After watching tons of videos, I put together a 10 minute compilation that I think summarizes what I gathered: FSD v9 is better than v8.2 but not necessarily in terms of actually doing better at the non-so-normal situations.
Top Comments from all videos:
- Smooth – you will hear this multiple times per video. Much less jerking or jittery steering wheel actions
- More natural – accelerating, braking, and during corners and lane changes also, the car just drives more naturally
Honestly, this just about summarizes everything I saw. The vast majority of improvements seem to center around it being smoother and more natural. In terms of it actually handling more non-standard situations, probably a little bit… There may be some less fails, but there are still some very serious fails.
Compilation:
Maybe my expectations were set too high... If this were just billed as a move from radar + camera to camera-only, then I would have been very impressed that it would even perform as well as radar + camera. This is a huge accomplishment, IMO.