Driven By EVs

This is so on brand for legacy US auto makers. Instead of investing in innovation, etc. they are trying to juice their stock price by moving to the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Why not just rename the company to GM AI and get it over with. 🤣 www.morningbrew.com/stories/gm-m...

It’s hard to tell in this video (I haven’t figured out how to include telemetry data yet), but #TeslaFSD does slow from 75 mph to just under 70 mph as it approaches the vehicle and the overpass. Turns out to be just Border Patrol but does indicate a potential recognition of speed enforcement.

Sometimes I think people are starting to rely on autonomous driving, like #TeslaFSD, so cutting in front of them is no big deal, knowing they will stop or slow down (I tend to walk in front of Waymo’s all the time). Or maybe I am just in too deep and they are drivers that just like taking chances.

These guys are just so unserious. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Even with the glaring sun, these edge cases work. Here is a truck stopped against the curb for some reason. They are clearly over the lane line and #TeslaFSD smoothly moves out of the lane to go around the truck and back into the travel lane, while monitoring the vehicle merging onto the roadway.

Who is going to be responsible for damage, both inside and outside the vehicle, if you submit your vehicle to this fleet? www.notateslaapp.com/news/4879/te...

It’s not that big a deal but I am still impressed Tesla’s FSD wasn’t confused by the BMW in front of me. They were turning into the shopping center, and basically using the same turning lane for the light up ahead, which is where I was going. I thought for sure it would get behind the BMW and wait.

Pulling out of the shopping center, there is an emergency vehicle coming up on my left. It looks like there is a vehicle in the right lane obscuring the line of sight, but as soon as the turn was completed, it was more visible and #TeslaFSD immediately pulled over to let the emergency vehicle pass.

Coming off the I-10, there are a ton of construction barriers and zero lane lines on 7th Avenue. And #TeslaFSD still manages to navigate accurately through the highway exit, into the left turn lane and through the intersection.

"Unfortunately, American access to affordable EVs has been restricted due to dumb tariffs and other barriers intended to keep Americans spending and polluting more." Could not agree more. It's the 70s and 80s all over again. We never learn.

I think there was a bit of an overreaction of #TeslaFSD to the vehicle approaching from the right. Especially, with the oncoming car. However, speeds were slow enough not to worry. But it would have been interesting to know how the car would have reacted if the intersecting vehicle kept going.

It does get a little frustrating, the inconsistency that #TeslaFSD exhibits, and that gets into trust issues. This is an enormous dip at Baristo Road (part of flood control) in Palm Springs. Normally, it sees it and takes it slow, but for some reason today, it decided not to slow down as much.

They are rebuilding this small bridge over a flood runoff canal, along Palm Canyon in Palm Springs. And #TeslaFSD does an amazing job navigating through this mess, crossing into what would be oncoming traffic lanes, over the bridge and back onto the normal flow of the road.

Interesting. Typical of Musk to point blame instead of providing real information. electrek.co/2026/10/13/t...

Because of the truck in the left lane, I didn’t see the emergency vehicle until #TeslaFSD started to slow. And while you can’t tell in the video, there were only the lights … no sirens. To top it off, the blue Bolt ignores the lights and blows past the intersection in front of the police vehicle.

We just need more competition. insideevs.com/news/811797/...

This was a bad day for #TeslaFSD, the second major screw up that day. The traffic controls here are relatively new but it was heading straight for the curb. There aren’t many times where I am taking over because it’s about to do something critically bad, but this was one of them.

I have no idea what #TeslaFSD was going to do here. It totally missed the garage entrance, either due to the sun or confusion on which was the entrance and which was the exit. It looked like it was going to hit the center island. Admittedly, it’s a tight space and difficult even for a human.

There are definitely circumstances where #TeslaFSD is more cautious than I. Here, I probably would have started to turn after the grey minivan, not seeing the red Toyota going through the intersection. Although, how did it know the white pick up was going to turn? Did it see the turn signal?

It was very nice of #TeslaFSD to allow these pedestrians to cross in an unmarked crosswalk with a relatively high flow of vehicle traffic. Fortunately, there wasn’t anybody close behind me so I let it go.

I swear Trump and the Republicans are going to do more to promote EV adoption than any president and party in history. 😂 insideevs.com/news/810941/...

Hardly a misstep from Phoenix to Palm Springs and just as you start to have confident, #TeslaFSD takes a turn, that it’s made a thousand times, too wide. There was no reason for it and the next time, it did it perfectly. It works until it doesn’t and you’ll never know when.

Just another distracted driver cruising along at 80+ mph along I-10 west of Phoenix and #TeslaFSD moves out of the way to let them by.

As #TeslaFSD starts to move on the green light, it definitely hears something. It’s not until you can see it in the left repeater that it stops and waits for the emergency vehicle to safely pass.

Here is a vehicle, not exactly in the roadway, but close enough and still moving. If you watch the front wheels, it’s unclear what this guy is going to do. #TeslaFSD is cautious, moving out of the way to give them room, but not overlay so that it stops. And it does appear to have called it right.

While it has worked in the past, I rarely try this because it’s too inconsistent. Is the software getting better? Was this just lucky? Was there something about this garage that was different? This is one of the times #TeslaFSD successfully navigated out of a parking garage and into the street.

It’s hard to tell in the video, but #TeslaFSD does slow to a crawl for this dip in the road, very similar to how it handles speed bumps now. Anybody know if it’s able to: 1) read the road sign, or 2) see the road elevation change or 3) just got lucky with the different road surfaces?

We are seeing these new Waymo, six generation vehicles all over the Valley. This is Tempe, Arizona and it’s the farthest from downtown I’ve seen so far.

After politely waiting for that couple to cross the street, Tesla’s FSD does some hard braking for a guy coming out of a parking garage (you can see a slight bounce). I’m not sure I would have stopped but only because I didn’t see how fast he was coming down the ramp until he was already there.

It’s nice to see some of the recently added features to #TeslaFSD continue to work with extraordinary consistency. One of them includes approaching emergency vehicles with their sirens on. And it regularly starts to react before I can tell which directions the sirens are coming from.

I thought this was a nice touch. The oncoming truck is so close to the double yellow line, #TeslaFSD delayed merging into the left turn lane until after it passed the truck. Not a big deal but it does show some built-in intelligence.

A lot of my frustration with #TeslaFSD is that it doesn’t drive the way I would. This pedestrian crossing the intersection is clearly on the other side of the double yellow line, so there was plenty of time to make the turn. Once we have true FSD, I won’t care. Until then, overly cautious is good.

Admittedly, #TeslaFSD is getting more impressive. And I find myself trusting it more, which is not necessarily a good thing. I didn’t see the pedestrian standing there waiting so when the car slowed down, I wasn’t sure what it was doing. Now I try not to panic and wait to see what the car will do.

I thought #TeslaFSD did a nice job avoiding this bus. Typically, it does a relatively tight turn at an intersection but because this bus was pulling out of the bus lane at the same time I rounded the corner, it made a split second decision to widen the turn to go around the bus.

After abruptly switching lanes, I assume because of those emergency vehicles on the left, #TeslaFSD hesitated at the next intersection. Given my FSD PTSD, I didn’t know what was happening, so I accelerated through the intersection only to see, and then hear, the emergency vehicle.

It’s hard to tell in the video, but that is definitely a Tesla #Cybercab. It’s the first time I’ve seen one in the wild, actually first time I’ve seen one. I saw it on the same day I saw a #Zoox mapping vehicle in downtown Phoenix.

Caught a #Zoox mapping vehicle in our neighborhood today. I guess they are coming to downtown Phoenix, along with everyone else.

Driving in a downtown area is a challenge. There are multiple pedestrians milling about, and sometimes it’s unclear what they will do next. Also, tons of vehicles all over the place, some parked in travel lanes. In these cases, #TeslaFSD does a meaningful job navigating through all of this.

This road construction was really disruptive as navigation says to make a left here (not sure why it went this way in the first place). Also, I love how #TeslaFSD creeps forward as soon as that guy blocking the intersection starts to move and then, as if he’s not moving fast enough, goes around him.

Sometimes it’s the little things. Here is a relatively small and tight traffic circle which #TeslaFSD handles very well. It’s hard to even see it’s a circle as I approach but I am sure it’s part of the navigational inputs which helps it to understand what to do.

It’s not enough to just give them room, as #TeslaFSD merges over two lanes to go around them. I’m not sure why there is such a precaution … maybe just because there was nobody in the other lanes. But it’s a lot, as it has to then merge back over those two lanes to make the right turn up ahead.

This road construction was really disruptive as navigation says to make a left here (not sure why it went this way in the first place). Also, I love how #TeslaFSD creeps forward as soon as that guy blocking the intersection starts to move and then, as if he’s not moving fast enough, goes around him.

While not a totally uncommon thing, I’ve not seen blowing sand crossing the road like that in a long time and was curious what #TeslaFSD would do. However, it plowed right through even though visibility past the cloud was pretty low. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

As I approached the turn in the center lane, I wasn’t entirely confident what #TeslaFSD would do given that oncoming truck. But I guess this is an example of training data. Also amazing to me, was it must have seen there wasn’t any traffic behind the truck as it hardly hesitated in the turn.

Pulling out of the space, #TeslaFSD does slow trying to game out what the person and shopping cart are going to do. But then it takes the back route out of Costco which is full of all sorts of hazards, like the stuff sticking out of the box. It does manage to take them into consideration…this time.

In tight quarters like this, #TeslaFSD does take chances I never would so I’m super vigilant here. You can see they were starting to turn the wheel back towards the street. I can't decide if it gets it right based on data, it could tell they stopped moving or has just been lucky so far.

Creeping by an accident, the truck to the right is moving over in the lane to give the scene some room. Meanwhile, #TeslaFSD is trying to merge left to both avoid the truck and get into a faster lane. All happening at once which shows, if you trust it, the power of seeing in all directions at once.

Because you see so many idiots stopping on rail tracks, I got a little nervous when #TeslaFSD did it here. Partially, because I wasn’t immediately sure why it was hesitating. But as you can see, there is a pedestrian crossing the street, although it did manage to still cut it a little close.

So many inconsistencies with #TeslaFSD. Here it tries, too early, to enter the turn lane only to find out another driver did it even earlier. To it’s credit, it sees what’s happening two car lengths back, cancels the merge and waits until the line breaks when it’s legally appropriate.

I don’t understand how it does this correctly a million times, and then one day it doesn’t. Here there is nobody to my left, but #TeslaFSD waits until the last minute to merge into the turning lane for this light on Central. While not dangerous, it does highlight inconsistency, which is.