Stuck4ger
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I’m visiting friends in Mammoth Lakes, CA and drove them in the CT to Mono Lake for some sight seeing. They suggested taking the scenic loop back but we saw warning signs that it was closed. My buddy (who was in the drivers seat on FSD) suggested “let’s see what FSD does!” It drove up to just before the barricade and turned left onto a dirt road to a camping area. The nav route showed a path through the wilderness that eventually closed with his home. He remarked that there were fire roads that went through and was curious to see what the truck would do.
After a few hundred yards the nav showed it would do u-turn but it went past that spot and kept going. It got to a Y and took the opposite fork that the nav showed. Soon it was going up a moderate rocky trail that was not depicted on the map. We were out of cell phone with no updates yet it was still on FSD and totally using vision mode. It was steep enough that the tires were slipping a bit occasionally. It made a turn at the top of a spine where we visually couldn’t see what was next but the forward cam looked good so we allowed it to make the turn and then the trail took a steep descent and got much more rocky. He reactively applied the brakes and we decided to turn around.
He was floored that it had done so well picking its way through close brush, trees, and rocks and stated he was hesitant to drive it manually!
Anyway it was a very interesting data point. You don’t have FSD in off-road mode but you can go surprisingly far in comfort mode on FSD!
After a few hundred yards the nav showed it would do u-turn but it went past that spot and kept going. It got to a Y and took the opposite fork that the nav showed. Soon it was going up a moderate rocky trail that was not depicted on the map. We were out of cell phone with no updates yet it was still on FSD and totally using vision mode. It was steep enough that the tires were slipping a bit occasionally. It made a turn at the top of a spine where we visually couldn’t see what was next but the forward cam looked good so we allowed it to make the turn and then the trail took a steep descent and got much more rocky. He reactively applied the brakes and we decided to turn around.
He was floored that it had done so well picking its way through close brush, trees, and rocks and stated he was hesitant to drive it manually!
Anyway it was a very interesting data point. You don’t have FSD in off-road mode but you can go surprisingly far in comfort mode on FSD!
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