2018 Telsa Model 3, Dual Motor, FSD, FSD Beta, HW3, 108K miles
TLDR, nice “noticeable” improvements, nothing major, less phantom slowing, better turn execution.
Installed the update last night. Did the standard morning run. It made the left out of the development smoother, slowed, then did a quick creep, check the coast was clear and went, still needs a little polishing. The Phantom slow downs are almost completely gone. YES!!!! Only had a couple, dropped from 40 to 38 slowly, not abruptly and returned to 40. The first left turn off the main back road (45mph) on a curve and side road comes in at slight angle with no lane markings, little hesitant and overshoots it, fine if there is a car there, otherwise needs to cut in sooner. Plus cars are traveling at 50mph and above so needs quicker decision on the turn. Next left, took it very nicely, cutting in early and clipping the end of the lane where a car would be stopped for the stop sign on the left. This is how everyone takes it, very nice. Have to see what it does when a car is actually stopped there. Spots where it would phantom slow, driveways into warehouses, it didn’t, Hurray!
Slowing for cars in front seems smoother. Returning back to neighborhood it made the right into development nicely, maybe a little close to the curb, but probably normal. The quick left onto my street was perfect.
Still waits too long after car/truck/etc in front clears your lane when making a turn in front of you. Slows ok, almost to a stop, but when the car is clear or starting to clear it should have resumed. I just hit the accelerator rather than wait for it to go again.
The left hand stop sign didn’t cause it to brake this morning, stop sign is for a road coming in on the left side of road at very acute angle, think of an upside down Y. The breaking was pretty much gone in previous update.
This afternoon I will go the other way and see if it fixed the right off the main road onto the back road. This is the one where its an intersection, no light, left street comes in from development, right street is a back road. The right side is like the top right branch of a Y that straightens perpendicular just before the main road. Few versions earlier it took it beautifully, cutting in early with minor slow down. It was amazing, how did it know? With the previous release I noticed it had gone seriously backwards. Going past the turning point and searching for the yellow line then trying to make the turn, which it did with multiple jerky steering adjustments and scaring the folks stopped at the intersection. It slowed way to much seeing the main road was 45 and folks run it at 50 -60mph. You can’t be slowing that much and trying to figure out how to make the turn. So will check it out this afternoon.
Bottom line nice noticeable improvements. I have a 2500 mile trip coming up in a couple weeks, so I’ll get lots of observations of the software. So happy to see the Chargers icon is now back on the main map screen, no more searching for it when a route is running. Still taking too long to slow after speed limit change, takes ~1/4mi of gradual slow down.
Fellow beta users, if your sync messages is not working, on your iphone go to settings, blue tooth, tesla, and turn notifications back on. Mine was turned off.
FYI – Phantom slow downs is not Phantom Braking, for those who’ve experienced how severe phantom braking can be. I am still very leery of them, especially when it locked up on a highway in Indiana with a tractor trailer on my right and left. I was in the middle lane. Thankfully the pickup truck trailing me had moved to the left lane before the car slammed the brakes at 75mph. My wife and I thought it was the end. We were centered between the middle of the two trailers when it happened. I thought we were going to go under one of them. Had the pickup truck remained behind us he would of hit us and pushed us under either of the trucks on our left or right. Still scared to this day around tractor trailers, that was a good 8 months ago. I pray it no longer does this and I don’t want to ever experience it again! I’ve had lots and lots of Phantom Braking over the past 4 years around tractor trailers but nothing to that extreme.
Be safe out there and keep testing. Go Tesla!
TLDR, nice “noticeable” improvements, nothing major, less phantom slowing, better turn execution.
Installed the update last night. Did the standard morning run. It made the left out of the development smoother, slowed, then did a quick creep, check the coast was clear and went, still needs a little polishing. The Phantom slow downs are almost completely gone. YES!!!! Only had a couple, dropped from 40 to 38 slowly, not abruptly and returned to 40. The first left turn off the main back road (45mph) on a curve and side road comes in at slight angle with no lane markings, little hesitant and overshoots it, fine if there is a car there, otherwise needs to cut in sooner. Plus cars are traveling at 50mph and above so needs quicker decision on the turn. Next left, took it very nicely, cutting in early and clipping the end of the lane where a car would be stopped for the stop sign on the left. This is how everyone takes it, very nice. Have to see what it does when a car is actually stopped there. Spots where it would phantom slow, driveways into warehouses, it didn’t, Hurray!
Slowing for cars in front seems smoother. Returning back to neighborhood it made the right into development nicely, maybe a little close to the curb, but probably normal. The quick left onto my street was perfect.
Still waits too long after car/truck/etc in front clears your lane when making a turn in front of you. Slows ok, almost to a stop, but when the car is clear or starting to clear it should have resumed. I just hit the accelerator rather than wait for it to go again.
The left hand stop sign didn’t cause it to brake this morning, stop sign is for a road coming in on the left side of road at very acute angle, think of an upside down Y. The breaking was pretty much gone in previous update.
This afternoon I will go the other way and see if it fixed the right off the main road onto the back road. This is the one where its an intersection, no light, left street comes in from development, right street is a back road. The right side is like the top right branch of a Y that straightens perpendicular just before the main road. Few versions earlier it took it beautifully, cutting in early with minor slow down. It was amazing, how did it know? With the previous release I noticed it had gone seriously backwards. Going past the turning point and searching for the yellow line then trying to make the turn, which it did with multiple jerky steering adjustments and scaring the folks stopped at the intersection. It slowed way to much seeing the main road was 45 and folks run it at 50 -60mph. You can’t be slowing that much and trying to figure out how to make the turn. So will check it out this afternoon.
Bottom line nice noticeable improvements. I have a 2500 mile trip coming up in a couple weeks, so I’ll get lots of observations of the software. So happy to see the Chargers icon is now back on the main map screen, no more searching for it when a route is running. Still taking too long to slow after speed limit change, takes ~1/4mi of gradual slow down.
Fellow beta users, if your sync messages is not working, on your iphone go to settings, blue tooth, tesla, and turn notifications back on. Mine was turned off.
FYI – Phantom slow downs is not Phantom Braking, for those who’ve experienced how severe phantom braking can be. I am still very leery of them, especially when it locked up on a highway in Indiana with a tractor trailer on my right and left. I was in the middle lane. Thankfully the pickup truck trailing me had moved to the left lane before the car slammed the brakes at 75mph. My wife and I thought it was the end. We were centered between the middle of the two trailers when it happened. I thought we were going to go under one of them. Had the pickup truck remained behind us he would of hit us and pushed us under either of the trucks on our left or right. Still scared to this day around tractor trailers, that was a good 8 months ago. I pray it no longer does this and I don’t want to ever experience it again! I’ve had lots and lots of Phantom Braking over the past 4 years around tractor trailers but nothing to that extreme.
Be safe out there and keep testing. Go Tesla!
