POLL: FSD usage Poll

[Nystyle324]

I HATE the profiles. Just let me set my own damn speed. Yeah, lane centering sucks, it doesn’t respond to lane change inputs, oh, and the profiles SUCK.

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[Cactusrick]

Love it FSD is great in FSCB - I use the "cruise control" part when off roading in the desert to crawl like a tank at 2-3 miles an hour just don't forget to steer ....

 

[wshunter]

FSD was an amazing surprise as I started with VS 13.2.8 in my CT as my first experience with it. I use it almost exclusively for getting around! But what has been your experience? Trust it? Enjoy it? Nervous with it?

I use it almost every time I drive. Had to pull a trailer a lot during the past few days and because it won’t engage FSD with trailer attached I really missed it. Cutting left turns too close, not recognizing road construction personnel with stop signs, and school zones still problems, also no way to correct it if going too fast or too slow in various situations. Map errors. The same one occurs for my MY and CT. Found out from the Fed Ex driver the other day that their map has the same error.

 

[gooshjkc]

I think FSD is amazing and no one is close to autonomous driving than Tesla. However, it’s still little bits away for me to trust it and let it completely take over for every drive. Some of the decisions it makes would not be the same as I would have done. On long straight highway drives, it’s perfect. However, even then it would make lane changes when I wouldn’t have. I might knick picking here but it’s just how I feel.

 

[carsly]

Cybertruck FSD launched at the end of September, just 7 months ago. It was pretty poor early - clipped curbs, struggled with left-hand turns, struggled with tight hand turns where it would make mid-turn corrections, etc. It was a new teenage driver. BUT in those seven months it has gotten to be very, very good. Dare I say excellent.

My issues are no longer related to FSD, but Tesla's nav choices. For example, I have scenarios where two lanes turn left and I know that I need to be in the right-hand of the two since a few hundred yards ahead this lane will go straight (my intended direction of travel) whereas the left-most lane turns into a left-turn only lane. FSD will always want to pick the left-most lane and then change over to the right after the turn. Why? Every time, I break off FSD just for this.

But then I remind myself Cybertruck FSD has only existed for 7 months. It's sooooo much smoother, handles turns better, manages speed/momentum better, no more sudden/late braking, etc. The rate of change of improvements is astonishing compared to the decade-long evolution of the earlier, non-neural net, version. If you don't think fully driverless is possible, you're not paying attention.

 

[Sousray]

I got screwed out of my transfer from Model 3 to CT, so I have not had FSD, but now Tesla offered me 1 year for free yesterday. I have subscribed to it when I took trips before this. Works well on highway and even side roads, but definitely needs upgrades for the school zones. I have to disengage it every time I approach a school zone. Speed drops from 55 to 40 and then within 100 ft drops to 35 in school zone with yellow flashing lights and a speed sign. never slows to school zone speed. Also, do not like that it will not hold its speed, in any mode I set, slows down on corners and hills and people behind me seem to get upset. at least when I did not have FSD on, it would cruise control at the same speed regardless. Don't get me wrong, Tesla FSD is great, nothing in the world like it. but still has quarks. but love it for trips.

 

[A-AY-RON]

I'm definitely in the 1% that finds no use for it. If it were unsupervised, I'd feel differently, as I could actually multi-task. My personal view is that it's just a party trick to show those who haven't experienced it before. I also love driving. Out of my five vehicles, the CB is my only automatic.

 

[Cactusrick]

Cybertruck FSD launched at the end of September, just 7 months ago. It was pretty poor early - clipped curbs, struggled with left-hand turns, struggled with tight hand turns where it would make mid-turn corrections, etc. It was a new teenage driver. BUT in those seven months it has gotten to be very, very good. Dare I say excellent.

My issues are no longer related to FSD, but Tesla's nav choices. For example, I have scenarios where two lanes turn left and I know that I need to be in the right-hand of the two since a few hundred yards ahead this lane will go straight (my intended direction of travel) whereas the left-most lane turns into a left-turn only lane. FSD will always want to pick the left-most lane and then change over to the right after the turn. Why? Every time, I break off FSD just for this.

But then I remind myself Cybertruck FSD has only existed for 7 months. It's sooooo much smoother, handles turns better, manages speed/momentum better, no more sudden/late braking, etc. The rate of change of improvements is astonishing compared to the decade-long evolution of the earlier, non-neural net, version. If you don't think fully driverless is possible, you're not paying attention.

Are you on Chill, Standard or Hurry mode? I've found Chill wants to stay on the right side lanes and Hurry is going to the fastest left lanes - I use hurry most often ...however I prefer Chill for residential and parking lots or lots of congestion

 

[carsly]

Are you on Chill, Standard or Hurry mode? I've found Chill wants to stay on the right side lanes and Hurry is going to the fastest left lanes - I use hurry most often ...however I prefer Chill for residential and parking lots or lots of congestion

always chill. If I want to nudge it along I just hit the accelerator. On highways it's happy cruising in a middle lane, which is what I tend to do.

 

[seussiii]

For your number 1. Depress the GO pedal (accelerator) and your truck will make its move forward without delay.

I assume this was directed towards me. Yea I have done that as a workaround for as long as I've had my CT. I end up having to hold down the pedal as it will not proceed or take way too long once it does get the nudge.

I'll add some more since my last post

5. Speed management - It will slow down to 35mph before getting into a left turning lane. This coming from a 55mph posted speed limit....so traffic is going 60+. I have to take over or hold down the pedal.

6. Ignoring my turn signals - This is probably the most infuriating one. It sits in the fast/left lane... someone approaches behind me and I turn on the right turn signal to move over... It literally disengages it. I turn it on again.... It turns it off again.

7. Autowiper - I don't know wtf happened in these past few updates for me but I have to disable the wipers or they will run dry at some point EVERY SINGLE FSD engagement. I rarely saw issues before that.

 

[HaulingAss]

I love using FSD in all kinds of situations. I'm still blown away by what it can do.

All four of our Tesla have it and FSD was worth every penny!

 

[Beetlebug62]

I use it 99% of the time for both my 2018 Model 3 w/HW3 and my 5wk old CT.

What surprised me was that I found the two to be very similar, when I was expecting the CT on HW4 to be dramatically better. Only afterward did I find that the CT is on a different build than the other HW4 vehicles.

So, it has its quirks, hugging the left lane line, slow to move back into the right lane, but having gone thru the development of FSD on my Model 3, I'm used to these things.

It'll get better, particularly now that everyone is getting free FSD for a year. They need data. If you think about it, the installed base is less than 1% of all Teslas out there, so if we want it to get better, we need to use it.

 

[BeFamousVideo]

I assume this was directed towards me. Yea I have done that as a workaround for as long as I've had my CT. I end up having to hold down the pedal as it will not proceed or take way too long once it does get the nudge.

I'll add some more since my last post

5. Speed management - It will slow down to 35mph before getting into a left turning lane. This coming from a 55mph posted speed limit....so traffic is going 60+. I have to take over or hold down the pedal.

6. Ignoring my turn signals - This is probably the most infuriating one. It sits in the fast/left lane... someone approaches behind me and I turn on the right turn signal to move over... It literally disengages it. I turn it on again.... It turns it off again.

7. Autowiper - I don't know wtf happened in these past few updates for me but I have to disable the wipers or they will run dry at some point EVERY SINGLE FSD engagement. I rarely saw issues before that.

Regarding your #6. When running FSD and in fast lane on a highway if a vehicle is approaching behind me the truck moves over one lane to let faster car go by. A polite move. Perhaps review your FSD settings to see what's up.

#7. One of the last updates messed up the wiper automation. Now I turn it off when running FSD. Hopefully this gets resolved soon.

I haven't tried a soft reset by pressing both wheel buttons at the same time for 10 seconds.

 

[seussiii]

Regarding your #6. When running FSD and in fast lane on a highway if a vehicle is approaching behind me the truck moves over one lane to let faster car go by. A polite move. Perhaps review your FSD settings to see what's up.

Not an issue with the settings. The only option would be chill mode which sounds like it would favor the slow lane. My problem doesn't happen all the time most of the time it will listen. This isn't user error, its a flaw in FSD.

 

[Killlbox]

Maybe it's because I live in Wyoming but FSD it terrible on the truck.
It thinks the i85 speed limit is 50MPH from Cheyenne to Denver which is insane.
It slows WAY down in i25 no matter what setting I use, or even better it'll blow past the speed limit for no reason.
In city, it often wants to drive right off the road.

We have all the latest updates and every time we use it, FSD sucks. Thankfully we LOVE driving the truck so I'm not sure how much we would use it if it worked correctly.

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