I just got back from a 100 mile drive on 55 MPH two lanes and some four lanes. My verdict:
For that situation, V12 was
slightly worse than V11. The main problem is that the car often drove too slowly as noted by AI Driver. This is not a phantom braking type thing, and it wasn't dangerous, but it was inconvenient and would have bothered drivers behind me.
Things that were worse
- At one point the car came to an unnecessary stop when going from one road to another, at an intersection that it's handled correctly hundreds of times.
- The auto wipers were not improved or perhaps worse. Recently I've had zero dry wipes, but had a bunch today. That could be related to cleaning the windshield.
- The car seemed to tailgate some other cars, something I have never seen before.
- At one point the car drove between lanes for a while instead of changing lanes. I may have video of that.
- There's a turn where the car has consistently gone out of the lane for forty feet or so, and that has not been fixed.
- It seemed to slow down too much to make a right turn off a road with a 65 MPH limit.
- There are still instances when it should turn on the blinker and it does not.
- You can no longer stop a nag by using the scroll wheels or the shift stalk (this makes it safe, actually).
- I saw the same funky steering wheel dance that AI Driver reported in a destination's parking lot.
- At one point I got a "Take over immediately" red steering wheel for no reason that I could see.
Improvements
- I can start FSD sooner in my driveway than before.
- There's a place where the car would always "lane drift" into the wrong lane, but it didn't do that today.
- There's a turn that the car had always come to a stop and sometimes jerked toward the side of the road, but it handled it correctly today.
Perhaps I'm being too picky, but this trip (that I make often) will be
slightly less convenient in the future.
The route:
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