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the hardest one right here
oh ho ho
talk
first time never made it through that
curve my observations I found firmware
7x and all 7x firmware that is was the
best for autopilot keeping in the lines
maintaining lines and curves 7x also has
less ping pong effect wandering back and
forth between the lines
sadly all the 8x firmwares behaved about
the same in the test almost no
difference between them in fact all
eight X Persians are a regression of 7x
where 7x had the above strengths all 8x
firmwares required more driver
intervention and did a overall poor job
of keeping in the lines my personal
opinion is that Tesla's shift to relying
more so on radar more with the 8x
firmwares they are now not using all
available data from the camera as they
once were
this is a sad regression and real-world
autopilot use mirrors this the major
advantage of the 8x firmware though is
accident avoidance and pedestrian
detection which 7x greatly lacked please
see my trying to kill Mike using auto
pilot videos first auto pilot test was
attempting to kill Mike on me 7x
firmware which the vehicle would that
stop and then again on 8x firmware which
the vehicle did a absolutely spectacular
job stopping px reliance on radar also
introduced the x-ray vision radar which
is the ability of the car to actually
see the vehicle two vehicles ahead of
you so head of the vehicle that you're
following also the ability to track up
to 30 objects at a time instead of five
objects at a time a major benefit of
this is when on say the freeway or
following behind another vehicle your
autopilot using 8x would actually
perform better
following another vehicle than it would
following just plain lines and a final
note I found firmware seven did in fact
take longer to get a line lock but did a
better job keeping the line lock
whereas 8x would find a line and lock on
quicker however would more easily lose
those same lines