Stress Testing Tesla FSD V12.3 is Getting Difficult...

Version 12.3.5

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00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Ground News
02:15 - The Drive
25:49 - Results

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[brendanboon]

Man your video's are just a joy to watch. The overlap of fsd, the fast forward trough boring pieces, the editing and the commentary all top notch. And then the end score and recap conclusion. Just absolutely lovely. I'm not watching other FSD video's anymore because there are getting to many, but yours is just someting else.

[brucemcgoveran]

Your videos and commentary have been invaluable to my understanding of FSD and its progress. Thank you. Please keep them coming.

[Metenos]

Lol the visualization actually saw the bird and it displayed it as a dog very briefly!

[YuanChi-fe]

As a European, I'm kind of shocked by the terrible street design compared to Germany. No wonder the US ranks so high in car accidents.

[GregoryMooreMD]

Love the graphics. Best ever!! Thanks for the great videos as always!!

[JCintheBCC]

8:45 - It's good to hear that 12.4 is planned to address this. Twice on a drive last week, I had FSD exit the highway via an off-ramp into a dedicated lane on the surface street (not stop required), but the car came to a stop in the lane, then swerved back and forth between the dedicated lane and the adjacent lane for about 100 feet before deciding where it needed to be. In both cases, it seemed to determine the dedicated merge lane was a shoulder, and it tried very hard to merge into the traffic immediately.

[benediktfreude]

I can confidently like your videos BEFORE watching 👍 excited for this one

[ULTRACOMFY_eu]

16:22 is what tells me this self driving is actually on the right track for the future. It believes it is on a road with a 5mph speed limit but recognizes that the car in oncoming is going much faster than that and predicts what to do accordingly. A system that insists on its 5mph speed limit would have continued to predict that car to slow down to 5mph and driven very differently, while Tesla FSD just adapted to the situation even though it must have seemed confusing to it. Good job.

[williamclarke]

Dude this is incredible. I've been following this channel for a while, and I'm always so happy when I see a new video. You really help provide a full understanding of where FSD is in the development process-- thank you!

[nononsenseBennett]

Wouldn't it be cool if FSD flashed the headlights like a driver would do to acknowledge the actions of another driver? Or activate the four way flasher briefly to thank a motorist in the rear for yielding? This would make driving so much better IMO.

[ChristianBlueChimp]

Great video. I can't wait to hear your comments on v12.4 and 12.5.

[professor]

Even though am not interested in self driving cars or anything like that, the way you structure your videos and your voice calms me down a lot .
Like 20 minutes watching this felt like 2 minutes

[Wol]

I appreciate the amount of work that goes into your videos: the progress in capability of the car is amazing and you capture it.

[dreamburn]

I just drove 1200 miles on version 12.3 in two days.
I am mostly impressed, and thankful for this amazing software; however, it brought to light some issues that need to be solved. Some issues are new to version 12, and some have been driving me crazy since 2019.
First the new issues:
The car hugs the right side of the road to an annoying degree. I wish it would drive in the center of the lane.
On auto speed offset, it makes the drive more tolerable because of its lack of accurate speed-limit assessment, but speeds like a criminal! It will go 60 in a 45, and 70 in a 55! Please give us a button in the [chill->assertive] section that lets us specify the actual max speed to follow in the meantime, and more importantly develop a foolproof method for determining the speed limit of the road it's on. The car is so horrible at determining the speed limit, something HAS to be done. My complex has a 5mph speed limit, which it follows, and then goes to a 25mph, and then 50mph road, but the car thinks it's 5mph for many miles!
On that note, the car is so bad at determining the speed limit, it is dangerous. On highways in California, Oregon, and Washington (and I assume elsewhere), speed limit signs indicate the main speed limit, and either below it, or on a sign several meters past the actual speed limit sign, it displays the speed limit for trucks, or autos towing trailers, etc. on a 70-80mph road, it sees the second sign, "Trucks 55mph" and thinks that is the speed limit to follow. It simply will not realize it's not a truck or towing vehicle and choose to follow the lowest speed limit. Infuriating having to set the speed every few miles!
The car is constantly changing lanes "to follow route" behind trucks in the slow lane because it thinks it needs to follow some route when it is a perfectly contiguous two-lane highway for hundreds of miles that does not change. What is it about its navigation algorithm that is constantly thinking it needs to change to the slow lane when it really just needs to keep going straight indefinitely? And what is with this changing out of rightmost lane BS?
It almost never follows a "keep right except to pass" sign. I constantly have to disengage and pull to the right lane.
It always blazes on at ridiculous speeds when the speed limit drops when entering towns. It needs to slow down to the posted speed by the time it reaches the lower speed limit sign, not blaze past it at full speed and eventually slow down.
The car needs to recognize slow or stopped traffic much farther in advance! It waits until it is coming up on red light stopped traffic and then slams on the brakes abruptly. The system needs to look much farther ahead and slow down at the pace defined by regen until it comes to a smooth stop.
The car needs to stop swerving onto the lane markings on the left side of the lane every time it passes a large vehicle, especially when the large vehicle is nowhere near encroaching on my lane. When I pass two trucks on the left that are giving me plenty of room, and nowhere near the lane divider, the car swerves onto the left lane line, then swerves back, then swerves left again, then swerves back. Ridiculous! No thanks.
The car needs to use turn signals whenever it slows down in its lane to prepare for a turn or lane change, or is going to change direction, and definitely when it is merging into another lane like when merging onto the freeway. It just doesn't do this!
The system is improving, and I am rooting for its inevitable success; however, I AM A MUCH BETTER DRIVER than FSD. I don't change lanes into people's blind spots. I don't slam on the brakes unnecessarily. I don't speed when inappropriate. I avoid debris and potholes, and animals in the road (unlike FSD). I wish Tesla would address the things that have been plaguing FSD constantly for the last 6 years.
I am sure some of it will be handled, but we are past due for some of the basics... Like recognizing common traffic signs!

You are the best FSD YouTuber, but rather than stress testing Berkeley, you need to be testing real world scenarios, like how it performs on real world trips and commutes. Somewhere OTHER THAN BERKELEY! This software's absolute CRAP in the Palm Springs area.

Thanks. 😎👍🏼
People like you have influence in Tesla. Let's show them where they really need improvement.

[IanSfirebirdflame]

You're the only person I watch FSD drives of. Whenever there's an update, I don't even bother watching other channels. I just wait for your video to show up on my feed :)

[FSDwithme]

12.3.6 downloading now.. cant wait to test it out! Great vid bro.

[nicxtlevelgaming]

Very excited to see more FSD content from you!

[miipoe]

Great work you are doing here! I observed version 12.3.5 performing flawlessly in the construction zone. It stopped correctly at the light or stop sign, then proceeded by crossing the double yellow line and going against directional arrows perfectly. It exited by following the queue without any issues. It was never able to do this for years, but suddenly, it can. This is amazing to me, given that it is an entirely new implementation. In version 11, it failed to detect a boulder on a highway. This is another area that we should pay attention to in version 12...

[mikegiron]

I just got FSD12.3.6 last night and did a quick test drive with minimal traffic. It's definitely improving quickly now. One thing I'll test today, and curious if you've seen it. Since the move to neural net, sometimes vision will confuse street numbers for speed signs. In particular, in IL we have a road, Lake St, that's number IL20 and it's at 50 mph. If the car crosses a 20 sign, max will dip until it sees a 50 mph sign. This happens pretty much between every light haha. Similar to your school zone example, but it's repetitious