel were 99.9% correct, for something that’s driving me down the highway I need at least three more nines.
2. It not only doesn’t handle merging traffic well, it does exactly the wrong thing most times. When the merging car will clearly end up behind me so the right thing to do is to maintain speed, it always (always) slows instead, often braking hard, putting the merging car right next to mine, annoying both the merging car and anyone behind me. Absolutely brain-dead.
3. Still phantom braking. Seemed worse than with regular autopilot, in both FSD and EAP modes.
4. Randomly dropping out of FSD/EAP for no obvious reason. After the 5th “I have no idea why it dropped out" I stopped sending reports.
5. Random aborts of auto-lane-change. Especially fun when someone is tailgating me and thinks I’m brake-checking them.
For the return part of the trip, I used EAP, disengaging it every time I approached an entrance ramp with any cars on it.
The only thing it convinced me of is that if, as I assume, it was Elon who demanded putting out this free trial, he is no longer fit to run the company. I can’t imagine anyone driving with this for 1000 miles and thinking “Yeah, I’ll pay money for that."