It’s all about perspective. You’re not wrong on anything you say, as far as I can tell. I can relate to each of those “sucks”. I just come at it from the opposite perspective. I come at it from a place where I used to have to clutch the wheel, literally in a life or death way, and keep my feet glued to a pedal, for a couple hours a day, or more. It was killing my back and body and making me miserable and worrying about my economic future if I decided I didn’t want to drive as much anymore.Really?
I think it’s amazing if I’m the only car on the road or if traffic’s light, but …
The speed based lane changes absolutely suck with even just moderate traffic.
It sucks in stop and go traffic.
It sucks when merging with cars entering the highway.
It sucks at reacting early to stopped traffic far ahead, only reacting to what’s close by, only recognizing individual cars as opposed to traffic as a grouping of objects.
It sucks when the current lane turns into two lanes (staying in the center until it finally realizes what’s going on and quickly jerking into one of the lanes).
It sucks when the current lane ends and merges with the next lane.
It sucks when coming up to an 18-wheeler and not giving it extra room (cracked windshields must be its kink).
It sucks at following the speed limit when it goes down (supposed to slow down before the sign, not after).
Because the lane change logic sucks, it sometimes misses the exit, adding another 5 to 10 minutes to a trip.
I can’t wait to get v11. I love the Beta and hope the highway experience improves with the unified tech stack.
Then I bought the M3. Navigate on Autopilot allows me to reduce that aforementioned bodily stress by about 90%. Sure I have to takeover when merging. Sure I have to takeover when lanes combine (WHY can’t they fix that driving in the middle of a huge lane thing??) Yes I need to intervene but in a 75 minute drive, those instances are about 2 total minutes of driving. The rest are completely relaxed, watching the road, being aware and present, but completely relaxed. That does NOT suck!
FSDb is not like that. It’s more stressful than driving without it. Sure it’s remarkable if we’re being objective: nothing like it has ever existed for the masses. But it needs to be remarkably better for any kind of real, widespread use. And, quite simply, it’s not what I paid for. Legally, I think that’s a problem if it never gets significantly better.