u/AwkwardlyPositioned

Maybe I should have let this play out further, but signaling right and then turning hard left has me scratching my head as far as figuring out what FSD was doing here. I took over and parked on the right since that's where the turn signal went and I didn't want to confuse people behind me. There was an open space on the left and I thought it may be parking there, but I'm completely confused by the purpose of the right turn signal.

Overall FSD has been pretty good at parking for me. It sometimes is on the line or doesn't fully pull into the parking space, but does roughly as well as the average person does parking. This was for sure an outlier.

I don't want it to sound like I'm doing this to bash FSD. I'm still just trying to wrap my mind around what happened here. I drive this road at least 5 days a week. Night, day, rain, snow, or shine I pass this area at least once if not twice a day. I've used FSD almost exclusively the last two weeks and have put on 700 miles in that time.

First of all, I don't know if it is an issue with my phone or an issue with the car, but when I download the video from the dash cam viewer, the file is corrupted and just a jumble of colored lines, so I had to film the screen in my car. What happens is the car signals and then turns hard at the shoulder. I know it doesn't look like much, but it happened so abruptly that I jerked the wheel back. The shoulder is narrow, mostly gravel and goes down into a drainage ditch. I did not want to end up on gravel on an incline at speed.

I've never had FSD do something so blatantly dangerous. At best it just made me look like an idiot to the Silverado 2500 behind me. There was no oncoming traffic, so I don't think it would have been a move to avoid an accident. My wife did have that happen and the car pulled to the shoulder to avoid a head on car passing.

I do recall someone posting recently that their car drove into a highway barrier at speed going onto the shoulder and I chalked that up to a possible suspension failure that caused the accident, but now I don't know after this. I'm always quick to intervene so of course we don't know how this would have ultimately played out, but to be honest I'm very apprehensive to using FSD at all after this.

I know I did the right thing. I get that it is supervised for a reason. I also would not do this myself while driving and this was an unnecessary pulse raise on my way to work last night.

Every time I start to get comfortable with FSD, there's something that has me question using it at all in the first place. I now feel like I'm just monitoring a really bad driver when I could just do better myself. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed that after so many iterations, stupid stuff like this still happens. I don't think FSD is for me. I don't feel it is a net safety increase for me. I've never been in an accident that wasn't me getting rear ended by a distracted while stopped and I feel like this system is going to cause the accident eventually.