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With Tesla’s “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” package deal working significantly better and extra naturally, our aim is to do a weekly video utilizing it and making an attempt to doc how it’s progressing (or not — regardless of the case could also be this time round). I could change to doing stay movies for a wide range of causes — you’ll be able to 100% belief what you’re getting, it’s extra thrilling, it’s much less time consuming since I don’t need to edit(!), and we might doubtlessly construct in stay commentary and interplay to affect the testing. Nevertheless, in the intervening time, we’re going with what we’re extra acquainted with.
On this newest drive, the primary 17 minutes or so is from one steady section. Then there’s one other roughly 8-minute section. I’m going to jot down about three parts of the video beneath the embedded YouTube participant, however you’ll be able to watch the full video for the entire particulars and nuance. I present lots of commentary by way of the video with a view to attempt to talk and clarify every little thing I thought of FSD’s strategy to driving and the way it’s completely different from mine or the identical as mine. (Observe: Within the subsequent video, we should always once more return to David Havasi driving, however we are going to once more attempt to log each observe verbally.)
So, the one factor that prompted me to disengage after about 17 minutes is the next: I used to be in a left flip lane at a crimson mild, as I ought to have been. It was really one in all three left flip lanes, and was the one furthest to the correct. I had been sitting there for some time (as a result of the sunshine was crimson), after which the automotive began edging to the correct a bit bit and the steering wheel began turning quickly as if it was going to go away the flip lane and get into the lane on the correct of me that was going straight. I don’t know why it began doing this — perhaps it was getting impatient and was considering to go one other approach (we had been on the crimson mild for about 30 seconds) — but it surely unnerved me and confused me, and since that was undoubtedly not what I needed the automotive to do, I disengaged. Then I began FSD once more (there’s a quick reduce within the video there), however after a second, FSD began to do that once more, so I disengaged and didn’t re-engage it till after I obtained to my vacation spot and was able to go to the following one. After fascinated about it extra, I nonetheless do not know why it began doing that.
Somewhat bit earlier than that, there was an space of the freeway the place an I-75 overpass goes over the high-traffic street I used to be driving on. I’ve had sudden braking in that space previously (not model 12), and I had a bit little bit of phantom braking proper earlier than that simply from a type of massive signal over the street or shadow (13:09 within the video), so I made a decision to place my foot on the accelerator in that space simply to verify there wasn’t any vital phantom braking in a harmful scenario. That was the one different intervention in that 17-minute drive earlier than I canceled FSD on the crimson mild for the rationale famous above.
A 3rd uncommon incidence on this video got here at 18:45. I used to be driving by way of a giant buying middle car parking zone and a automotive determined to drag up subsequent to the curb going through the incorrect approach and blocking me, and placing on its emergency blinkers to point out it wasn’t going wherever. To make issues worse, there was a ballard in the midst of the street, between the 2 lanes entering into reverse instructions, so the automotive must go totally into the incorrect lane with a view to go round this automotive. Insane human habits and really disruptive, and I virtually determined to only disengage and deal with it myself, however I left the automotive to attempt to clear up the issue itself — and it did! It completely dealt with the scenario and obtained us again on observe. Tremendous spectacular. I suppose that is the form of scenario the place FSD presently shines.
The one different challenge I’d briefly observe from that drive got here earlier within the video. The automotive moved a bit too far to the left of the lane for my liking, prefer it’s finished earlier than (one time, on I-75, that led to the automotive really crossing the lane marking and straddling it for some time inexplicably till I disengaged). For a second, it additionally then drove a bit too far to the correct. I don’t know why it did this, but it surely wasn’t excessive sufficient on this case to disengage — but it surely practically was, and if I used to be simply utilizing it for my very own comfort, I undoubtedly would have disengaged, and I wouldn’t even use it due to these items.
On the finish of the second video, I additionally totally disengaged, however that was unintentionally as a result of I used to be apparently holding the wheel too tightly because it was beginning to flip. To be clear, although, I’m unsure how I or the automotive would have dealt with that scenario if I hadn’t unintentionally disengaged.
Is one or two interventions good? In fact, in lots of regards, it’s wonderful tech and it insanely good. Nevertheless, from the angle of this getting used for robotaxis, we’re removed from that in my view. This is only one automotive and only a 17-minute drive, or 25 minutes in case you add within the different section. It must be 1 in a billion. Sure, folks might say these weren’t essential interventions. I don’t know. They made me uncomfortable and unhappy sufficient to step in. Decide it how you’ll, however there are many different instances the place folks undoubtedly did must step in or ought to have finished so. The technological progress is wonderful, but it surely’s additionally nonetheless very restricted. Keep tuned for extra on that in a separate article a few completely different situation a number of days in the past, and keep tuned for extra Tesla FSD Supervised testing!
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