May 13, 2024
9:10:52am
TheLost Parody account
My quick review after using Tesla's FSD all weekend...
short version:
It's like being driven around by my 87-year-old father-in-law who has severe foot neuropathy.

* He shouldn't be allowed on the road, but somehow he passed his last test.

* When he does drive me around, the first thing I do is text the kids some joke about 'how I'm going die on this drive'

* At some point, I will record a video to prove how insane it is he's driving unsupervised.

* Everybody eventually stomps an imaginary break peddal when riding with him.. its just a matter of when and how often.

* Everybody at some point will motion to people in other cars 'sorry!' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Long version:

It follows the speed limit and driving laws... painfully to-the-letter. For example, As it comes to an intersection it will stop WAY back at the crosswalk, wait, then creep up to the actual intersection. It's how you are supposed to do it... but you get honked at CONSTANTLY. If the speed limit is 15 MPH, and nobody is around... it will drive 15MPH (I forgot how slow 15 miles per hour is).

The worst is on roads where NOBODY goes the speed limit. Mountain View corridor has spots marked 55mph, but traffic is moving 70mph. There is a setting that tells the car to try and keep up with traffic. But there were a few times my wife started yelling at me and I had to yell back "WE ARE IN AI'S HANDS NOW BABY!" (as cars went zipping around us)

I thought we would die when I had it drive out of Costco's parking lot (Saturday before Mothers-Day crowd). Not because it was driving bad... but how slow it was getting us out of the parking lot. I stopped counting how many times we were being honked at, and started thinking somebody was probably going to pull out a gun for blocking a few dozen jacked-up trucks (after remembering they had to buy their wife something.. running to Costco to pick up flowers.. dealing with the throngs of humanity... then some idiot in an EV makes it impossible for people to get out)

Other tid bits:
It takes crazy lines turning corners.
It speeds up at weird times.
It breaks at weird times.
It got us around all weekend with hardly any issues.

The nerd in my thought it was fantastic.
The part of me that likes to drive hated every moment of it.
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Related Threads Topic: I just got the free trial of FSD on my Tesla.. AMA (TheLost, May 11, 2024 at 11:40am)

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