johnnyruz
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I think your experience closely matches mine. My FSDb trial expired yesterday and I’m both sad and relieved.
I’m obsessed with technology so whenever I was in the car during the first 3 months I would always want to experiment with FSD and activate it. I quickly learned that, while it is amazing technology, it’s not ready yet and actually made driving more stressful (except on the highway). I know I could have disabled it at any point but I wanted to at least put it through the paces while enabled, so I would enable it on almost every drive when I was alone as my wife could not stand the frequent questionable driving dynamics and decisions while on FSD. The entire time I don’t think I had a single 100% successful FSDb drive, I would always have to disengage at some point, either in response to a dumb decision, or preemptively when I approached a situation where I just didn’t feel comfortable with it handling it. Now that its gone, I can’t be tempted to enable it and can just focus on regular city driving and use Basic AP on highways.
That being said I’m a little sad because I loved the visualizations which have disappeared without a subscription and I’ve lost Auto Lane Change which I used very frequently on the highway with amazing success. I think I could get both of those back with EAP (not sure about the visualizations?) but I still can’t justify $6k USD for EAP when the only features enabled on my HW4 car are lane change and NoA which I don’t really have a need for. If Summon/Auto-Park get re-enabled and actually perform well I may be tempted to go for the package, but I REALLY hope by some miracle the lane change feature is either rolled into Basic AP or is made available as a standalone option for purchase.
As it stands, I’ll likely be subscribing to FSD 1-2 months per year if there’s some killer new feature that is released or there is consensus that the performance has made massive leaps forward.
I’m obsessed with technology so whenever I was in the car during the first 3 months I would always want to experiment with FSD and activate it. I quickly learned that, while it is amazing technology, it’s not ready yet and actually made driving more stressful (except on the highway). I know I could have disabled it at any point but I wanted to at least put it through the paces while enabled, so I would enable it on almost every drive when I was alone as my wife could not stand the frequent questionable driving dynamics and decisions while on FSD. The entire time I don’t think I had a single 100% successful FSDb drive, I would always have to disengage at some point, either in response to a dumb decision, or preemptively when I approached a situation where I just didn’t feel comfortable with it handling it. Now that its gone, I can’t be tempted to enable it and can just focus on regular city driving and use Basic AP on highways.
That being said I’m a little sad because I loved the visualizations which have disappeared without a subscription and I’ve lost Auto Lane Change which I used very frequently on the highway with amazing success. I think I could get both of those back with EAP (not sure about the visualizations?) but I still can’t justify $6k USD for EAP when the only features enabled on my HW4 car are lane change and NoA which I don’t really have a need for. If Summon/Auto-Park get re-enabled and actually perform well I may be tempted to go for the package, but I REALLY hope by some miracle the lane change feature is either rolled into Basic AP or is made available as a standalone option for purchase.
As it stands, I’ll likely be subscribing to FSD 1-2 months per year if there’s some killer new feature that is released or there is consensus that the performance has made massive leaps forward.