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Where I live isn't particularly challenging to drive (rural Washington), but I'm constantly disengaging FSD for doing silly and dangerous things.

Most notably my driveway meets the road at a blind y intersection, and my Model 3 just blasts out into the road even though you cannot see cross traffic.

FSD stresses me out. It's like I'm monitoring a teenager with their learners permit. I can probably count the number trips where I haven't had to take over on one hand.

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> I'm constantly disengaging FSD for doing silly and dangerous things.

You meant “I disable FSD because it does silly things”

I read “I disable FSD so I can do silly things”

Exactly. Every bad situation I’ve been in with FSD was when I misread the situation and disengaged it during a maneuver that it was handling safely

It feels unlikely that blindly entering cross traffic, as described in the previous post, is going to be a safe maneuver, though.

I use it for 90% of my driving in Austin and it’s incredible

Do you have HW3 or HW4?

The newest FSD on HW4 was very good in my opinion. Multiple 45min+ drives where I don’t need to touch the controls.

Still not paying $8k for it. Or $100 per month. Maybe $50 per month.

It's your sanity (and money) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

HW3, unfortunately. Missed the HW4 refresh by a couple of months.

it's edging into the intersection to get a better view on the camera. it's further than you would normally pull out, but it will NOT pull into traffic.

The software probably has a better idea of their car’s dimensions than a human driver, so will be able to get a better view of traffic by pulling out at just the right distance.

It's not edging; it enters the street going a consistent speed (usually >10mph) from my driveway. The area is heavily wooded, and I don't think it "sees" the cross direction until it's already in the road. Or perhaps the lack of signage or curb make it think it has the right of way.

My neighbor joked that I should install a stop sign at the end of my driveway to make it safer.

Or just manually drive in your own driveway.

The fact that it does't handle some specific person's driveway well is far from a condemnation of the system. I'm far more concerned about it mishandling things on "proper" roads at speed.

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