Completed 236 mile camping trip with FSD in Cybertruck - not bad compared to our Model Y w/ FSD

[Cactusrick]

A quick trip review of CyberBeast with FSD compared to our MYLR with FSD.

Love it. Got the FSD update Tuesday morning right before a planned camping trip. Works good but still in an early stage of learning. It made the trip relaxing and FSD was on 95% of the time. We were going up steep mountain grades with 3 E-bikes in the back and Tonneau cover open.

FSD made one weird mistake on a 25 mph back road. There was an unusual amount of sun and thick shaded spots on the road and it signaled right and wanted to turn off where there wasn't a road.

Overall disengagements were few and it drove impressively well on the divided highway with many sharp turns and steep grades taking 45 mph turns at 60 with no problems.

Love my Beast....

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[Cyber_P]

It's been great for me to and from work... To a point. Twice it tried to merge into the incoming merging lane... Once it abruptly slowed thinking the merge lane needed to be aggressively let in. Luckily I hit the gas or the guy behind me would have been a bit miffed at that spot.

Another time it abruptly tried to slow and change lanes in an intersection due to a car turning on red. Almost as if it saw the merging car as a threat.

Otherwise it's been great. Avoiding joggers and parked cars. It does go 50 in a 55 with almost no traffic in the AM. If I hit the gas it learns the new speed and hangs around there at least.

 

[Guylouis]

My only complaint is it likes to hug the left side of the lane too much for comfort.

 

[cardad]

My only complaint is it likes to hug the left side of the lane too much for comfort.

Yeah that is a general problem with these systems in that it has a directive to 1) stay in the lane and 2) avoid vehicles and because of #1 if it perceives an oncoming vehicle being in your lane it brakes rather than swerves. Normal driving behavior would be to cross or move over the right line to maintain a margin of safety and these systems don’t seem to fully allow that.

 

[getsometom]

I'm looking forward to more long distance trips in the CT with FSD in hopes it will make things go easier and myself less tired after arriving at different destinations.

I've noticed FSD doesn't handle road construction well especially when there are vehicles in front with light-up arrows for required lane changes.

 

[Ljhughes8]

It been good for my trip the only thing is it doesn't activate the visual screen can't think of the name maps doesn't go away.

 

[Gundo]

I really like the lane change on signal. Had FSD in our Model Y and it didn’t do that, in fact it just disengaged on signal.
Super smooth and steer by wire seems to make everything so much better.

 

[SCTesla]

I really like the lane change on signal. Had FSD in our Model Y and it didn’t do that, in fact it just disengaged on signal.
Super smooth and steer by wire seems to make everything so much better.

Autopilot will disengage on turn signals, FSD never has since I've had it with 10.3 on MY, M3, MS.

 

[hridge2020]

Everyone using FSD - Be sure to keep all cameras clean as much as possible for optimum clarity for vision awareness.

 

[bg002h]

My only complaint is it likes to hug the left side of the lane too much for comfort.

Agreed. In my town in the desert, the roads are very wide to act as rain drainage…we put our manhole covers deep and near center of the road where nobody but a CT FSD would drive and it hits each manhole cover like a pothole.

Very impressed with FSD in town and on highway. Struggles when going into the sun at sundown. Or if too much sun is on the face, it can’t verify you are paying attention.

 

[mhaze]

Agreed. In my town in the desert, the roads are very wide to act as rain drainage…we put our manhole covers deep and near center of the road where nobody but a CT FSD would drive and it hits each manhole cover like a pothole.

Very impressed with FSD in town and on highway. Struggles when going into the sun at sundown. Or if too much sun is on the face, it can’t verify you are paying attention.

Little problem there? We need this FSD to watch the ROAD, not the DRIVERS and PASSENGERS.

No it's not doing great if it slams on the brakes in the middle of traffic when it's confused by has a perfect record of watching you.

 

[bg002h]

Little problem there? We need this FSD to watch the ROAD, not the DRIVERS and PASSENGERS.

No it's not doing great if it slams on the brakes in the middle of traffic when it's confused by has a perfect record of watching you.

has that happened to you? I haven’t had anything bad happen in my sub-300 miles of use, but it’s early days. I may eventually experience something bad too. I guess my expectations were low going in to this…

I have had what I thought was unusual behavior with regular cruise control before the FSD update. I didn’t realize the navigation was on auto and trying to take me to work when I was going elsewhere, and periodically the car would try to stop or turn unexpectedly. But it was just trying to follow the nav…

 

[mhaze]

has that happened to you? I haven’t had anything bad happen in my sub-300 miles of use, but it’s early days. I may eventually experience something bad too. I guess my expectations were low going in to this…

I have had what I thought was unusual behavior with regular cruise control before the FSD update. I didn’t realize the navigation was on auto and trying to take me to work when I was going elsewhere, and periodically the car would try to stop or turn unexpectedly. But it was just trying to follow the nav…

Yes. Always be alert for FSD errors - think of it as a teenager you are teaching to drive.

I could explain the specifics of the two cases where it slammed on the brakes, but the next case is likely to be totally unrelated, so it is better to stick with let's say, the attitude of an airplane pilot using a good autopilot. Fully use the systems to lower your workload, but always be ready to take over.

 

[bg002h]

Yes. Always be alert for FSD errors - think of it as a teenager you are teaching to drive.

I could explain the specifics of the two cases where it slammed on the brakes, but the next case is likely to be totally unrelated, so it is better to stick with let's say, the attitude of an airplane pilot using a good autopilot. Fully use the systems to lower your workload, but always be ready to take over.

Bingo. Accident avoidance is much harder to train for than how to drive in optimal circumstances. Even if everything seems great, that’s not a good indicator of risk. Safety is all about the rare events, not the common ones.

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