Despite some challenges and areas for improvement, Tesla's full self-driving V12 has shown significant progress and impressive performance in handling challenging driving situations
Questions to inspire discussion
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What are the challenges of Tesla's full self-driving V12?
—Despite significant progress, Tesla's FSD V12 still struggles with recognizing stop signs, yielding to pedestrians, and navigating construction zones.
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How does the news media impact public perception of Tesla's FSD V12?
—The news media's negative portrayal has led to many people being unaware of the capabilities of Tesla's FSD V12, prioritizing clicks over facts.
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What improvements are needed for Tesla's FSD V12?
—Version 12.4 of Tesla's FSD is expected to fix common problems such as automatic speed offset, GPS-based speed limit updates, and hesitant behavior in certain driving situations.
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What are the impressive capabilities of Tesla's FSD V12?
—Tesla's FSD V12 demonstrates advanced defensive driving capabilities, smooth handling of challenging driving situations, and improved navigation and turn signals compared to earlier versions.
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What are the challenges encountered during stress testing of Tesla's FSD V12?
—Stress testing of Tesla's FSD V12 encountered challenges such as interventions, disengagements, struggles with construction zones and road closures, and the need for improvements in version 12.4.
Key Insights
Improvement in Autopilot Visualization and Behavior
- 🚗 The autopilot's visualization has improved significantly, rendering cars extremely steady with minimal movement, a huge improvement from previous versions.
- 🛑 Full self-driving does a great job coming to a full stop and ensuring safety before proceeding.
- 🚗 The majority of full self-driving visualizations may be taken over by something similar to what we see in High Fidelity park assist, rendering car models unnecessary.
- 🤯 The minimal movements of the steering wheel in tight areas are pretty incredible, showing the smoothness and precision of the driving.
- 🚦 The car's hesitation at an unprotected left-hand turn shows a more comfortable and confident experience compared to the previous version.
- 🚗 The car's behavior at unprotected left turns shows impressive decision-making and patience, waiting for traffic from both sides to clear.
- 😅 Full self-driving has gone from a point where I wouldn't even attempt areas like this at all a few years ago to now where the vast majority of the time it is extremely comfortable and feels very competent.
Limitations and Struggles of Full Self-Driving Technology
- 😬 The progress of Tesla's FSD is undeniable, but it's still not perfect yet and can exhibit some odd behavior.
- 🚧 Construction zones and road closures are consistent areas where full self-driving struggles, showing the limitations of the technology.
- 🛣️ It starts to creep out and try to analyze the situation, much better behavior for the road closure.
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Clips
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00:00 🚗 Despite some disengagements and odd behavior, testing Tesla's full self-driving in challenging conditions shows significant progress, with Ground News providing unbiased coverage and insight into news sources' credibility and biases.
- Testing Tesla's full self-driving in challenging conditions in the Berkeley Hills shows significant progress, despite some disengagements and odd behavior, with many people still unaware of its capabilities due to negative media portrayal.
- The news media prioritizes clicks over facts, but Ground News provides unbiased coverage and insight into news sources' credibility and biases.
- Ground News simplifies the process of understanding news stories and offers a blind spot page to challenge your perspective, while the speaker stress tests Tesla FSD V12 in difficult driving conditions.
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02:26 🚗 Tesla FSD V12 handles speed bumps and pedestrians well, but needs improvement in recognizing stop signs and yielding to pedestrians, with improved autopilot visualizations and potential future replacement with High Fidelity park assist.
- The Tesla FSD V12 is handling speed bumps and pedestrian obstacles well, but still needs improvement in recognizing stop signs and yielding to pedestrians.
- Autopilot visualizations have improved, with smoother rendering of cars and better handling of obstacles, but there are still some issues with stop signs and braking.
- Tesla's full self-driving does a great job of coming to a full stop and ensuring safety before proceeding, with version 12 removing visualizations for cones and replacing them with occupancy network visualizations that are more accurate.
- In the future, full self-driving visualizations may be replaced by High Fidelity park assist due to its ability to render objects correctly, and the speaker had to take over due to technical difficulties with the camera.
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06:18 🚗 Tesla FSD V12 impressively navigates narrow roads and differentiates between obstacles, but struggles with stopping at stop signs and lane changes, with version 12.4 expected to fix common problems.
- Tesla FSD V12 is showing impressive behavior in navigating narrow roads, hesitating around obstacles, and differentiating between parked cars and cars with brake lights on, ultimately demonstrating advanced defensive driving capabilities.
- The Tesla FSD V12 has some trouble pulling away from the curb and stopping at stop signs, and struggles with lane changes and path planning.
- Version 12.4 of Tesla's FSD should fix common problems, as the car anticipates oncoming traffic and pulls off to the side of the road.
- Tesla's Full Self-Driving handles tight and difficult driving situations smoothly and seamlessly, with minimal steering movements and maintaining speed well even in confusing intersections.
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10:16 🚗 Tesla FSD V12 is more confident but still hesitant around pedestrians, struggles with sharp turns and narrow roads, and occasionally doesn't use a turn signal or chooses less than ideal parking spots, making stress testing difficult.
- Tesla FSD V12 is more comfortable and confident, but still hesitant and overly cautious around pedestrians, slowing down and pausing to ensure safety.
- Tesla's Full Self-Driving is able to navigate around obstacles and drive well, but occasionally doesn't use a turn signal and chooses less than ideal parking spots.
- Tesla FSD V12 has shown vast improvement in comfort and performance, but still has moments that make the driver nervous, such as struggling with sharp turns and narrow roads.
- The speaker discusses the challenges of stress testing Tesla FSD V12 and the importance of an end-to-end approach due to the complexity of contextual situations.
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14:33 🚗 The Tesla FSD V12 is struggling with detecting signs, finding parking spots, and maintaining proper speed, indicating the need for improvements in version 12.4.
- The car struggled to detect a faded 5 mph sign, had trouble finding a parking spot, and experienced twitchiness in the steering wheel at low speeds, indicating the need for improvements in version 12.4.
- The Tesla FSD V12 is struggling with automatic speed offset, causing the car to drive too slow and prompting the driver to intervene to avoid annoying other drivers.
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16:56 🚗 The Tesla FSD V12 is struggling with speed limit updates, overriding the accelerator pedal, forward collision warnings, and turn signals, but shows improvement in navigation and turn signals, making unprotected left turns, and navigating steep roads, while still struggling with construction zones and road closures.
- The car is having difficulty updating its speed limit based on GPS, causing slow and painful driving experiences.
- The Tesla FSD V12 is experiencing difficulties with overriding the accelerator pedal, encountering issues with forward collision warnings, and not using turn signals, but overall the navigation and turn signals have improved compared to earlier versions.
- The Tesla FSD V12 shows good behavior in making unprotected left turns, with smooth acceleration and natural slowing down on steep roads.
- Tesla's Full Self-Driving struggles with construction zones and road closures, and the hope is that future versions will see improvements in these areas.
- The Tesla FSD V12 is having difficulty navigating road closures and is getting stuck in a loop.
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22:03 🚗 Tesla FSD V12 struggles with construction zones and parking, needs improvements for consistent performance, but handles difficult situations smoothly.
- The car had to change route due to construction, and the driver hoped to test the car's interaction with a construction worker holding a stop sign.
- The car struggles with construction zones and parking, but improvements are needed for consistent performance, which may not happen until smart summon and auto park are merged.
- Tesla FSD V12 is having difficulty making a right turn, but does well at a roundabout, although it didn't signal, and a Model 3 in front of the speaker stopped in the middle of the road and then reversed.
- Full self-driving encounters difficult situations like cars slamming on brakes and birds walking into the road, but handles them smoothly.
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25:20 🚗 Tesla FSD V12 stress testing faced challenges but showed impressive performance, with the speaker impressed by the improvements in handling challenging driving situations.
- Tesla FSD V12 stress testing encountered some challenges, including interventions and disengagements, but overall showed impressive performance.
- The speaker is impressed with the improvements in Tesla's full self-driving system, finding it to be extremely comfortable and competent in handling challenging driving situations.
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Duration: 0:27:34
Publication Date: 2024-05-01T02:30:04Z
WatchUrl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMDNFLsXFEU
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