- A one-way or two-way stop signs, FSD (Beta) creeps forward so slowly that it’s not useful for normal driving.
- a little pressure on the accelerator solves the problem.
- Phantom braking is worse with FSD (Beta) than it is with standard smart cruise control.
Tesla has introduced a better version of Full Self-Driving, the Full Self-Driving (BETA) with new software updates. As per an article sourced by Clean Technica.
Using FSD
using Full Self-Driving (Beta) both for local and long-distance driving — virtually all the time. You will often repeatedly push the software to the limit when you know it would be too slow for a regular driver or where it has failed previously. As time goes on, you will continually observe new behaviour.
When is FSD (Beta) Too Slow?
At one-way or two-way stop signs, FSD (Beta) creeps forward so slowly that it’s not useful for normal driving. However, if you signal it to proceed with the accelerator, it will proceed straight ahead or steer the turn correctly, depending on your route. FSD (Beta) stops at the entry to a rotary even when no cars are present.
Again, a little pressure on the accelerator solves the problem. Ironically, the behavior at a 4-way stop is generally better and it proceeds more quickly. this might be because it doesn’t have to look out for cross traffic.
Phantom Braking
You can be driving on perfectly clear roadway and FSD (Beta) will occasionally do regenerative (mild) braking for no apparent reason. Sometimes on the Interstate you will get this mild braking for a large vehicle approaching or a large vehicle or trailer parked near your lane.
Phantom braking is worse with FSD (Beta) than it is with standard smart cruise control. assuming this is because the software is now looking for more things in your lane and it misidentifies some objects.
When Do you Turn Off FSD?
Notice it is said FSD, not FSD (Beta). On limited access roads, FSD will pass slower-moving vehicles and make automatic lane changes. FSD will almost always change lanes promptly for a slow-moving vehicle. However, it does not reliably exit the passing lane even when specified in the settings. FSD will also make frequent lane changes on multilane freeways for no scrutable reason. For this reason, you might usually turn off Auto Navigation on multilane freeways and make the turns semi-manually. You may use the turn signal to initiate the turn because you may know that with multiple cameras, it knows better when it is safe to change lanes.
When Do You Turn Off FSD (Beta)?
You turn off FSD (Beta) when making a turn or crossing a road with high traffic where there is no traffic light. Afterwards, you immediately turn FSD (Beta) back on again.
Where Does FSD (Beta) Fail Completely?
These failures are consistent, so you know when to disable the software and drive manually. Some may be caused by errors in the database.
- At some stop signs, it will stop 10 or 15 feet too early. (This may have improved slightly since V10.5.)
- There is a one-stop sign turning from 1650 W onto Snow Canyon Parkway in Saint George, Utah, where FSD (Beta) will always run the stop sign. Oh my! Note: this is the only stop sign where I have seen this behaviour.
- Right Lane Bias: Exiting from I-15 at 1600 N in Orem, Utah, 1600 N street narrows from two lanes to one lane at a stoplight. FSD (Beta) will consistently not just fail to make the merge but will actively put the car in the wrong (righthand) lane. Recently, I saw the same behaviour in another location.
- Right Lane Bias: When making a turn or going across an intersection, your car will sometimes turn into a bike lane or other wide lane on the right. It will find the correct land after ~50 ft.
- Right Side Bias: Particularly on a freeway merge when the lane is still double-width, your car will cling to the white line on the right. This is unnerving because a normal driver will tend toward the left hand dotted white line where you need to be when the merge is complete. Note: This also occurs with regular Tesla Autosteer.
- Parking Lot Behavior: You can engage FSD (Beta) in the Walmart or UPS parking lot, but good luck having it actually find its way out. In tight quarters, the steering wheel will jiggle and jerk like a Nervous Nellie and it’s as likely to find its way into a blind corner as it finds its way out.
Improvements Going from V10.5 to V10.8 to V10.10
One of the great things about Tesla is that you get over-the-air software updates as frequently as once every two weeks. You may have seen several significant improvements in the 2 years and 4 months (and over 60,000 miles) in Model 3. With FSD (Beta), one hopes that regular updates will fix problems, and we can dream that Elon Musk is correct and that we are on a path sooner rather than later to full Level 5 autonomy that is safer than human drivers and doesn’t need to be monitored.
Reading the release notes for V10.10, it lists 8 areas that have been improved and gives the percentage of improvement to be expected. It is a must say that there have been little improvement from V10.5 to V10.10 in the things that are most important. The one significant improvement area is that it no longer brakes for cross traffic that will be gone before you reach the spot.
Can You Report Bad Behavior to Tesla?
There is a small camera icon at the top of the screen. If you have a situation where the software fails consistently, you can push the ikon and send a short video clip from the cameras to Tesla. I have done this a few times but have seen no change in behaviour. In other cases, with traffic, you are so busy intervening you don’t have time to push on the camera icon.
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Source: Clean Technica
