Tesla Full Self Driving Thread
Ok I'm again glad that you are concerned, and you cleared that part up, FSD forces you to be attentive. Relaxed, but your eyes still have to be on the road. If I look down for more than 5 seconds, I get an alert, and it gets more annoying if you ignore it. Same if I close my eyes. On certain stretches of road, like mountain roads, it will force you to more attentive, and if there is any visual impairment like bad fog or other bad weather, it will slow down to a very low speed and even force you to take control. So there is no way to get around this.
Yes I am sometimes too relaxed and in my own world, and I agree until it reaches the so called "100 percent" (there will never be a 100 percent) I should be more vigilant. Now as far as dangerous mistakes, in my case it hasn't made any in the last two months I've used it. Doesn't mean it won't, but hasn't yet. Last big mistake it made on an older version was changing lanes near an upcoming right turn trying to get around slower cars, missed the right turn and had to go left instead, making me lose 10 minutes. Never did it again
Yes I am sometimes too relaxed and in my own world, and I agree until it reaches the so called "100 percent" (there will never be a 100 percent) I should be more vigilant. Now as far as dangerous mistakes, in my case it hasn't made any in the last two months I've used it. Doesn't mean it won't, but hasn't yet. Last big mistake it made on an older version was changing lanes near an upcoming right turn trying to get around slower cars, missed the right turn and had to go left instead, making me lose 10 minutes. Never did it again
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Appreciate the response and agree with everything you said here. I can easily see how FSD makes you feel safe after so many miles too, making it difficult to be as attentive like actual driving. I love driving but I can see and hope for a future of every car on the road being one that self drives. The number of lives saved would make me easily give up driving.(Hopefully a track near by I could still drive around myself). The comfort of my kid going out with friends and not having to worry about themselves or a friend driving would be great.
I still love to drive myself, that's something I hopefully will not give up for many years to come. FSD is a tool, and I can hand over when I don't feel like driving. I've used it more recently because of a trip, had time left on it, then a free trial so am just taking advantage of it. Once it ends, I wouldn't subscribe to it until my next trip. Driving to SoCal can be tedious, and FSD makes it less so, especially the last couple of hours where lm tired. As far as love of driving, I'm in that camp, although as I'm getting older, FSD will definitely come in handy. And by then it should be more refined
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As others have said, the version you had was older and less mature. With the latest v14.xx you no longer need to touch the wheel, unless it thinks you aren't paying attention.
The M3 you were driving behind seems like it was being manually driven. FSD does not have one sit in the left lane on a highway. It may stay there awhile while passing slower vehicles, and if someone comes up at a higher rate of speed, it will get over when safe to do so. It doesn't speed up to get out of the way. Also, there is no speed you can set FSD to. You set modes which can range from going roughly the speed limit to about 20 over. I choose Hurry to go with the flow.
I'm betting that about 1 in 10-20 are using FSD, if that.
The M3 you were driving behind seems like it was being manually driven. FSD does not have one sit in the left lane on a highway. It may stay there awhile while passing slower vehicles, and if someone comes up at a higher rate of speed, it will get over when safe to do so. It doesn't speed up to get out of the way. Also, there is no speed you can set FSD to. You set modes which can range from going roughly the speed limit to about 20 over. I choose Hurry to go with the flow.
I'm betting that about 1 in 10-20 are using FSD, if that.
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It’s ok for one to own Tesla and not subscribe to FSD right?
If you’re tired and eyes get heavy, you still can’t close them while using FSD right? If you can, let me head to the nearest Tesla dealership!!🛌
FYI, I’m not knocking FSD. It was pretty cool the short time I used it. Perfect? No. Cool? Yes. I will tell you what I’ve heard someone mention, it could come in handy if someone had 1 too many 🍻 and wanted to get home…granted they can keep their 👀 on the road.
So there’s a chance that model 3 was camping in the left lane riding alongside the car in the right lane while a train was forming in the left lane. Then like I mentioned it sped up got over in the right lane and immediately applied the brakes as it seem like it getting back down to the max speed. 
Then again, maybe the driver was actually driving like that
FYI, I’m not knocking FSD. It was pretty cool the short time I used it. Perfect? No. Cool? Yes. I will tell you what I’ve heard someone mention, it could come in handy if someone had 1 too many 🍻 and wanted to get home…granted they can keep their 👀 on the road.
The hanging out in the left lane is different from my recent experience. It would pass someone on a two lane highway and sometimes just camp there even with no one around. I leave it just to watch and I’m like get the F over, no reason to camp there. Then it finally gets over when someone come flying up behind me and I’m like WTF is it going. Doesn’t happen all of the time but a few times.
Then again, maybe the driver was actually driving like that
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So there’s a chance that model 3 was camping in the left lane riding alongside the car in the right lane while a train was forming in the left lane. Then like I mentioned it sped up got over in the right lane and immediately applied the brakes as it seem like it getting back down to the max speed.
Then again, maybe the driver was actually driving like that
Then again, maybe the driver was actually driving like that
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I noticed this too, but I actually think it's good, otherwise in the large city I live in, everyone's gonna cut in front of you!
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I've noticed this as well, but I think as mentioned it's to keep cars from cutting in front, which was happening a lot when the gap was bigger
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