it was requested that i test full self drive on some more difficult roads so i thought
what's more difficult than downtown chicago traffic so we are currently on u.s highway 41.
heading towards downtown chicago we're going to hyperlapse the video
to downtown chicago and then we shall fire up the full self drive here we go
as we exit the freeway in downtown chicago we're on east ohio street exit i believe
don't know for certain because i don't give any flying f's i hate driving in this city 100
and hopefully gets to the point where i never have to again
especially since we were hit and run on the freeway in 2020
and the illinois tollway would not give us the license plate of the jack cars that hit us okay
vision based distance needs a lot of work it follows even on setting seven way too close
and can't decide if it wants to smash into the parked car or follow this red acura
see what it shows for the boosted board guy just like a pedestrian walking
all right i'm manually going to move us out of the intersection a bit here
shows a car door open on that car shows a couple dudes standing next to that car
i must admit i really am missing uh radar based distance keeping and the ability
for the x-ray radar to see the vehicle in front of the vehicle that you're behind
shows the people on the crosswalk
and i think this is probably the lowest level of traffic i've ever seen in the chicagoland
area i mean we breezed right through and i've come through at this exact same time
on wednesday on a wednesday and i have been it has been bumper to bumper so let's see how we're
going to go after that parked car again nope but we should be making a left-hand turn here
a little shaky cut off the uh opposing or on uh yeah opposing traffic's left turn
oh someone got a parking violation did you see the stickers in the window yeah they're orange
that's why you carry a razor blade with you
scrape off those window stickers oh no it's okay she can talk
yeah
all right we got uh eight tenths of a mile and then we'll be making a right turn
yeah this is this feels this is like covered shutdown levels of traffic right now this is nuts
i mean i was expecting bumper to bumper like it usually is and scooters flying out from everywhere
i saw it now there's one scooter was that a bruno's bird scooters oh yeah i guess there's
the scooters flying out there's two moving shows the guy on the bicycle on the sidewalk
shows people disappearing behind cars as they're crossing the street
okay i hear sirens of some sort and i cracked my window a bit dropped nothing low
streets and sanitation i mean this is downtown chicago so sanitation is non-existent
okay cars moving us over
okay what do we got going on here
guy in front of us not knowing what they're doing i don't know why the
turn signal is on we need to go into the left lane all right we're doing it it did it wow
it was really shaky there god the guy in the uh the backhoe
kind of looks like my old friend frank from high
school got a bad case of sunburn i'll tell you that all those guys do
nothing like uh digging up a big hole in the middle of main street
wait wrong movie the doctor dr detroit when you need him
i'm gonna be turning here okay i gotta take over because i decided not to turn
all right and i am not dealing with one-way streets
okay for some reason it's really liking driving in the middle of the road
which is not good i'm gonna have to manually take over and move us over
because once the oncoming traffic comes there won't be any room to get through
i've been noticing full self drive
when there's no lane line really likes driving right in the smack center of the road
now this is a weird turn on this road here it's more of a l-shaped turn no z-shaped
let's see how it does here
a little hesitant but it made it i'm my balls are sweating bullets right now
wow look at all these lance scooters what's the new piaggio there's a buddy 50 genuine buddy
how to hermes chicago closed for renovations
home of the what twenty thousand dollar handbag ten thousand
you can talk to my viewers i don't know what's today
okay green light
hermes was hit bad during the uh the blm riots they've just got all their windows smashed
and i'm taking over because it just did a little jerking to the opposite side
nope no parking tow zone
um should be on the right side where you need to go so here
and then people just randomly jaywalking all right you might as well hop out
i'll probably park by that ferrari call me
oh it's a honda what a waste of money
okay put this back on
no matter how many times i come to downtown chicago chicago can never get its [ __ ] together
wow full self drive is just going absolutely bonkers right now all right had to take over again
all right since we're no longer on a nav
no turn on red yet they let people walk blocking everybody so the only time you get
to turn is on freaking red yet you can't turn let's pop something back into nav
let's see if we can find a parking space look how many people it shows on the screen
yet there is nowhere near that many which brings into question i'll be doing a separate video on
this one thing i have really noticed is with the vision based system i found a serious flaw
and that is reflections now we're going to be passing all these glass windows on the right here
look how many people it shows standing that's because it is also showing
all the reflections of people in the windows
it might not be the easiest to see
on top of that i have noticed it will also show reflections of cars as actual cars
okay
yeah it's like uh full self drives like having a freaking seizure the way it's driving right now
all right yeah we're just not handling this very well
let's try again should be making a right turn here
are we allowed to turn on red i think so fedex stocked with flashers on people walking
i'm gonna limit maximum speed
just because i am nervous as heck here now let's see if we can make
a right turn but why are we on the left side of the road to make a right turn
okay yeah now i can see why
tesla is trying to avoid
i'm not turning on a full self drive until after this guy crosses in front of me just in case
uh
okay i'm parking
right in front of the police here
that is scary
no parking tow
zone let's see pay it back should i go on the other side
not sure well we're gonna pause the video here i will return once lei is done with her
business and uh she won't be long and then it's time to head out to the supercharger
because i got like 33 miles left and it is i don't know what the screen says 96
um apple says it is 99 outside on 90 ac and it's humid as f we'll be back
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