I had a Model 3 for 2 years and a Plaid for 2ish years now. I use FSDb or AP or what have you about…70-80% of most of my drives. Over 50,000 miles I’ve had two “phantom” brake incidents.
At the moment, I can go from my house to the store and back with no intervention (~15m each way). I can go to and from work with a couple predictable interventions (~50m each way).
That’s pretty damn cool to me. I totally understand that everyone’s drive contexts are different, but for me…it’s pretty great.
I think it comes down more to the person driving it. I let my father in law use FSD for a bit while I was in the passenger seat and he disengaged so many times saying “It was about to crash” and “Its trying to kill me”. I didn’t see any risk and I almost never disengage. Same car, same streets, same software. Some people just overreact and aren’t comfortable with the car taking control.
There are a few youtube channels out there like AIDRIVR that use FSD and torture-test it and pretty much don’t take over under any circumstances. And they don’t get in any accidents. Weird, huh?
I had a Model 3 for 2 years and a Plaid for 2ish years now. I use FSDb or AP or what have you about…70-80% of most of my drives. Over 50,000 miles I’ve had two “phantom” brake incidents.
At the moment, I can go from my house to the store and back with no intervention (~15m each way). I can go to and from work with a couple predictable interventions (~50m each way).
That’s pretty damn cool to me. I totally understand that everyone’s drive contexts are different, but for me…it’s pretty great.
I think it comes down more to the person driving it. I let my father in law use FSD for a bit while I was in the passenger seat and he disengaged so many times saying “It was about to crash” and “Its trying to kill me”. I didn’t see any risk and I almost never disengage. Same car, same streets, same software. Some people just overreact and aren’t comfortable with the car taking control.
There are a few youtube channels out there like AIDRIVR that use FSD and torture-test it and pretty much don’t take over under any circumstances. And they don’t get in any accidents. Weird, huh?