Hokay. So, Serendipity Strikes! The SO's 2021 MY got upgraded to 2024.3.10 and FSD 12.3.3 this afternoon. I got to go out on a grocery run or two and have Comments.
- comparisons.
- My daily driver is a 2023 M3 with Vision, no RADAR, no USS, and currently is running 2024.3.6 and FSD 12.3.2.1. Autopark on this car (and it definitely has it!) shows all the adjacent cars, the lanes in the parking lot, and parks the car neatly in the appropriate spots. It's supposed to select a parking spot with the scroll wheel.. but I'm not seeing that. When one is parking in a tight spot (read: garage) all the objects in the garage (lawnmower, snowblower, stuff stacked on the wall, bicycles) show up as either actual things (like cars) or amorphous blobs; the closer one gets to them, the more yellow/orange/red they get. No measurements of distance, but the colors aren't have bad.
- The SO's MY has USS - and it does show distances to objects, but the display is not showing the Vision display that the M3 has. When parking in a lot, am not seeing the really fancy view that the M3 has, but am seeing parking lines in the lot and a "P" in a potential parking spot, just like old days. When one hits the "P", then start (it tells one to switch to reverse), the car does its bit and parks. It's about 20% slower than the vision version. One does see objects, but they're not in the same detail as the Vision-based car.
- Other thing about the MY: It still has Summon on the app. And, at least with the new 2024.3.10 load, looks like it has the bit where it'll do more than back into/out of the garage, but will also traverse a parking lot.
- MY trip report:
- The good:
- Does pretty much the same good job that the M3 did when doing an UPL onto the Rt. 1 on-ramp that previous FSD versions.
- There's this ridiculously short lane that one has to turn left to get off the on-ramp onto Rt. 1; FSD 12.3.3 did a good job and got over without too much trouble and no intervention. Note that humans have trouble with this ramp.
- Otherwise, handled yields pretty darn well, did lefts and rights into and out of parking lots.
- The bad: Never saw this one before. New Jersey, on major, multi-lane surface streets, doesn't believe in left turns. Instead, one takes an off-ramp to the right, then curls around to the left (and usually a light) in order to turn left. These intersections are known as jug handles. (Out of towners are well known to flub these; one year, heading south on NJ-35, watched as some fool in a panel truck stopped in the left lane at an intersection and tried to turn left; ended up being rear-ended, his fault, for his troubles.) So: Heading south on US1 where it's three lanes heading south, and the NAV shows (properly) an exit to the right for a jughandle for the left turn. FSD 12.3.3 went from the center lane to the left lane, instead of heading for the right lane which would have been followed by another right shift for the jughandle. With 150 yards or so to go I intervened; luckily, traffic was light and I was able to shift right three lanes to get onto the jughandle. That was new and bad.. glad the SO wasn't with me.
USS or no USS, I actually like the Vision-based graphics better, so kind of hope that the USS-based view will die a death in the future.
Finally: The SO's MY has EAP before the 30-day trial started. Fine. When using EAP on that car, I've noted that there's the usual collection of, "THIS IS A BETA! WATCH IT!!" messages that one has to accept before one uses EAP.
So, when after installing 2024.3.10 on this thing, there were the release notes. All the good stuff about it being FSD, able to drive on city streets, yada-yada. No problem with that. And then it said that FSD was enabled. Um. What?
Got out of the release notes. Went to the Autopilot menu. And, by gum, Autopilot
was enabled. I. Did. Not. Have. To. Hit. A. Button. To. Enable. FSD. Period.
Yup, the word, "Beta" is missing, and is now replaced with the words "FSD Supervised". Yeah, I've been watching all you guys laugh about this and make silly statements about SFSDS or whatever. But this IS different. The release notes do warn one to Watch It and all; but one doesn't have to hit an "I accept" button after nominally reading the Dire Warnings.
That wasn't true for 2024.3.6 and 12.3.2.1, but is true for 2024.3.10 and 12.3.3.