Cory Wright

I've driven ~120k miles on FSD across the USA and Canada since October 2019. I personally love FSD and use it every day, but almost everyone I know who has FSD won't use it because it still makes too many mistakes for them. I've experienced its entire evolution. Recent progress is very cool, but I still cannot leave my house in any direction without having to disengage within three blocks. FSD still cannot read signs. It cannot respond to school buses or emergency vehicles. It still blasts through school zones without a hint of awareness. It still randomly freaks out on the highway, or misses exits. It cannot handle toll booths. Speed control remains laughably bad on all types of roads, but especially small back roads. FSD is woefully inconsist with understanding what is allowed with respect to right turns on red. FSD cannot learn dynamically like a human in that if a human screws up an unknown interchange, they muddle their way through it and make a mental note of how to do it better the next time. FSD has no such ability. FSD still cannot see or avoid potholes. Speed bumps are a crapshoot each time you approach one. FSD still largely drives blind to anything it doesn't know about, which is very unlike a human and which leads to very dangerous situations where FSD is confident but wrong. I still cannot tell FSD where exactly I park in my condominium parking lot. FSD is still unable to dynamically adjust to changing scenarios where switching driving profiles would be beneficial, like snow, ice, and stop and go traffic. For example, if you drive on FSD into a snow squall, as I have, a human knows to slow down and to be aware that traction limits have changed. FSD does not adjust like that. If you are in aggressive mode and find yourself in heavy stop and go traffic, FSD will be an incompetent jerk driver switching lanes incessantly for no viable reason. It should just chill out and go with the flow, but, no, you have to manually go into the FSD settings and change the setting to chill. Monday in Baltimore, FSD was going to hit a construction sign that was jutting out into the lane. Another example of being confident but wrong because it was blind to that sign for some reason. Double lane roundabouts are another crapshoot. It simply doesn't know which lane to be in most of the time. When it finds itself in the wrong lane, it barges across lanes cutting off other vehicles. Again, I personally love using FSD, but I am an early adopter with high tolerance for testing, iterative development, and less-than-perfect software. I am in a very small club, tho. The vast majority of people simply won't put up with these weaknesses and FSD surely cannot transition to unsupervised until the majority of these issues are addressed. Cc @teslasi , @chuckcook