CyberTruck FSD 12.5.5 Reviews

[WichitaDad]

Can you change how aggressively it performs in FSD?

I have not seen this feature. I'm not sure if the truck is learning, but it seems to be smoothing out on it's follow-aggressiveness.

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[WichitaDad]

Is there a way to communicate these issues to Tesla when you can't do it when you intervene? I suppose I could try the stop signs and intervene and then report it.

I have not seeing this feature. But, the system appears to be improving on my route, and on my drives. I'm not sure how the system learns/updates, but my driveway is narrow and a bit hidden at the entrance. FSD has learned, first of all, where to enter my driveway, and secondly, how to enter without hitting the gate.

It's not perfect yet, but it does seem to be improving week by week by usage, rather than clicking the mic button to record why you intervened.

 

[cyberHoward]

My CT will never go up my driveway or any driveway and still is way over turning left entering the left lane sometimes in the middle of the lane if it is a 90 degree turn. If there is less than 90 it seems to do much better.

 

[WichitaDad]

My CT will never go up my driveway or any driveway and still is way over turning left entering the left lane sometimes in the middle of the lane if it is a 90 degree turn. If there is less than 90 it seems to do much better.

Interesting. So, to give you background, my driveway is about 600ft long. At first, FSD didn't even take me to the front of my driveway. As I kept navigating home and then taking over, eventually, FSD seemed to learn where the entrance to my house was. Now that I have FSD on the truck, it didn't need to re-learn the correct entrance point.

Alternatively, the approach angle that my S takes vs what my truck takes are different. The truck has a good approach angle, but the S now struggles with it.

Either way, I see FSD as constantly improving... I'm a big fan of it... so glad I got it.

Now I just need more cupholders.

 

[SCTesla]

Is there a way to communicate these issues to Tesla when you can't do it when you intervene? I suppose I could try the stop signs and intervene and then report it.

Voice report is the only way. Any disengagement is tagged as well.

 

[SCTesla]

I have not seeing this feature. But, the system appears to be improving on my route, and on my drives. I'm not sure how the system learns/updates, but my driveway is narrow and a bit hidden at the entrance. FSD has learned, first of all, where to enter my driveway, and secondly, how to enter without hitting the gate.

It's not perfect yet, but it does seem to be improving week by week by usage, rather than clicking the mic button to record why you intervened.

There's no local learning on your truck, zero. This has been stated by the company many times.

What you are experiencing is likely the progressive calibration of the cameras or navigation info sent to the servers, but your truck isn't learning your driveway.

 

[cyberHoward]

Is there a possibility that the oversteering into the left-hand lane when turning left is a calibration problem and is there something I should do to try and "re-calibrate" my cameras? Last night for the first time I had a phantom stop at left-hand turn to cross a highway to get on a entrance ramp with a left turn arrow and the straight through light both being green. It was at midnight so it did not see traffic or anything else.

 

[Alto]

my FSD works perfectly fine, I don’t know what these people are bitching about. But I’m looking for all the updates.

I remain impressed. Sometimes I take over, to swerve around debris in the vehicle path or adjust for other cars that have strayed from their lane..

In an airplane control buttons are placed where you can activate them without moving your hands position on the yoke/stick. With my hands on the squarkle at 3 & 9 O’clock position I’ve got to move my hand to depress the disengagement button. This might have been positioned differently to better advantage.

I note that if I press and let the disengagement button spring back, it disengages steering and de-accelerates as if your foot was taken off the throttle pedal, but if I press the button and don’t release it, only steering disengages and speed is maintained until you remove pressure from the button.. Is this nominal behavior in disengagement?

 

[CyberTahoe]

Lane keeping: As others have mentioned, FSD seems to like to hug the inner or outer lane line depending on the situation, this is fine if there's no traffic, but has happened often with traffic approaching from the lane the truck was nearing

Turns/Roundabouts: About half the time the truck makes turns appropriately and cruises through roundabouts without issue. The other half it undercuts turns or hesitates through roundabouts, often resulting in a jerky steering input to avoid a curb or in some cases, the truck coming to a stop in the roundabout.

Speed: looking forward to the changes to auto max speed other cars have gotten. While letting FSD determine the best speed makes some sense, it doesn't work well in practice. On the freeway I'll give an accelerator push to ~70mph where it will stay for a bit before slowing down gradually. On the other hand if its driving through a 45mph zone at 50mph, and the speed limit decreases, the truck is reluctant to go any slower and will continue way too fast even if the speed limit drops down to 25.

Following Distance/Traffic Awareness: While following closely is necessary in certain scenarios, it does so too often in my experience. Moreover, the truck doesn't seem to take into consideration slowed traffic further ahead all the time and will keep too high of speed and too close of following distance heading toward stopped traffic which is unnerving and often results in brake usage instead of regen.

Intersections: While FSD handles typical intersections well (though the fact it has to come to a complete stop can be confusing to others), there have been several cases of poor visibility intersections that it just sends it through after stopping instead of creeping for visibility first. It could also use some improvements in coming to the complete stop and continuing more smoothly.

Overall it's still very impressive, I suspect/hope many of these issues will be addressed in the very next FSD update. It has already made a recent 7+ hour road trip far more enjoyable, and in certain cases, has been more accurate navigating unfamiliar areas than I would have on my own.

 

[cyberHoward]

Lane keeping: As others have mentioned, FSD seems to like to hug the inner or outer lane line depending on the situation, this is fine if there's no traffic, but has happened often with traffic approaching from the lane the truck was nearing

Turns/Roundabouts: About half the time the truck makes turns appropriately and cruises through roundabouts without issue. The other half it undercuts turns or hesitates through roundabouts, often resulting in a jerky steering input to avoid a curb or in some cases, the truck coming to a stop in the roundabout.

Speed: looking forward to the changes to auto max speed other cars have gotten. While letting FSD determine the best speed makes some sense, it doesn't work well in practice. On the freeway I'll give an accelerator push to ~70mph where it will stay for a bit before slowing down gradually. On the other hand if its driving through a 45mph zone at 50mph, and the speed limit decreases, the truck is reluctant to go any slower and will continue way too fast even if the speed limit drops down to 25.

Following Distance/Traffic Awareness: While following closely is necessary in certain scenarios, it does so too often in my experience. Moreover, the truck doesn't seem to take into consideration slowed traffic further ahead all the time and will keep too high of speed and too close of following distance heading toward stopped traffic which is unnerving and often results in brake usage instead of regen.

Intersections: While FSD handles typical intersections well (though the fact it has to come to a complete stop can be confusing to others), there have been several cases of poor visibility intersections that it just sends it through after stopping instead of creeping for visibility first. It could also use some improvements in coming to the complete stop and continuing more smoothly.

Overall it's still very impressive, I suspect/hope many of these issues will be addressed in the very next FSD update. It has already made a recent 7+ hour road trip far more enjoyable, and in certain cases, has been more accurate navigating unfamiliar areas than I would have on my own.

I agree with your assessment. I would add that I have very hard stops at certain stop signs in my normal route like it did not notice the sign and can't find the white stop line that doesn't exist so it slams on the brakes. I have at least two of these stop signs in my route. My CT steers over the double line or no line center or left of center very often on left turns and has even had me halfway into the left lane with oncoming traffic. When no lines it is left of center for 20-30 feet or more. I also have some right turns where it wants to take it sharp and then wiggles left to avoid a street edge or curb. I can repeat on my normal route at two different right turns. Both the model Y and CT get off at exits and swing all the way right to be close to the white right line (exit ramp at that point may be 30 feet wide) only to swerve back to the middle in 20 feet or so like it is drunk. It is a big swing back and forth. That is pretty uncomfortable. The Model Y has 12.5.4.1 and has several abrupt slowdowns fairly often that I don't feel in the CT FSD. The automated speed control would be better if you could set a maximum ratio and be able to dial it back from the steering wheel. It was doing 12 offer the speed limit in a 35 once and was doing 35 in a school zone which I know it can't detect yet, but a quick scroll down on the steering wheel would allow me not to have to disengage the FSD. It appears the Model Y allows for this adjustment in the version it is on. On a positive note everyone thinks it is spooky how human like it drives and it's ability to pass on the highway or move around service vehicles or cones is perfect. The model Y does not seem to creep out as well as the CT does I. My opinion.

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