After getting FSD beta (and therefore becoming a VO AP user), I've noticed
much smoother driving-in-a-forward-direction behavior. Granted I haven't done a ton of driving, and I haven't done a any
freeway driving (where radar AP excelled), but nonetheless behavior seems to be better on FSD in this regard... I feel like I must be running some exclusive
@JonNRb version of the software.
I was driving on 55mph rural highways today and noticed a marked improvement over driving those roads literally two days ago on radar AP. The car seemed to better predict the curvature of the road rather than slamming on the brakes (and took turns a bit more gracefully which is nice!).
Also on the highway by me, there are a
ton of stop-light guarded U and left turns where there may not be a corresponding light for traffic going straight. AP2 with radar would freak the heck out (occasionally throwing up red hands) and brake
hard thinking those lights were for the straight-direction traffic. (I know this isn't typically what people are referring to with phantom braking, but yeah it technically meets the mark by the car braking for an irrelevant traffic light rather than an irrelevant crash-withable obstacle.)
I'm going to pay close attention the next time I hop on the freeway (should be tomorrow or Thursday) and see if I notice any extra phantom braking, but I suspect VO AP may just be
better when on the FSD stack? Maybe single-stack will end the VO M3/Y woes? Remember, Tesla accelerated the VO hardware changes due to part shortages, and maybe they just always expected to go VO on the FSD single stack? (I hope freeway driving isn't bad enough that I have to leave the FSD beta because that thing is incredibly entertaining!)
You can push the stalk forward to turn off the auto high beams. (You have to do this every time you engage AP though which is annoying...)