He particularly loves the (supervised) self-driving feature, a form of stress relief on long commutes.
Is it just but doesn’t that seem like a more stressful way to drive? I’d need to be at full attention so I could intervene at any time in case the car just starts doing something random. If I’m controlling the car I still need to pay attention, but at least I wouldn’t have to worry about the car doing something random. It seems worse than nothing.
Did a road trip in a friend’s Model 3 with FSD and it is significantly more stressful than my VW or my wife’s Acura driver assist features. It made a staggering number of minor mistakes including hallucinating pedestrians for every semi that was more than a mile ahead. It would slam on the brakes when this happened so you had to watch it like a hawk for every hill crest. The other really nasty one was sudden, violent lane changes. Especially if you were in the left lane with someone behind you.
I have gotten to the point where I wonder at people who say they love FSD. My experiences with it are so overwhelmingly negative that I have to assume there is something different about the roads I drive on compared to what it is trained on.
In my experience assisted driving helps me avoid fatigue on very long drives. It feels like I can focus where other cars are much more because I’m not spending brain power focusing on staying in my lane and keeping the correct speed.
So I have a Ford so it’s not quite the same, but broadly the hands free and the lane centering will do only pretty boring stuff. So on a freeway even with hands free I keep my hands on in the wheel (don’t quite trust it, and my hands need to be somewhere anyway), but my arms are not tense as often.
With more risky intersections, it’s pretty much like driving without but still my hands are controlling against pretty much the direction the road instead of having to correct against the current direction of the car.
My first few cars the cruise control was rarely useful. Then I had adaptive cruise control which made things nicer. Now my arms are not in tension as much, which is nicer yet.
I don’t know about actually trusting the system when dealing with cross streets and signal lights, but the most tedious parts of driving are far less constantly taxing
I very much love FSD. You can chill while just monitoring everything around you, making sure nothing goes wrong. You can’t check out, obviously, but it is pretty nice.
Unfortunately, I canceled mine because I’m not giving any more money to Elon. 😒
Is it just but doesn’t that seem like a more stressful way to drive? I’d need to be at full attention so I could intervene at any time in case the car just starts doing something random. If I’m controlling the car I still need to pay attention, but at least I wouldn’t have to worry about the car doing something random. It seems worse than nothing.
We could have had decent public transportation…
Did a road trip in a friend’s Model 3 with FSD and it is significantly more stressful than my VW or my wife’s Acura driver assist features. It made a staggering number of minor mistakes including hallucinating pedestrians for every semi that was more than a mile ahead. It would slam on the brakes when this happened so you had to watch it like a hawk for every hill crest. The other really nasty one was sudden, violent lane changes. Especially if you were in the left lane with someone behind you.
I have gotten to the point where I wonder at people who say they love FSD. My experiences with it are so overwhelmingly negative that I have to assume there is something different about the roads I drive on compared to what it is trained on.
In my experience assisted driving helps me avoid fatigue on very long drives. It feels like I can focus where other cars are much more because I’m not spending brain power focusing on staying in my lane and keeping the correct speed.
So I have a Ford so it’s not quite the same, but broadly the hands free and the lane centering will do only pretty boring stuff. So on a freeway even with hands free I keep my hands on in the wheel (don’t quite trust it, and my hands need to be somewhere anyway), but my arms are not tense as often.
With more risky intersections, it’s pretty much like driving without but still my hands are controlling against pretty much the direction the road instead of having to correct against the current direction of the car.
My first few cars the cruise control was rarely useful. Then I had adaptive cruise control which made things nicer. Now my arms are not in tension as much, which is nicer yet.
I don’t know about actually trusting the system when dealing with cross streets and signal lights, but the most tedious parts of driving are far less constantly taxing
I very much love FSD. You can chill while just monitoring everything around you, making sure nothing goes wrong. You can’t check out, obviously, but it is pretty nice.
Unfortunately, I canceled mine because I’m not giving any more money to Elon. 😒