Grant D

FSD v14 Lite is now rolling out to AI3 early-access customers. Based on the feedback, will rollout to more customers over the next few weeks. This build distills the driving behavior from AI4’s v14 series into both the camera and compute config of AI3. It includes destination options and speed profiles on city roads, but more importantly significantly improved safety. We hope you’ll enjoy it, once the build ships wide.

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First thoughts on 14.3.3 down under: 1) Hurry mode is wonderful on good roads and good weather, maintaining 103-105kmh on SH1, accelerating firmly and decelerating well at speed limit changes 2) it’s completely insane on winding roads and in the rain. Make sure you have good tyres, as it pushes as far as I would be comfortable on very tight corners in wet conditions on wiggly roads. There is absolutely no need for a “mad max” mode as far as I can see 3) follow distance needs improving. Following behind a slow vehicle in the rain where there is no possibility of overtaking for the next few miles there is simply no point in tailgating the guy far too close. I had to step back to Chill mode to give a sensible following distance, then flicked it back to hurry just as the overtaking lane arrives so it can overtake. 4) it attempts to pull out into gaps that are simply rude (even if technically there was probably just room to do so). A couple of times we got to a stop sign, so the car goes through with waiting until the full stop has happened, and a car is approaching from the right fairly close. Fsd waited a while, then pulled out to turn right when the approaching car was far too close. Now I’m sure that if the car had pulled out smartly it could have done it without an accident, but I’m also sure that the approaching driver would have slammed his brakes on if we had pulled out. That’s not acceptable even if there’s room, particularly since you don’t expect a car that’s been waiting there a while to suddenly change its mind and pull out. 4) similarly I had a couple of critical brake applications where the car appeared to be pulling onto a roundabout where there definitely wasn’t room. I quite like that FSD to some extent ignores other cars’ indicators until it sees proof that they’re actually going to do what the indicators say, but there are times when you do need to take note of them. On a small roundabout, a car just coming into view driving in the opposite direction, if it has its right indicator on you have to assume that it does intend to come round the roundabout in front of you. But if you’re waiting at a roundabout and everyone approaching from your right has their left indicator on, you don’t need to wait. 5) parking is vastly improved but not yet there. Way too often it parks forward into car parks. Then when leaving a busy car park it has to try to back out into traffic, and gets stuck in a reverse/stop/go forward to let a car past loop and sometimes then just decides it’s parked again and the job is finished. Similarly it often gets lost in car parks and just decides to park again wherever it finds itself.