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Just tried it myself. A couple of oddities but worked really well!
 

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I don't understand the mentality of "It's useless if I can't go to sleep" - I've driven 50k+ miles on FSD over the past three years and it has been so much fun, a massive stress reliever, and - since I've been daily driving my truck and not my 3 anymore - the number one thing I miss about that car.

If you've not used it, MAYBE I can understand why you're less than enthusiastic about it - but it's definitely a big deal. Also... we paid for the ability, so it's nice to have it rolling out finally
This is such a good point! You get to shift from tensing your muscles constantly to mediate the speed and direction of the vehicle to being the captain at the wheel; able to constantly scan 10, 20 seconds ahead of the vehicle and predict where it'll go and who'll cross your path.

It's doing the same, but it's also trying to tell you it's doing it... So it's twice the eyes on the road.

And if it deviates from the expected path, you just hit the brake or grip harder on the wheel. You can pre-position your foot on the brake instead of the go pedal. You can pay attention to the cars further around you instead of counting the second between traffic or the narrowness of the lane lines, and you have more time to notice discontinuities in the pavement.

All that means less stress on your body and less fatigue from the process of driving.

-Crissa
 

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This is such a good point! You get to shift from tensing your muscles constantly to mediate the speed and direction of the vehicle to being the captain at the wheel; able to constantly scan 10, 20 seconds ahead of the vehicle and predict where it'll go and who'll cross your path.

It's doing the same, but it's also trying to tell you it's doing it... So it's twice the eyes on the road.

And if it deviates from the expected path, you just hit the brake or grip harder on the wheel. You can pre-position your foot on the brake instead of the go pedal. You can pay attention to the cars further around you instead of counting the second between traffic or the narrowness of the lane lines, and you have more time to notice discontinuities in the pavement.

All that means less stress on your body and less fatigue from the process of driving.

-Crissa
That's how I've always driven. Scanning up and expecting someone to dart in the way. It's definitely a unique experience sitting behind a vehicle maneuvering itself. Something new to get used to now. I'm excited to see it in action in more scenarios that just a quick test run I did tonight.
 

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Roundabouts scare me. Truck comes in hot but so far the other cars have been exiting. Driving in front of a pedestrian busy grocery store had me worried so disengaged.

Who is going to be the first to tow with FSD!¿!
 


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One other cool thing it did was it stopped the CT in front of my gate. When I opened the gate, I tapped the accelerator and it continued on to my house. Pretty smart!
 


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Took a quick rural drive into town. I’ve got over 100k miles on Autopilot through FSD on our Model 3 HW3. So a veteran FSD driver. Only got to drive 12.5 this last weekend on the Model 3.

Overall, very good. Had some late vehicle crossing that it didn’t emergency brake for and didn’t need to (which is an improvement). Its stopped phantom braking for crossing roads. Its stopped trying pull into short turn shoulder passing lanes on a 2-lane road. Smooth and consistent and it actually slowed down for my small towns speed trap.

Most impressed that it did a 55-mph road to left hand turn onto my road with on-coming traffic and timed the braking / turn perfect, exactly like I would have. I’ve -never- had FSD make that turn before, without me taking over.

Zero interventions on a night time driveway-to-driveway trip that normally would have 12 consistent issues/disengagements with 12.3.

My morning commute is directly into the sun, so we will see how tomorrow goes. I’m really glad to have FSD on the truck finally.
 

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That's how I've always driven. Scanning up and expecting someone to dart in the way. It's definitely a unique experience sitting behind a vehicle maneuvering itself. Something new to get used to now. I'm excited to see it in action in more scenarios that just a quick test run I did tonight.
For me being able to look over your shoulder during rush hour traffic lane changes without worrying about the car in front slamming on the brakes is so much safer. And knowing it has a chance to see deer off to the side at dusk.
 
 








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