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Surprisingly short video from OOS. More of an interview with a Tesla owner on 14.2 that did a 5 week trip across the country (10K miles) on basically all FSD.
My DSD trial period is up next week. I logged 1,000 DSD miles in a month and all in all it worked great. There were several mistakes but no one said it was going to be perfect or drive like a human and it will get better.
Last weekend a friend of mine got into a bad car accident after we left our kids hockey game and he got T-bone and flipped the car twice. Luckily no injuries but I was thinking had he had FSD I bet he wouldn’t have gotten in the accident.
My DSD trial period is up next week. I logged 1,000 DSD miles in a month and all in all it worked great. There were several mistakes but no one said it was going to be perfect or drive like a human and it will get better.
Last weekend a friend of mine got into a bad car accident after we left our kids hockey game and he got T-bone and flipped the car twice. Luckily no injuries but I was thinking had he had FSD I bet he wouldn’t have gotten in the accident.
Hey man, sorry about your friend, hopefully he came out of it OK.
As I mentioned in my Model 3 thread, there was a 3 or 4 car pile up on my way home from Southern Cal, the chain reaction was at least 15 or 20 cars ahead, FSD spotted it in real time and took action, even avoiding the people behind me who were driving much to fast. I was busy at the time listening to a podcast not even really paying attention and didn't realize what was going on until it all happened. Not only was the accident proactively avoided, but we were able to get around before the highway came to a complete stop (it was a two lane highway).
Now the question I have is, what if FSD avoids a really bad accident and keeps going when maybe a person driving would pull over and assist in a bad situation possibly saving lives. Maybe if the accident was bad enough, FSD would pull over. This was just fender bender type accident
It seems that v14 has resolved the issue with me wearing sunglasses and requiring every 10 minute steering wheel tugs. I totally forgot about that until I was almost at my destination 2 hours later.
I did have another glitch with it taking a wrong turn and costing me a 10 minute U-turn. It showed me needing to take the left fork to head North, but waited too long and when it put on the signal, we were already at the solid white line. I'm guessing that's why it suddenly changed from signaling left, to signaling right and heading South for 5 miles until there was an exit where it could turn around. I guess I'm a bad "supervisor", as I just sat there and watched it unfold.
Just had an overnight demo test drive of a Juniper Y LR.
One of my main reasons for trying the car was to test Full Self-Driving, and this vehicle was running FSD version 14.2.2.2 on Hardware 4 ofcourse. Early on, I noticed something odd: the navigation consistently avoided highways. At first, I assumed I was missing something, but after repeating this on three separate short trips—and verifying the routes against Google Maps—it became clear that the car was deliberately routing around highways. It got frustrating enough that I eventually turned FSD off, drove manually to the highway, and then re-enabled it.
I’m assuming this is a software bug, and from what I’ve seen, others have noticed it too. Another observation came while using FSD on side streets during snowfall. I initially had the system set to Hurry mode, and there were moments—especially on curves or tighter roads—where the speed felt a bit uncomfortable for the conditions. To be clear, that doesn’t necessarily mean the car couldn’t handle it, but it was faster than I would have driven in those conditions. I ended up adjusting the driver speed profile up/down when needed, which worked well. Once I got used to managing that, the experience improved significantly. It’s also worth noting the car was not on winter tires, which definitely factored into my caution.
Overall, though, FSD performed impressively. The software has come a long way—even compared to just a couple of months ago when I tested it on another Tesla. Despite the highway navigation issue, I was genuinely impressed with how capable and confident the system felt.
So it looks like with the rainy weather and the latest update, as well as cleaning of the front camera I'm getting a lot of messages about dirty right and left camera's. Doesn't seem to affect FSD functionality and the errors messages don't get in the way, but this is new. I'll clean the camera's when I get a chance and see if this continues
