Hey all! First post, long time Tesla lover. Driving a Tesla Model 3, June 2020 model. Version 2022.12.3.20.
Recently got accepted into the FSD Beta and have been having fun with it, but this post is not directly about that.
I've done many long distance (12+ hour) road trips with my Tesla before having FSD, and Navigate on Autopilot worked pretty good. Yesterday I drove from Colorado to California, and was shocked at how poor Autopilot performed compared to previous trips. In some cases it was completely unusable, sometimes making dangerous and jarring decision. I've never seen these problems on previous road trips over many thousands of miles.
My questions are: has anyone else seen these issues? Are they known beta issues? Could there be a problem with my hardware (cameras etc?). And, is there a way to report it aside from pressing the Beta report button (which I did multiple times)?
Cameras were cleaned with lens cloths (for bare lenses) and Windex (for glass covered ones) before the drive and multiple times during the drive. I also made several dashcam recordings during these incidents and the camera footage looks fine for all 4 recording cameras. (How do I know if the other cameras are working well?)
Details:
Frequent and severe phantom braking. On the 22 hour drive, I had at least 30 instances of random and hard phantom breaking with Navigate on Autopilot engaged. Have never had so many instances of phantom braking before! It appeared to happen most often when cresting a small hill on rolling roads, especially in New Mexico. As best I can tell, when this happened, there was almost always a car in my lane FAR ahead (half mile or more), and when cresting the hill, it suddenly appeared in the visualization (far away), but Tesla reacted as if it were much closer, slamming the brakes. These phantom braking events were often hard enough to throw things off my seats and into the floor.
Frequent and annoying phantom lane changes. Often shortly after the phantom braking (but also at other random times), Tesla would suddenly signal to change into the passing lane for no reason. There was usually a car FAR ahead (half mile or more), but there was absolutely no reason to move over so soon. In fact, if I allowed the lane change, it would often move back after a minute. Sometimes this happened while other cars were about to overtake me. Only happened on highways with 2 lanes in one direction.
Flashing auto high beams. When dark, the auto high beams were continually flashing on and off. They didn't come on at an inappropriate time, but almost always 1-2 seconds after coming on, they would go off again even though there was no traffic around. This repeated constantly, super annoying and probably confusing drivers behind me. It's as if reflections from street signs were confusing it.
Computer lockup. The 347 road near Phoenix has stretches that alternate between FSD and Autopilot. As the car switched back and forth, the visualizations and touch screen became more and more glitchy, locking up for a few seconds, making strange noises that sounded like AP engaging/disengaging but choppy, and then finally froze up completely. Bluetooth audio stopped, climate control turned off, signals and hazard lights did nothing. I was able to steer, accelerate, and brake, so I pulled over and restarted the computer. After this, everything seemed fine again for the rest of the drive. Outside it was 115°F (46°C), not sure if heat was a factor. (All of the above-mentioned problems occurred both before and after the reboot.)
Appreciate any feedback! I'm driving back in a few weeks and hope to find a way to make all of this work properly again!
Tim
Recently got accepted into the FSD Beta and have been having fun with it, but this post is not directly about that.
I've done many long distance (12+ hour) road trips with my Tesla before having FSD, and Navigate on Autopilot worked pretty good. Yesterday I drove from Colorado to California, and was shocked at how poor Autopilot performed compared to previous trips. In some cases it was completely unusable, sometimes making dangerous and jarring decision. I've never seen these problems on previous road trips over many thousands of miles.
My questions are: has anyone else seen these issues? Are they known beta issues? Could there be a problem with my hardware (cameras etc?). And, is there a way to report it aside from pressing the Beta report button (which I did multiple times)?
Cameras were cleaned with lens cloths (for bare lenses) and Windex (for glass covered ones) before the drive and multiple times during the drive. I also made several dashcam recordings during these incidents and the camera footage looks fine for all 4 recording cameras. (How do I know if the other cameras are working well?)
Details:
Frequent and severe phantom braking. On the 22 hour drive, I had at least 30 instances of random and hard phantom breaking with Navigate on Autopilot engaged. Have never had so many instances of phantom braking before! It appeared to happen most often when cresting a small hill on rolling roads, especially in New Mexico. As best I can tell, when this happened, there was almost always a car in my lane FAR ahead (half mile or more), and when cresting the hill, it suddenly appeared in the visualization (far away), but Tesla reacted as if it were much closer, slamming the brakes. These phantom braking events were often hard enough to throw things off my seats and into the floor.
Frequent and annoying phantom lane changes. Often shortly after the phantom braking (but also at other random times), Tesla would suddenly signal to change into the passing lane for no reason. There was usually a car FAR ahead (half mile or more), but there was absolutely no reason to move over so soon. In fact, if I allowed the lane change, it would often move back after a minute. Sometimes this happened while other cars were about to overtake me. Only happened on highways with 2 lanes in one direction.
Flashing auto high beams. When dark, the auto high beams were continually flashing on and off. They didn't come on at an inappropriate time, but almost always 1-2 seconds after coming on, they would go off again even though there was no traffic around. This repeated constantly, super annoying and probably confusing drivers behind me. It's as if reflections from street signs were confusing it.
Computer lockup. The 347 road near Phoenix has stretches that alternate between FSD and Autopilot. As the car switched back and forth, the visualizations and touch screen became more and more glitchy, locking up for a few seconds, making strange noises that sounded like AP engaging/disengaging but choppy, and then finally froze up completely. Bluetooth audio stopped, climate control turned off, signals and hazard lights did nothing. I was able to steer, accelerate, and brake, so I pulled over and restarted the computer. After this, everything seemed fine again for the rest of the drive. Outside it was 115°F (46°C), not sure if heat was a factor. (All of the above-mentioned problems occurred both before and after the reboot.)
Appreciate any feedback! I'm driving back in a few weeks and hope to find a way to make all of this work properly again!
Tim
