Where Tesla FSD Still Fails (One 10-Mile Case)

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Editor’s observe: Paul posted this on X and tagged me. It’s principally an article, so I’m posting it right here with minor edits. Get pleasure from. —Zach

5 interventions in 10 miles v12.5.4.1 on a 4 yr previous Mannequin Y, north of Tampa.

#1 — after 6 years of growth, it nonetheless can’t reverse out of my storage, however we’re instructed this characteristic is coming quickly.

Navigated to a restaurant 5 miles from my residence. FSD was easy and did an ideal job with a u-turn.

#2 — I received to an intersection that solely the left lane might go straight (and we would have liked to go straight) and it picked the correct lane after which tried to chop in entrance of 20 vehicles that had been within the left lane. I disengaged, since I didn’t wish to rudely drive my means into the left lane or if no person let me in block the correct lane for somebody desirous to take a proper flip, so I turned proper and needed to reroute to the vacation spot.

The following 3 miles had been nice till

#3 — I wanted to be within the left lane to show into the restaurant. There was loads of time to get within the left lane, but it surely stayed within the middle lane too lengthy and missed the flip (as a result of there was a automotive in the way in which on the final minute).

#4 — On the way in which residence it was good all the way in which residence till I received to the neighborhood gate (which has induced 1000’s of disengagements). FSD must go inside 2 ft of the bar code reader in order that it let’s my automotive in. However it nonetheless goes 6 ft away, so I’ve to disengage.

#5 — It gained’t park in my storage.

So am I to consider that only one yr in the past this 10 mile journey would have had 500 disengagements? No means, perhaps it will have been 8 or 10, but it surely wasn’t that unhealthy a yr in the past. I took a 3000 mile journey from Tampa to Seattle with my son and used FSD many of the means. Possibly had 8 or 10 disengagements but additionally didn’t use it if it was a difficult space or in heavy snow.

So why am I not seeing 100 instances higher driving? Is it not skilled in Tampa? Is it not good on the 4 yr previous vehicles with the previous laptop? Or is it one thing extra nefarious, like they aren’t telling the reality?

This isn’t a cherry picked route. I drive throughout Tampa and that is about par for the course. I’ve had higher and worse drives. I additionally drive quite a bit in Denver once I go to my daughter (she has two Mannequin Y’s, a HW4 and a HW3). It’s perhaps a bit higher in Denver and perhaps a bit higher on HW4, however not 10 instances higher, perhaps 30% higher.

I don’t purchase the road that the software program is so good they need to drive many miles to discover a mistake. I don’t have any downside discovering points on each journey.

On most upgrades it has the identical points because the final launch. Possibly the turns might be a bit higher or velocity management might be barely higher. However lane choice and parking and unparking and my neighborhood gate have been damaged for six years. I’m to not fear as a result of it’s all going to be nice with V13 by the top of October. /s