My daily driver is my late 2017 Model S75, which earlier this year was upgraded to the FSD (hw3) computer and MCU2. I purchased this car new with EAP. After the hardware updates, I subscribed to 1 month of FSD for $99. Immediately after that month was up I received the free month demo of FSD. After that month was up, I decided to purchase FSD outright as I really enjoy having it. It's much better than EAP was on the freeways, and obviously it's better on surface streets. So, I've been driving with it and using it for about 95% of my time behind the wheel, for roughly the past 3 months. Overall I'm very pleased and impressed. I don't have issues with the acceleration from stop signs/lights; I think that it's OK as is.
That said, there are still a few annoyances that just have me scratching my head, or outright frustrated. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are too, for those of you who overall like and use FSD.
One of the main things that just does not work well for FSD in my car, is for lack of a better description "aiming" while making turns. This is mostly true during left hand turns on multi-lane intersections, but also just around neighborhood streets sometimes, and also occasionally on right-hand turns. For example here's an intersection I go through almost daily, and have to intervene / disengage FSD almost every time:
The green arc would be my preferred path, but FSD almost always takes something like the red line. As it approaches the end of the turn, I have to take over to avoid hitting the median curb (outlined in yellow at the bottom center of the that image).
Another example, turning onto the same expressway from a different cross-street:
I would prefer to take something like the green arc (even wider, actually) and FSD wants to constantly cut a straight beeline from median to median, forcing me to disengage FSD to avoid clipping the median curb.
Another one that is a head scratcher for me is the freeway interchange from CA-85N to 237E in Silicon Valley. There's a merge onto CA85N at the same time as the desired exit to 237E:
about 7 or 8 times out of ten, FSD prepares for this exit, but then just keeps going straight on 85N, despite being in the correct lane, and having turned its turn signal on. I have to intervene at the last moment to turn the car onto the exit ramp (like right where that car is in the image, just below the green signs). This kind of behavior has happened a few other times at other ramps I take less frequently, but it happens A LOT at this particular ramp/interchange. Most other fwy interchanges it handles perfectly. Incidentally, EAP's Nav on AP functionality also messed this up most of the time (maybe 95% of attempts; it truly rarely got it right). Also the subsequent merge from this ramp onto 237E is difficult for it: it's another dual merge/exit, and FSD wants to stay in the merge/exit lane rather than get over into the proper fwy lanes. If I let it do that we would exit the fwy onto a surface street.
One final annoyance is how it constantly changes its speed even when there's no apparent reason to. I have the auto speed setting to "off" yet it still adjusts max speed all the time.
So, do other people have similar problems? If so what car are you driving and which HW (camera/sensor suite? FSD computer generation? MCU generation?) do you drive?
What does FSD continue to get wrong for you?
That said, there are still a few annoyances that just have me scratching my head, or outright frustrated. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are too, for those of you who overall like and use FSD.
One of the main things that just does not work well for FSD in my car, is for lack of a better description "aiming" while making turns. This is mostly true during left hand turns on multi-lane intersections, but also just around neighborhood streets sometimes, and also occasionally on right-hand turns. For example here's an intersection I go through almost daily, and have to intervene / disengage FSD almost every time:
The green arc would be my preferred path, but FSD almost always takes something like the red line. As it approaches the end of the turn, I have to take over to avoid hitting the median curb (outlined in yellow at the bottom center of the that image).
Another example, turning onto the same expressway from a different cross-street:
I would prefer to take something like the green arc (even wider, actually) and FSD wants to constantly cut a straight beeline from median to median, forcing me to disengage FSD to avoid clipping the median curb.
Another one that is a head scratcher for me is the freeway interchange from CA-85N to 237E in Silicon Valley. There's a merge onto CA85N at the same time as the desired exit to 237E:
about 7 or 8 times out of ten, FSD prepares for this exit, but then just keeps going straight on 85N, despite being in the correct lane, and having turned its turn signal on. I have to intervene at the last moment to turn the car onto the exit ramp (like right where that car is in the image, just below the green signs). This kind of behavior has happened a few other times at other ramps I take less frequently, but it happens A LOT at this particular ramp/interchange. Most other fwy interchanges it handles perfectly. Incidentally, EAP's Nav on AP functionality also messed this up most of the time (maybe 95% of attempts; it truly rarely got it right). Also the subsequent merge from this ramp onto 237E is difficult for it: it's another dual merge/exit, and FSD wants to stay in the merge/exit lane rather than get over into the proper fwy lanes. If I let it do that we would exit the fwy onto a surface street.
One final annoyance is how it constantly changes its speed even when there's no apparent reason to. I have the auto speed setting to "off" yet it still adjusts max speed all the time.
So, do other people have similar problems? If so what car are you driving and which HW (camera/sensor suite? FSD computer generation? MCU generation?) do you drive?
What does FSD continue to get wrong for you?
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