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I’m glad that you are having a good experience, but FSD reliably and repeatedly tries to stop at green lights on a 50 mph road near me. I’m just happy - sort of - that I didn’t pay for it, and that I’m only able to try it because my new Model S Plaid has been in the shop for service four times in the last three months…

(The loaners that I have had three of those four times have all had FSD.)

I am reasonably satisfied with Enhanced Autopilot on highways, though it’s unclear to me what, exactly, is ‘enhanced’ about it. And Navigate on Autopilot seems to add nothing of value.

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> FSD reliably and repeatedly tries to stop at green lights on a 50 mph road near me

I believe that's a "feature". I had it on a loaner too and it wants you to give it permission to cross the intersection by pressing down on the drive stalk or briefly press the accelerator pedal.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_eu/GUID-A701F7D...

Weird. I’m able to navigate door to door from north east seattle to south west seattle, which if you’ve ever been here is one of the most difficult and screwed up bits of infrastructure on earth. FSD used to stop at green lights very early on in the beta and you had to tap the accelerator to make it not stop, but at some point they dropped that. My FSD doesn’t just do stoplights right but does yields and merging stop signs and traffic circles and other complex decision making road signs.

It’s not flawless, especially on the seattle roads where knowing where the road actually is requires human level reasoning most of the time, so it drifts into parts of the road that I know from experience are for parking but the car assumes is just a widened road. Or there a lot of roads with margins that are gravel but are so subtly different from the damaged road surface it thinks that’s part of the road and tries to drift over before it realizes it’s not. These issues are nothing like the unmitigated disaster it used to be, though, and if they can keep the pace they’ve had over the last 6 months up for another 12 months, it’ll be remarkably useful.

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