My FSD challenges so far

[Woodrick]

I have been using FSD for a week now about 95% of the time. My list includes:

1. The auto speed is rather annoying. I am constantly on the accelerator to rev it back up to 7 over. It is especially annoying on turns as it actively slows down during turns and it is so much worse than just maintaining the speed or accelerating through the turn. Question: If I set the speed to the other option instead of auto, could I just control speed with the right scroll wheel like cruise control?
2. The system absolutely CANNOT detect things on the ground. I ran over a possum the other night. It also was going to drive straight over some branches. It also doesn't detect speed bumps and will take them at a higher-than-expected speed.
3. Roundabouts are a bit unpredictable. The first 3 times I went through roundabouts it rode up on the inside shoulder a bit and I disengaged. Now, it'll take those same roundabouts. If there's no cars coming around it's great. If there are cars that are coming and the computer is not sure if they are going to turn off or continue around the bend it with jerk to a stop and start for a bit.
4. The active driver monitoring keeps on disengaging and forces me to be apply for to the steering wheel.
5. Sometimes it doesn't get over when it needs to. It's more of an issue of not knowing the local roads. I don't really find this an issue as I can engage a turn signal to force it over sooner.

Turning into traffic has been great. Navigating heavy traffic is an absolute dream. It is REALLY polished and I plan on continuing to use it.

1 You can turn the automatic set speed off, you get control back, but it still tries to adjust the speed.
2 If does detect speed bumps if properly marked, mine does it all the time.
3 For me, FSD has been essentially perfect in roundabout for about a year now in three different cars and a large number of different roundabouts.
4 That means that you are missing the blue glow lines and the messages that tell you to look at the road.
5 FSD has a little different concept of what lane to drive in than some people do. It really likes the left lane. If there is someone behind it, it will move right.

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[SGAstros]

There’s a highway that I drive on a few times a week, which is 65 for most of it but has 3 small stretches where it drops to 55. I’ve tried different speed settings and no matter what it will not slow down or speed up through the transitions. The display will change the speed limit, so it knows what the speed is, but will just stay at 65, so I have to disengage, then when it goes back to 65 I have to push the accelerator otherwise it stays at 55. Hopefully an easy fix soon.

 

[CYBROCKET]

1 You can turn the automatic set speed off, you get control back, but it still tries to adjust the speed.
2 If does detect speed bumps if properly marked, mine does it all the time.
3 For me, FSD has been essentially perfect in roundabout for about a year now in three different cars and a large number of different roundabouts.
4 That means that you are missing the blue glow lines and the messages that tell you to look at the road.
5 FSD has a little different concept of what lane to drive in than some people do. It really likes the left lane. If there is someone behind it, it will move right.

That sucks about the speed. My single biggest complaint about FSD.

Most of these speed bumps are painted bright yellow and I 1) don’t see them in the visualization and 2) it tries to take it at 25 mph+.

The blue glow never happens. It will randomly say “Driver Attention Monitoring Unavailable” even if it hasn’t warned me or flashed blue in a while. Then, after a little bit it will give me a “Driver Attention Monitoring Active” message. It’s not really in response to anything and appears random.

 

[Woodrick]

That sucks about the speed. My single biggest complaint about FSD.

Most of these speed bumps are painted bright yellow and I 1) don’t see them in the visualization and 2) it tries to take it at 25 mph+.

The blue glow never happens. It will randomly say “Driver Attention Monitoring Unavailable” even if it hasn’t warned me or flashed blue in a while. Then, after a little bit it will give me a “Driver Attention Monitoring Active” message. It’s not really in response to anything and appears random.

Watch the screen, the blues will appear. Or better yet, get a passenger to look for them.

It's been in FSD for years.

 

[CYBROCKET]

Watch the screen, the blues will appear. Or better yet, get a passenger to look for them.

It's been in FSD for years.

I should have been more specific. The blue glow IS there when i doesn’t think i am paying attention. However, sometimes I will get the “driver monitoring deactivated” without any prior blues. Then it will ask to periodically wiggle the wheel and at some point in the next few minutes the active monitoring comes back.

 

[M0unt41nm4n]

There was a 5 gallon bucket in the roadway and the CT didn’t recognize the hazard and went right for it. I had to quickly take over to avoid hurting it.

 

[evnow]

For me, FSD has been essentially perfect in roundabout for about a year now in three different cars and a large number of different roundabouts.

FSD got good with roundabouts starting with 12. But with CT - it struggles a bit - not in figuring out when to get into the roundabout (which was the problem earlier), but how to actually drive.

I think in general they are yet to fine tune / correct the exact path to drive on. Being bigger than 3/Y, it struggles to avoid hitting the curb or going over the lines. It has to make mid turn adjustments to avoid hitting the curb.

BTW the latest FSD (5.5.) even on 3 is not smooth on turns. It has regressed a bit. Hearing good things about 5.6 - hopefully its back to how 3.6 drove.

 

[Sjohnson20]

Lane changes hopefully will be better on the next update. Mine missed an exit since it was trying to pass and couldn’t get back over 3 lanes in time.

 

[Cyber_P]

Me driving: gets constant lane-departure warnings for riding the lane lines
FSD driving: does the exact thing I kept getting warnings for

Hahaha. This. I get even close to the yellow one my left it yells and and screams. But then it cuts over making simple lefts. Wtf rules for thee and not me FSD?

That said- I have regular issues with merging traffic. It hits the brakes hard when a lane merges at an angle that isn't a highway. It also freaks out at some merge lanes.

Have an issue with a turn at an uphill with incoming traffic at a tight angle that it has issues with. Always tries to start going then slams breaks.

 

[Woodrick]

I should have been more specific. The blue glow IS there when i doesn’t think i am paying attention. However, sometimes I will get the “driver monitoring deactivated” without any prior blues. Then it will ask to periodically wiggle the wheel and at some point in the next few minutes the active monitoring comes back.

I'm pretty sure that means that you missed them.

Or possibly are you wearing a hat or sunglasses that may impede the overhead camera's view of your face?

 

[Woodrick]

Hahaha. This. I get even close to the yellow one my left it yells and and screams. But then it cuts over making simple lefts. Wtf rules for thee and not me FSD?

That said- I have regular issues with merging traffic. It hits the brakes hard when a lane merges at an angle that isn't a highway. It also freaks out at some merge lanes.

Have an issue with a turn at an uphill with incoming traffic at a tight angle that it has issues with. Always tries to start going then slams breaks.

The screaming is most likely some more explicit Cybertruck tuning that is necessary, it doesn't happen as frequently in the cars.

When you say it brakes hard when merging, is that because of other traffic or is the road empty?

I suspect that your uphill turn is the truck actually creeping forward to get a better view and you think that it's actually trying to go. That's a pretty common behavior for FSD for a long time in the cars. I've got a similar uphill dead-end into a 2 lane highway, it always has gotten it right, but it will do that second creep which can be concerning to new drivers.

 

[evnow]

Mine missed an exit since it was trying to pass and couldn’t get back over 3 lanes in time.

Lane changes & merging have been issues for quite some time.

I cancel lane changes close to exits (or signal at the right time to change to exit lane). Same with merging - change lane before the merging lane ends.

 

[DZLHED]

Just a point of interest:
My Cybertruck was having issues driving FSD into low angle direct sunlight. The high front camera image always looked a little weird but I assumed that was normal. It got worse and would disengage almost immediately.
I think the windshield off gassed onto that confined housing and it eventually became significantly occluded.
Requested a service. They removed the housing and cleaned the windshield under the housing and the camera. Seems much better now. Both in the app and in FSD.

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