How often do you use FSD?

[CyberGus]

It's also been a relief to let it drive after a recent shoulder injury.

Get well soon!

I adopted a puppy, and then another one. They got along great, until they didn't, and one day were trying to kill each other. I couldn't get them separated since each one was latched onto the others' hide. So I put one hand in one mouth, one hand in the other mouth, and pulled them apart with all my might. The dogs had minor injuries, and I had a torn rotator cuff.

That was 20 years ago, but I'd recently been doing some heavy lifting and aggravated it. The sharp pain prevents me from extending my right arm in front of me, as one would when holding a steering wheel.

So, very grateful for FSD, but I still can't use the touchscreen lol

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[pgetty99]

Now with V13, I use it for 95% of my daily commutes. Absolutely amazing tech.

 

[pookie]

In speaking with a Tesla rep during a recent service center visit, I learned that FSD can be bought at any time after purchasing a Cybertruck. With an $8k price tag, it definitely adds lot to the final price of the vehicle. How often do you use FSD? 1-10, mostly never to every time you drive.

Autopilot seems to work just fine for the use case of keeping one's lane and reducing driving fatigue on the highway. Wondering what the community's thoughts were.

99% of all miles. Since version 13 it’s arguably better than most drivers and improving exponentially. Subscribe for a month or two and only buy it outright if you plan to keep the truck 7+ years. Prices may also increase in the future which is an argument for buying outright.

 

[quirosj]

Over ninety percent of my driving time includung evenings, rain, bad weather, and other conditions.

 

[BillyGee]

In speaking with a Tesla rep during a recent service center visit, I learned that FSD can be bought at any time after purchasing a Cybertruck. With an $8k price tag, it definitely adds lot to the final price of the vehicle. How often do you use FSD? 1-10, mostly never to every time you drive.

Autopilot seems to work just fine for the use case of keeping one's lane and reducing driving fatigue on the highway. Wondering what the community's thoughts were.

It's more rare that we actually driving anymore. It's gotten so good that I just watch it work.

 

[CybertruckRN1127]

I use it a few times each drive, but I disengage a lot because I don’t like its lane selections or slowness.

For example:

1) Doing 75mph it will try to get behind a truck doing 55mph a mile before the exit when there are no cars in front of the truck.
2) It will change lanes to an empty lane on the right that is about to end in 1/8 mile.
3) Often on old/small highways, it will do like 45 in a 55mph zone when other cars are doing 60-65mph.
4) Then sometimes it doesn’t know what it needs to do or be when a lane splits especially if it’s a carpool lane.

I prefer the old EAP.

 

[AO-Pete]

I'm the same, I try it most drives, but quickly getting annoyed by how it behaves. I'll also say that I find the M3 FSD generally better than the CT; not sure why, and version numbers are close enough, but the M3 set to 'hurry' mode takes no prisoners, but gets the job done well. The CT still makes odd decisions, either speed-wise, or unnecessary lane changes.

Have a road trip coming up next week, the first since v13, so I expect it to be of much more benefit then, rather than my regular commute, which I could do in my sleep, so I suspect I'm more critical of how the CT handles it.

 

[Cybertruck26]

I just drove to Tahoe from the South Bay, the whole way on FSD... it did absolutely incredible. The only issue i had was with the random 1 mile passing lanes and people trying to fly by, the truck really seemed to have trouble gauging those cars before the lane ended. Other than that, it performed remarkably.

Fyi: i am running
v12 (2024.45.25.15 2409d648f093)

 

[AO-Pete]

I really wish Tesla would re-add the rolling stop feature. I know the NTSB made them remove it (maybe that'll change with the new administration??), but my commute has maybe 15 stop signs, and it's really tedious, extremely rare anyone else is at the stop the same time I am, and even if there is, nobody comes to a full stop. This is probably the most annoying thing when driving city streets.

 

[Cybergirl]

It would be unusual for me not to use FSD.

 

[OldDirtyRobot]

In speaking with a Tesla rep during a recent service center visit, I learned that FSD can be bought at any time after purchasing a Cybertruck. With an $8k price tag, it definitely adds lot to the final price of the vehicle. How often do you use FSD? 1-10, mostly never to every time you drive.

Autopilot seems to work just fine for the use case of keeping one's lane and reducing driving fatigue on the highway. Wondering what the community's thoughts were.

Pretty much anytime I'm driving for more than 20 min.

 

[Zane Edwards]

In speaking with a Tesla rep during a recent service center visit, I learned that FSD can be bought at any time after purchasing a Cybertruck. With an $8k price tag, it definitely adds lot to the final price of the vehicle. How often do you use FSD? 1-10, mostly never to every time you drive.

Autopilot seems to work just fine for the use case of keeping one's lane and reducing driving fatigue on the highway. Wondering what the community's thoughts were.

I use it every day, even running simple errands but it really comes in handy when on any kind of road trip....1 hour drive etc.....it really works well. You should try it in a CT at your local show room, but like most on here we didn't have it when we first got our CT and now that we have it...WOW what an asset.

 

[cofree]

I'm envious of all of you for whom autopilot / FSD works well. We have 3 Teslas... 2 of which have FSD and one had FSD until we bought our Y.

Freeway driving (autopilot):
Cybertruck: 30%. In good weather one disengagement per mile.
model Y/3: 80%. In good weather one disengagement per 10 miles.

The model Y/3 fails in snow, particularly when the cameras get covered. Also fails when lane lines are less visible from the paint being wiped away from snowplows.
The Cybertruck will often on gentle curves will go to the outside of the lane, often 2 foot over the lane line or edge of the road, past the rumble strip. Sometimes it goes so far out of its lane that it gives up and just uses the other lane. The visualization is well aware it is out of the correct lane so it doesn't seem to be a vision issue. After this has happened a couple of times in a drive it insists on going about 10mph under the speed limit (while the rest of the traffic goes 10mph over) which just isn't usable. This lasts for several minutes. This is typically i70 from Golden to Vail. It doesn't help that the lane lines get wiped off from the snowplows.

FSD (surface streets)
Cybertruck: 20%
model Y/3: 20%
In good weather about 1 disengagement per mile.

During my last drive in good weather (we also drove in snow today and did not attempt FSD) it decided to turn onto a street on the left side of the median in 2 locations, I took over to stop it from driving on the wrong side of the road. Twice it chose poor navigation routes that needed correction as they each would have wasted several minutes. Once it decided to turn onto a road that had a police blockade with flashing lights right as you turned onto it so I aborted that turn. Twice it also missed speed limit changes in particularly bad ways. That was all in about 8 miles of driving.

I don't think most of these issues are due to issues with my specific vehicles (we have 3 Teslas with at least AP), but mainly the locations (Tesla's maps are bad here) (lane lines are bad) (maybe more curves on freeways), and partly a stronger insistence by us to follow CO road rules when in CO.

 

[Vagis9780]

In speaking with a Tesla rep during a recent service center visit, I learned that FSD can be bought at any time after purchasing a Cybertruck. With an $8k price tag, it definitely adds lot to the final price of the vehicle. How often do you use FSD? 1-10, mostly never to every time you drive.

Autopilot seems to work just fine for the use case of keeping one's lane and reducing driving fatigue on the highway. Wondering what the community's thoughts were.

10

 

[Cactusrick]

Get it. Rent it for a month or two...Use it all the time. It drives better than me.

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