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I’m a techno-nerd who’s been following the progression of driving automation with rapt interest from its small beginnings in 2016. My brother couldn’t take delivery on his Tesla Model S in Wisconsin back then, so on March 30, 2017, he picked it up at the Salt Lake City Delivery Center near me. He paid $6,000 for the driving automation that Tesla offered at the time. However, the complete “Full Self Driving” suite wasn’t available back then.
Here are my observations after two months with Full Self Driving . The following is what my car will do now with Full Self Driving V12 and how it performs. You can enter any address into your navigation and FSD will drive your car from your driveway to that address totally automatically in typical low traffic here in Northern Wisconsin. You only occasionally need to touch the accelerator if there is an impatient person behind you.
It will stop automatically at the correct place at stop signs, assess the situation, inch forward, and then proceed briskly straight ahead or turn briskly when it is safe to do so. On a freeway, it will anticipate a slower moving vehicle in front of you well ahead and pull out to pass.It’s slower than a human driver at stop signs. No problem if you are patient, but if you are in hurry or have an impatient driver behind you, it’s just too slow. You can solve this with a little pressure on the accelerator at the right moment.
I see Cadillac ads where it shows hands-free driving — on certain limited roadways. With Tesla, this is not the case — up to now, you still need to put just the right amount of torque on the steering wheel every ~30 seconds to let the car know you are paying attention. This is pretty stupid. If you put too much torque on the steering wheel, it exits you from FSD. If you put on too little torque, it doesn’t recognize your action. My old Nissan Leaf was much better.
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