Have owned my Model Y for about 9 months. Have had FSD since delivery and have gotten a lot less use than I was expecting so far. I just never seem to be able to engage it for more than a few minutes at a time and frankly feel like I dont know what and how to operate it properly so I mostly dont. At this stage, I have mostly given up on it and when I do engage it I am left feeling scammed that I paid so much money for something that is just unusable.
Been to Tesla store and asked them for help a few times and got answers that left me feeling less confident than more in this feature. Its not like I want it to race up Pikes Peak in the fog, basic self drive on a mostly empty road would be a nice first step.
I see Youtube videos of people on the Beta and honestly think I must be on a back of the envelope rough draft version 0.001A. Huge difference in look and feel and functionality and frankly my comfort level of allowing the car to make any decisions...
Anyway had a 90 minute highway drive late last night and figured I would once again try to let the car drive on the mostly empty highway...
This went worse than I expected...
1. I am on a 3 lane highway with nothing in front or behind me for maybe 1000 yards, except for a semi truck in the right lane going much slower. Both time I was in the middle lane. I would typically move into the left lane or at least into the left half of the middle lane just to give myself some room as I pass... Twice last night I felt the car move towards the semi as I was passing - each time around the front of the trailer and the back of the cab. Both times I disengaged autopilot by breaking and changing lanes because I felt the car was being unsafe...
2. Totally open road - 2 lane interstate - nothing ahead or behind me. Cruising along at about 10 over the limit in the right lane and all of the sudden it signals to change lanes. I see no reason for it, but allow it to do so. Then almost immediately it signals to go back in to the right lane. Absent the signaling this looks like the actions of a drunk driver... Not exactly what you are looking for at midnight on a Saturday night... Happened twice.. The 3rd time I got the lane change signal was when I just disabled it entirely and drove myself home more than a little irritated about how much I paid for a product I cant use.
Looking for solutions rather than just a bitch session, I am thinking maybe I have some settings wrong, because this is not at all the behavior I would expect in either situation regardless of version of the software - no one ever wrote code for unnecessary lane changes or to see how close you can get to a semi at night.
Some questions that may have prevented the above situation...
Lane changes - can I prompt a lane change while in FSD? Currently I find I want to change lanes when the car does not, other than disengaging I dont know how to perform this action.
Same with saying no to a lane change - how do I say - no dont do that without disengaging...
To be fair, I love the adaptive cruise control and use it a lot more than I ever used cruise control in any other car. I also think FSD makes better decisions when there is a more traffic than less, because it did great as I left the city, the problems came when I got to emptier highways.
I want this to work, but every time I give it a try I end up disabling it pretty quickly because it takes more effort to let the car drive than to just drive myself. Last night I only ended up letting it drive for maybe 30 minutes before I took over permanently. At present, the car driving is more stressful than me just doing it myself which sort of defeats the purpose...
Appreciate any pointers to make this a more useful feature for me, because I am very close to just never using it again...
Been to Tesla store and asked them for help a few times and got answers that left me feeling less confident than more in this feature. Its not like I want it to race up Pikes Peak in the fog, basic self drive on a mostly empty road would be a nice first step.
I see Youtube videos of people on the Beta and honestly think I must be on a back of the envelope rough draft version 0.001A. Huge difference in look and feel and functionality and frankly my comfort level of allowing the car to make any decisions...
Anyway had a 90 minute highway drive late last night and figured I would once again try to let the car drive on the mostly empty highway...
This went worse than I expected...
1. I am on a 3 lane highway with nothing in front or behind me for maybe 1000 yards, except for a semi truck in the right lane going much slower. Both time I was in the middle lane. I would typically move into the left lane or at least into the left half of the middle lane just to give myself some room as I pass... Twice last night I felt the car move towards the semi as I was passing - each time around the front of the trailer and the back of the cab. Both times I disengaged autopilot by breaking and changing lanes because I felt the car was being unsafe...
2. Totally open road - 2 lane interstate - nothing ahead or behind me. Cruising along at about 10 over the limit in the right lane and all of the sudden it signals to change lanes. I see no reason for it, but allow it to do so. Then almost immediately it signals to go back in to the right lane. Absent the signaling this looks like the actions of a drunk driver... Not exactly what you are looking for at midnight on a Saturday night... Happened twice.. The 3rd time I got the lane change signal was when I just disabled it entirely and drove myself home more than a little irritated about how much I paid for a product I cant use.
Looking for solutions rather than just a bitch session, I am thinking maybe I have some settings wrong, because this is not at all the behavior I would expect in either situation regardless of version of the software - no one ever wrote code for unnecessary lane changes or to see how close you can get to a semi at night.
Some questions that may have prevented the above situation...
Lane changes - can I prompt a lane change while in FSD? Currently I find I want to change lanes when the car does not, other than disengaging I dont know how to perform this action.
Same with saying no to a lane change - how do I say - no dont do that without disengaging...
To be fair, I love the adaptive cruise control and use it a lot more than I ever used cruise control in any other car. I also think FSD makes better decisions when there is a more traffic than less, because it did great as I left the city, the problems came when I got to emptier highways.
I want this to work, but every time I give it a try I end up disabling it pretty quickly because it takes more effort to let the car drive than to just drive myself. Last night I only ended up letting it drive for maybe 30 minutes before I took over permanently. At present, the car driving is more stressful than me just doing it myself which sort of defeats the purpose...
Appreciate any pointers to make this a more useful feature for me, because I am very close to just never using it again...