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What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Tesla’s Full Self Driving Beta


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Later this month, will probably be 4 years since I bought my Tesla Mannequin 3 Lengthy Vary. My odometer now reads 108,752 miles. It’s been about 10 months since I used to be first capable of begin utilizing Tesla’s so known as Full Self Driving (FSD) Beta. Virtually each week for the final 4 years, I’ve realized one thing new in regards to the operation of my Mannequin 3. Specifically, virtually each week for the final 10 months, I’ve realized one thing new in regards to the performance of FSD Beta.

I paid an additional $6,000 for FSD once I bought the automotive. For the primary ~3 years, there have been quite a few updates which added FSD performance. There was fundamental Autosteer, Visitors Conscious Cruise Management, and Automated Navigation on Restricted Entry Highways from the beginning. Added later was computerized stopping at cease indicators and cease lights; visualization of site visitors cones, trash cans, pedestrians, and velocity restrict indicators; and many others. Most notably, although, 10 months in the past I lastly bought full FSD Beta functionality with Autosteer and Automated Navigation on metropolis streets and nation roads.

Professor Verner Suomi, my PhD thesis professor, talked in regards to the “Don’t Know Squared Drawback.” Former Secretary of Protection Donald Rumsfeld within the George W. Bush administration talked about recognized knowns, recognized unknowns, and unknown unknowns. In different phrases, in lots of areas of life and expertise, there are occasions the place you don’t know what you don’t know.

Right here are some things that I didn’t know I didn’t know that I’ve found by utilizing Tesla’s FSD Beta nearly on a regular basis for 10 months:

  • Automated Excessive/Low Beams? To begin with, regardless of all of the sophistication of Tesla’s sensors and software program, the automated excessive/low beam switching on my Mannequin 3 will not be excellent. The swap to low beams is fast and dependable, however the return to excessive beams may be very erratic. The plain answer is to return to handbook switching. Drawback: When FSD Beta is activated, you may’t choose handbook excessive/low beam switching. It took me fairly some time to determine this out. I can nonetheless drive excessive beams to identify deer on the freeway right here in Northern Wisconsin, however I can’t make it keep on excessive beams. It’s very irritating and I haven’t discovered an answer!
  • Automated Windshield Wiper Settings? To begin with, with all of the sophistication of Tesla’s sensors and software program, the automated windshield wiper settings on my Mannequin 3 don’t work very properly. [Editor’s note: Same! I was on the verge of writing an article about it since it’s so annoying. —Zach] The windshield wipers will run typically when there isn’t any rain, maybe due to bugs on the windshield. Additionally, the automated windshield settings will usually not reply correctly to variations in rainfall depth. Once more, the apparent answer is to regulate the windshield wiper setting manually. Drawback: When FSD Beta is activated, you may’t choose all of the handbook windshield wiper settings. It took me fairly some time to determine that when FSD Beta is energetic, you may set the windshield wiper velocity manually, however you may’t set the velocity to zero. The wipers could proceed to attempt to take away these dried bugs on a dry windshield. [Editor’s note: I’m not sure if it’s dried bugs causing the problem — I think it’s other factors. For example, I constantly have the automatic windshield wipers turn on when I’m backing into my garage. I imagine something about the tilt of the car causes it. —Zach]
  • Automated Passing of Slower Shifting Autos? With even the preliminary implementation of Full Self Driving, my automotive was capable of routinely move a slower shifting automobile after which return to the right-hand lane. Nevertheless, with FSD Beta, this didn’t appear to work reliably. The plain answer is to move slower shifting autos semi-manually utilizing the flip sign to alter lanes. Nevertheless, find out how to make this work completely routinely? Answer: There are 3 settings for FSD Beta 1) Chill, 2) Common, and three) Aggressive. It seems that FSD Beta won’t move slower shifting autos routinely until you utilize the Common or Aggressive settings.

My new technique for max battery life utilization throughout cross-country journey in my Tesla Mannequin 3 Lengthy Vary

We’ve now made the 3000-mile spherical journey from Utah to Wisconsin and again in our Mannequin 3 4 occasions for a complete of 12,000 miles. We’ve traveled from Wisconsin to North Carolina and again for an additional ~2000 miles. We’ve additionally traveled from Utah to Southern California and again for ~1200 miles, and we’ve achieved the five hundred miles from Northern Utah to Saint George and again ~8 occasions for an additional ~4,000 miles. Due to this fact, our complete cross-country journey since we purchased the automotive is round 19,200 miles, which is ~18% of the whole mileage on our automotive. In that point, I’ve by no means discovered a Supercharger out of order and I needed to wait just one time for about 5 minutes. Electrical energy for Superchargers prices roughly the identical as shopping for gasoline for a 35 mpg gasoline automotive. Nevertheless, for ~82% of our mileage, we’re paying about ⅓ the price of gasoline for the electrical energy — round 12¢/kW in Wisconsin and Utah.

We stock a few ebikes on the again of our Mannequin 3 once we journey cross-county, which cuts the vary of our 310 mile (EPA) Mannequin 3 by about 40%. It implies that when touring cross-country, the longer separations between Superchargers of ~150 miles is usually a stretch. This could roughly be the identical for house owners of the usual vary Mannequin 3 and a few older Mannequin S automobiles. I don’t wish to cost my battery to over 80%. It’s not good for the battery, however the principle cause on journeys is that charging above 80% may be very sluggish. Due to this fact, provided that I’ve an extended stretch will I cost to 90%. My charging technique for the shorter separations is to enter the vacation spot of the subsequent Supercharger into the navigation and observe the anticipated state of cost (ESOC) when I’ll attain that charger. My automotive will inform me I’ve ample cost when the ESOC reaches about 18%. I wasn’t certain if the pc takes into consideration the 2 bikes on the again, so I had been ready for the ESOC to achieve about 35% simply to make sure. Nevertheless, I’ve not too long ago noticed that an 18 to twenty% ESOC on the subsequent charger is sufficient, and that’s the greatest I can do for among the bigger separations anyway. Simply word that you just additionally have to get a studying on the wind velocity and path in your space, as a result of a headwind can cut back your vary much more.

My new technique is to start out as sluggish as 65 mph for the longer separations. I then control the ESOC. Whether it is 18% once I begin, I continuously see it quickly going as much as 20% or above. At that time, I increase my velocity a number of mph and proceed watching the ESOC. If the ESOC remains to be rising, I increase my velocity once more. Whether it is dropping, I cut back my velocity a number of mph. As a rule, I discover that I can increase my velocity to 75 mph and even 80 mph for the ultimate 30 miles.

Your suggestions: Within the feedback part, please inform us if in case you have additionally been confused by among the implementation of FSD Beta and if in case you have discovered workarounds. Additionally, tell us if in case you have any nice street journey ideas.

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