I've owned my Tesla Model 3 performance
for around three months now and I really
only get two questions about it number
one is an Elon Musk going to jail or
something and number two doesn't really
drive itself let's talk about that
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questions that always come up when
talking about autopilot starting with is
really Drive itself well no at least not
yet I take annoyance with the
nomenclature that is autopilot because I
think it's an inherently misleading term
it means nothing autopilot is merely the
brand name or the umbrella under which
all of Tesla's current and future
autonomy functions will reside all cars
ship with autopilot hardware and
autopilot safety features now I'll talk
about those in a bit but when people
talk about autopilot in 2018 they are
almost always referring to enhanced
autopilot which is a paid option
available today updates come out every
month or so and it continues to improve
and gain new features however the end
goal is fsd or full self-driving
autopilot which tesla says all cars it's
been shipping for the last two years
will one day be capable of however I
have my reservations more on that later
how does that a pilot work well
autopilot includes a front mounted radar
hidden behind the bumper ultrasonic
sensors surrounding the car's perimeter
eight optical cameras and of course the
autopilot computer located inside the
cars dashboard that performs all of a
computational AI now on the cars main
display it actually shows a 360-degree
visualization of the objects around it
and stuff like cars buses SUVs semis
motorcycles cyclists and even
pedestrians all show on screen this
visualization is really pretty cool and
it's handy to see what's in your blind
spot but it's more of an end-user
gimmick what the computer actually sees
is a more object based wireframe that
updates hundreds of times per second
does it stop at stop lights and stop
signs and stuff no it doesn't at least
not yet there are five levels of
autonomy the fifth level requiring zero
human intervention in all driving
scenarios true self driving most would
argue that Tesla's currently at a level
two partial automation so what exactly
is it Kay
Belov well let's get on the road and
I'll show you at a very rudimentary
level autopilot includes what's called
tack or traffic aware cruise control and
that's just radar base cruise control
there's there's nothing special about it
what is special however is auto steer
which you can enable by pulling down on
the drive stock twice so not only is the
vehicle controlling speed but it's also
controlling telemetry now what's really
cool about this is it's a pretty
sophisticated system I can pull down on
the turn stock and I make a lane change
in the vehicle I'm not doing anything
the vehicle changes lanes automatically
and it does actually a really good job
the other thing that's great about the
system is it drives still like a bit of
a robot but like a really good robot it
acts more like a human driver rather
radar based cruise control when someone
cuts you off they oftentimes freak out
and they slam on the brakes this car
doesn't because it knows it's another
car it cut you off no big deal it eases
on the acceleration gains the follow
distance back and you're good to go the
other thing it does it has telemetry
data so when you enter a turn it's not
worried because it just slows down the
vehicle and you don't go rolling into a
turn at 90 miles an hour it's it's
really great does it work when the lane
lines disappear now the system won't
engage unless it sees lines but it does
a really good job in extremely difficult
scenarios a few weeks ago it was pitch
black at night insanely heavy rain like
crazy brain I had a really hard time
seeing the lanes myself but autopilot
didn't it maintained the course
perfectly if the lines are poorly
painted or disappear for a bit the car
generally still maintains course now
that's not to say it's perfect it's
completely useless in snow because it
thinks snow are white lines and errant
lines can really freak the car out let
me show you an example okay so I'm in
autopilot in Auto steer and the car is
going to freak out underneath this
highway underpass because there is cross
traffic up here I don't know if you can
see on the GoPro coming across the
vehicle so there's white lines written
all over the ground and this car I'm
going to put my hand on the steering
wheel because it's going to freak out
tries to follow the lines even though
they are not for
yep see so not ideal so can I just like
sit back and watch the car drive no well
not really
autopilot nags you to wiggle the
steering wheel about every 20 seconds or
so to make sure that you're still paying
attention to the road and Tesla strongly
suggests that you keep your hands on the
steering wheel at all times now there
are systems like Cadillacs new super
cruise then are confident enough to let
you drive hands-free using only infrared
cameras in the steering wheel to make
sure that you're still watching the road
but super cruise only works on roads
that have been manually mapped which
right now is only major interstates
autopilot works on any road with lines
furthermore super cruise doesn't work in
construction or when lane line location
changes and autopilot does so is that it
no no no there's more the new really
cool feature though is navigate on
autopilot which I can enable by pressing
this button and you hear that cheery
little sound and it actually suggests
lane changes by itself so if I click
this that's not the turn signal but it
knows that my exit is coming up here and
this is the coolest part we're gonna see
it automatically changes lanes once I
acknowledge it now if you watch here I'm
not touching anything no hands no feet
nothing's on the steering wheel the car
sees that this is my exit makes the lane
signal change and then actually pulls
off of the freeway this is one of those
things where you're like oh my gosh this
is the future it's amazing and it really
really is cool now Elon Musk says that
in January the car will be capable of
making these lane changes all by itself
right now you have to acknowledge the
lane change and I'm sure that will be
cool when it becomes available but I'm a
little worried for that because it
doesn't seem yet to be super cognizant
of traffic around it so if you have
rapidly approaching vehicles it kind of
just looked broker let's change lanes so
they are going to need to fix that but
the fact that it can basically get on
the freeway and off the freeway and
handle changes and interchanges
automatically is it's amazing alright
that's cool I guess but has it prevented
any accidents yes - in fact I was
driving on the freeway in autopilot and
out of no
where my car just started slowing down
really aggressively and it freaked me
out for a second because I was traveling
at 70 miles an hour on the freeway but
then I saw the car in front of me slam
on its brakes nearly crashing into the
car in front of me
auto pilot was able to see two cars
ahead and slow down aggressively but
safely before the brake lights from the
car in front of me even turned on that
would have been impossible as a human
driver on another occasion actually the
day after I got the car I was driving on
the freeway not in autopilot and some
gentleman was talking on his phone in a
lifted truck sky high in the lane next
to me I wasn't in his blind spot I was I
was right next to him and without even
looking to see that then that Lane next
to him was empty just aggressively
entered my lane now my car saw the
impending crash and it used artificial
intelligence to see that the lane to the
left of me was empty and the vehicle
dodged into the vacant lane which
provided avoided a guaranteed collision
I would have crashed because I didn't
even realize what was happening until
the evasive maneuver had finished it
literally I'm not kidding
saved me from being sideswiped the
second day I owned the car it was
incredible now we're enhanced autopilot
is where all the fun goodies are all
those safety features come standard
which is pretty cool well what are the
limitations honestly there are a lot for
example the car doesn't hug the left
side of the lane in a merge it just
price to center itself in the middle of
the two lanes sometimes it still
randomly breaks when approaching bridges
because the radar gets confused when
changing lanes it often slows down which
is horrible etiquette
don't ever do that navigate on autopilot
is completely oblivious to current
traffic conditions which means during
rush hour the car tries to get right way
too late and the car misses its exit
conversely when there isn't much traffic
on the road the car will ride behind a
semi 15 miles an hour under the speed
limit in the rightmost lane for more
than a mile just so it doesn't miss its
exit completely oblivious now these
things will surely improve in fact many
of the issues that I originally had with
this car when I got it have by and large
been resolved and and that's amazing
it's wild to me that you can buy a car
in 2018 that will learn and improve and
every few weeks get better and add new
features it's a
fun but the question remains is it worth
it now this is going to sound silly but
hear me out it's amazing how good
autopilot is and yet it's amazing how
bad autopilot is when I sit behind the
wheel and see this car take its own
off-ramp exit I can't help but chuckle
to myself and think holy crap this is
the future it was like playing VR for
the first time or using an iPhone for
the first time it's a game changer and
to be fair it legitimately reduces a lot
of the stress and fatigue when driving I
had a ton of energy after driving back
13 hours from Los Angeles where I
normally end up pooped
it's amazing during rush hour when you
can just daydream a bit as you sit and
watch the car do everything as you crawl
forward in monotonous traffic and it is
a ton of fun to play with the new
features as they become available
that said the system is still very
imperfect even at the rudimentary
elementary stuff it promises not to
mention the fact that full self-driving
is extraordinarily more complex with way
more variables even Google aymo the
pinnacle self-driving project still has
occasional issues despite only being
tested in hand map suburbs in Phoenix
Arizona as it stands today
Tesla's really not even close to the
amount of autonomy way mo was that
several years ago and way most not ready
for public release at least not as far
as the public knows it's my estimation
that full self-driving at scale is still
more than a decade away for both the
tech and regulatory approvals to come
into play in the same breath as it
exists today even though it's imperfect
autopilot to me is already worth the
asking price and the fact that it will
continue to improve in years to come is
just icing on the cake and makes this
fun at this car a treat to drive every
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