TexasDev
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The adventure of picking up my CyberBeast
After the cool red carpet and light show experience picking it up, my wife and I decide to drive from Dallas to Colorado to test it out.
The experience was fantastic overall, with a few pain points. I was going to write this as a story, but I'm a programmer and I hate writing, so bullet points it is.
I'm listing the cons only, as I'd like to give blanket praise otherwise. When the below things don't happen it's magical and perfect. These are my ONLY criticisms.
1. Air suspension
This was the only problem with the car itself. About the time we were leaving Texas, I get a notification that the air suspension is disabled and "may" be available next drive. A subsequent error appeared that the ride quality may be degraded. It was a bit bumpier but not a blocker. However the consistent beeping was more uncomfortable than the ride quality (even in joe mode). It would go away for a bit and come back. When getting to the closest supercharger I went to controls and held down the brake pedal as instructed and it "fixed" it. But shortly after leaving the charger it was back. This persisted until we got back to Texas and have had no issues since.
Will be reporting it to SC to see if they can fix it, maybe the elevation change?
2. Pot-hole avoidance
This was the biggest problem with FSD. Several things set this off and it resulted in dangerous swerving, or at the very least looking stupid. Tar patches in the road would set it off, as would tire marks. Sometimes it would perform wild manuevers trying to avoid them when the proper course is straight. It did work with potholes, but those were rare, mainly there were tar strips and it was all over the place. I'd like that to be an option until they can recognize those patterns.
3. Speed limit signs
Normally this worked well, but sometimes it wouldn't pick up on signs. It would miss a 70 so it still thought it was 55. Bumping up to "Hurry" was a temp fix. Sometimes they were recognized in the visuals but speed still did not increase/decrease.
I found dialing down to "Chill" when entering towns would respect speed limits the most and was necessary in those small Texas towns that are waiting to give you a ticket. Even chill would miss some signs once or twice though.
4. Passing lanes
There was an annoying problem with FSD when coming to the end of the passing lane and merging. The car would see the merge arrow that the right lane was ending, it would merge to the left, then merge back over to the right, then merge back to the left when the lane fully ended. This was pretty intense swerving. I found if I switch to "Chill" mode before the merge arrow was seen, it would work properly. But lane changes were fighting the merge in every higher mode.
5. Parking
This was the minor problem with FSD but annoying. There were several parking lots where it freaked out. Including at superchargers.
- The first was at our hotel, there was a large cement structure in the middle of the parking lot. FSD pulled in and then headed straight for the structure, the wheel going left and right rapidly as if trying to decide which way to go but fighting itself so it went straight. I applied the brakes before it got to close, not sure if it would have stopped or not.
- The second was at a supercharger, very embarassing. It pulls in to the truck stop, but instead of going around to the chargers, it starts to turn into the gas pumps! As soon as it put the left blinker on and turned left I stopped it, headed straight then right and manually parked to charge.
- The third was at another supercharger, it parked in between two chargers, neither one even remotely close to the port. I had to manually park it which took three attempts because the cable was so short.
- The fourth was at Hooters, it pulled in to park, then it decided to park in the front, in a very small space between two cars, the entire other parking lot was empty. I let it go to see what would happen, and it put me in a 6 point turn I had to get out of manually, basically in between the entrance of the building and the cars. Very embarassing. I felt like the Austin Powers meme getting out of that. Would love a preference to park in the back for new places.
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Overall it made the trip so much easier, loved how it handled Dallas roads, the mountains, and bumpy back roads. I was much less stressed than driving manually, but there's still some work to be done. Wife was mostly impressed, wish she didn't experience the embarassing moments as I'm not sure how on board she is with the purchase in the first place lol.
After the cool red carpet and light show experience picking it up, my wife and I decide to drive from Dallas to Colorado to test it out.
The experience was fantastic overall, with a few pain points. I was going to write this as a story, but I'm a programmer and I hate writing, so bullet points it is.
I'm listing the cons only, as I'd like to give blanket praise otherwise. When the below things don't happen it's magical and perfect. These are my ONLY criticisms.
1. Air suspension
This was the only problem with the car itself. About the time we were leaving Texas, I get a notification that the air suspension is disabled and "may" be available next drive. A subsequent error appeared that the ride quality may be degraded. It was a bit bumpier but not a blocker. However the consistent beeping was more uncomfortable than the ride quality (even in joe mode). It would go away for a bit and come back. When getting to the closest supercharger I went to controls and held down the brake pedal as instructed and it "fixed" it. But shortly after leaving the charger it was back. This persisted until we got back to Texas and have had no issues since.
Will be reporting it to SC to see if they can fix it, maybe the elevation change?
2. Pot-hole avoidance
This was the biggest problem with FSD. Several things set this off and it resulted in dangerous swerving, or at the very least looking stupid. Tar patches in the road would set it off, as would tire marks. Sometimes it would perform wild manuevers trying to avoid them when the proper course is straight. It did work with potholes, but those were rare, mainly there were tar strips and it was all over the place. I'd like that to be an option until they can recognize those patterns.
3. Speed limit signs
Normally this worked well, but sometimes it wouldn't pick up on signs. It would miss a 70 so it still thought it was 55. Bumping up to "Hurry" was a temp fix. Sometimes they were recognized in the visuals but speed still did not increase/decrease.
I found dialing down to "Chill" when entering towns would respect speed limits the most and was necessary in those small Texas towns that are waiting to give you a ticket. Even chill would miss some signs once or twice though.
4. Passing lanes
There was an annoying problem with FSD when coming to the end of the passing lane and merging. The car would see the merge arrow that the right lane was ending, it would merge to the left, then merge back over to the right, then merge back to the left when the lane fully ended. This was pretty intense swerving. I found if I switch to "Chill" mode before the merge arrow was seen, it would work properly. But lane changes were fighting the merge in every higher mode.
5. Parking
This was the minor problem with FSD but annoying. There were several parking lots where it freaked out. Including at superchargers.
- The first was at our hotel, there was a large cement structure in the middle of the parking lot. FSD pulled in and then headed straight for the structure, the wheel going left and right rapidly as if trying to decide which way to go but fighting itself so it went straight. I applied the brakes before it got to close, not sure if it would have stopped or not.
- The second was at a supercharger, very embarassing. It pulls in to the truck stop, but instead of going around to the chargers, it starts to turn into the gas pumps! As soon as it put the left blinker on and turned left I stopped it, headed straight then right and manually parked to charge.
- The third was at another supercharger, it parked in between two chargers, neither one even remotely close to the port. I had to manually park it which took three attempts because the cable was so short.
- The fourth was at Hooters, it pulled in to park, then it decided to park in the front, in a very small space between two cars, the entire other parking lot was empty. I let it go to see what would happen, and it put me in a 6 point turn I had to get out of manually, basically in between the entrance of the building and the cars. Very embarassing. I felt like the Austin Powers meme getting out of that. Would love a preference to park in the back for new places.
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Overall it made the trip so much easier, loved how it handled Dallas roads, the mountains, and bumpy back roads. I was much less stressed than driving manually, but there's still some work to be done. Wife was mostly impressed, wish she didn't experience the embarassing moments as I'm not sure how on board she is with the purchase in the first place lol.
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