r/TeslaFSD

Last week after that TX crash, a freind of mine texted me "Hey, did you see where that Tesla hit a house in Texas?", and I replied "As a Tesla owner, you know every time a Tesla hits anything!", "But I bet you can't name a recent or past case of when a Honda like yours crashed and killed someone?"

Another non FSD related crash...

Son speaks out after mom was fatally struck by Tesla that crashed into a California café: 'Wish we had more time'

This gets me ...

"Tesla did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on Saturday, July 4."

I didn't know they reached out to the manufacturers after every fatal crash. Or is it just Tesla? People have had pedal confusion resulting in multiple fatalities, and I don't recall them reaching out to GM or Ford. What would they say? "Yeah, our cars have two pedals, one to go, one to stop. I guess the driver got confused."

I am not a fanboy, nor do I say stupid shit like "FSD is safer than humans", since it requires a human. But in some situations, drivers who can drive, but it seems hard for them to do it right all the time, like drunks and the driver in this story, FSD makes them safer.

FSD has gotten quite good, and definitely good enough for Tesla to start replying to these requests for comment with the following ...

Yes we are aware of the crash and the loss of life. You can't help regretting that if a driver who suffers confusion like this had been using FSD, this would have never happened. But you can't go back and change time.

I tried fsd and i like it so much i ordered MY. but after going on couple of more test drive and especially on highways, fsd is not that great experience and i am realizing i dont want to pay $100 minimum every month for this and elon saying subscription cost will go up in the future is really making me second guess my order.

For me on long highways, i just want to set a speed and lane centering. There is no way to do this on tesla even if i pay for fsd which i dont want to do on highway. I know everyone will probably say that if u dont want fsd dont get tesla and something else but im just sad that just the basic cruise control lane centering is not available at all and everyone seems to be fine w unhappy ppl that want tesla without monthly subscription that can change prices anytime.

If it can do that, I donot mind paying a little more for it.

Not gonna sugarcoat it: I have driver license, but I don't actually feel confident driving without FSD on. (to be frank, I still don't know how to drive lol) Merging, lane changes, judging gaps in traffic.... I just don't have the reps other people seem to have built up. FSD has been the thing letting me actually use my car day to day.

I know the disclaimers.. it's a driver-assist system, not a complete robot chauffeur yet, and I'm supposed to be ready to take over any second. I do stay alert and keep my hands ready. But if I'm honest, I lean on it way more than "assist" implies, because my actual driving skills are pretty thin.

Curious if anyone else got here the same way. Used FSD so much early on that it kind of became a crutch instead of a supplement? And if so, did you ever go back and deliberately build up your own driving skills, or find a good way to practice that isn't just "wing it in traffic"? Would rather fix this properly than just keep depending on the software........

I have a 2026 MY with FSD. I was driving tonight in FSD and the car decided to change lanes out of the HOV (carpool) lane and crossed double yellow lines. I didn’t notice that the car was initiating the lane change and by the time it started changing lanes, I didn’t want to pull the steering wheel back and potentially cause an accident. Of course, the car behind me was a CA highway patrol officer. He pulled me over and gave me a ticket. I explained what happened to him and his comment was that he couldn’t “write Elon Musk a ticket” but he could cite me.

I’m not blaming FSD as I should have been more aware, but this is kind of ridiculous. I’ve had my car try to change lanes out of the HOV lane before and I caught it in time. Has anyone else had this happen, received a ticket, and fought it?

I’ve had the car for one year as of June, put 29k miles on the car, and have about 83% of my miles driven on FSD.

Just for playing in a parking lot and testing performance without subscribing.

For context I’ve owned this HW3 model 3 for just over year. It was bought used so I was never given a trial and I don’t do enough driving to justify paying the $100 a month (and so I never did). This weekend decided to take a road trip just over 200 miles one way so I decided to see how well it could perform. All I have to say is wow, I’m blown away. I’ve done more driving in my time than most, but if I was a driving instructor observing not knowing a computer was driving I don’t think I would be able to tell. A few hard breaks for skid marks and taking right turns on no turn on reds but frankly I found myself enjoying the ride as a passenger the entire trip. Regardless, I’ve been using autopilot on the highways and FSD with zero nag asking to apply pressure to the steering wheel is a godsend. The occasional pay attention to the road notification for gazing at at mountainsides a few seconds too long were probably warranted, but that’s how comfortable I got with it driving in under 4 hours ride. That’s all just came to say, I’ve never experienced HW4 but I don’t get the hate? As a driver with over a million miles drive time do we even want to be so comfortable with a computer driving we’re not even focusing on the road anymore?

Anyway, throughly impressed and will see how much I use it the rest of the month running around town.

.. And someone, who is parked directly perpendicular to your car starts to back up into your car. Your tesla is stopped, and can't move forward or backwards. Will it honk the horn at the car driving backing up into you?

Title says it all

Hello,

Quick question do you actually need to be subscribed to FSD to have the update pushed for 14 lite to your vehicle? I unsubscribed after many near misses with V12 and said I’d resubscribe with 14 lite.

I don’t have the update pending for my vehicle currently, but I wasn’t sure if Tesla won’t push the FSD update if you’re not subscribed. I’m just trying to avoid subscribing to get the update, paying 100 dollars and finding out id still have V12 for 1-3 months during the rollout.

Thank you!