diplomat33
Average guy who loves autonomous vehicles
FSD 12.4 first impressions: feels more capable, but needs a lot more “polish”.
I will try to upload some clips later, but the spring update messed with the visualizations so I need to redo my overlay which takes time. I’ll stay up late though
- no wheel nag is incredible, really makes you feel like you’re being driven around and truly transforms the experience. I feel like I’m doing something naughty by not touching the wheel but it’s so nice. nags are still present but looking forward at the road satisfies it. never touched the steering wheel once except to park. will do more testing with sunglasses in day time
- feels much more assertive / human like while turning in general, especially U-turns, stop signs, and parking lots. not any hesitancy or odd creeping in any of the intersections I’ve gone through so far, it just goes for it
- slowed down when a police officer turned on his lights beside my car, I know for a fact 12.3 didn’t react to emergency lights at all
- “auto” speed has regressed a bit, at least at night time. it was going ~5mph under the speed limit most of the time and never went 2mph over where 12.3 was always 5-6mph over on the same roads
- huge regression in random lane changes, it feels very indecisive about which lane it wants to be in it was going back and fourth between two lanes in short periods of time on multiple roads around where I live
- “lane dancing” still a thing in a couple of intersections, but seems to be more decisive. 12.3 was definitely worse, but it’s not completely fixed yet
- it spotted some pedestrians crossing the street I never saw and I doubt 12.3 would have waited for
- doesn’t park itself when it reaches the destination, will literally just circle the parking lot over and over instead of just stopping at the navigation pin. still need to disengage to auto park
- vision auto park feels much faster. shifts are super quick and it feels like it knows what it’s doing. I might actually use it a bit now
AI DRIVR uploaded this extreme example of the lane indecisiveness:
