Newbie autopilot question

[Comanche]

Hi All,

Please pardon the question/concern from a newbie who recently ordered the standard Model Y. In general would you say from your own experience that Basic Autopilot is behaving safely and working nicely as expected?

Thanks.

 

[paulp]

Is FSD much better? Does it have less phantom braking etc?

I had a model 3 loaner last week with fsd. Qued at the lights, first car. The car gave a sound and showed a green light. I checked outside and there was a green light for straight ahead, but I was in the right turn lane which was firmly red. (On Henley Beach road waiting to turn right onto Tapleys Hill Road)
The manual now specifically warns of phantom braking.

 

[ZenRockGarden]

Is FSD much better? Does it have less phantom braking etc?

FSD is a completely different (for now) AI driving stack than AP, that's designed for the entirely general driving environment such that you can tell the car your destination and it will literally drive itself there, thru traffic, pedestrians, 4 way stops, lane closures etc. FSD is (attempting) to handle the entire driving job with ambitions that the car could someday rent itself out as an autonomous Uber service.

It's using the same sensors and compute gear as AP, but that's where the similarity ends. Supposedly someday Tesla is gonna unify the two self-driving stacks and make AP be a dumbed-down FSD but that's not reality right now.

 

[cafz]

The car gave a sound and showed a green light. I checked outside and there was a green light for straight ahead, but I was in the right turn lane which was firmly red.

Yes, it doesn't really seem to recognise multiple traffic light clusters like we have in Australia, they don't arrange traffic lights like that in the US.

 

[meloccom]

As unofficial Tesla Historian, Tesla officially opened in Australia on December 9, 2014 with a Launch Event at The Star Casino in Sydney where about 9 Model S were delivered to Signature customers. Signature customers had put down a larger deposit to get early delivery and access to the Signature Red colour as well as signature badges on the door sills.
For plebs like me who didn’t pony up the extra deposit deliveries started on December 29, 2014 which is when I got my car.
Fun fact, these very early Signature cars were delivered without any Autopilot (AP1) hardware and Tesla replaced them all in the coming months with the same specifications vehicles free of charge and then re sold the originals as demonstrators. If you’re ever in the market for a 2014 Model S always look under the front bumper for the radar module which is missing on these early cars.