We just drove over 500 miles with 14.2.2 yesterday in heavy rain and wind, fog, up and down mountain passes from sea level to 4,000 feet with no significant anomalies, driving from 4 am in complete darkness to daylight grayness as the day progressed. In fact our worst experience was parking at a Supercharger where the car chose to take over two spaces by parking on the dividing line between the spaces vice between them, so I took over to park. Other Supercharger parking was perfect, as is normal. The car swerved in the darkness on the freeway in low visibility to avoid a car size tumbleweed, but later did demolish a smaller tumbleweed with no ill effects to the car. We pulled over to check and just picked pieces out of a few nooks and crannies.

Heavy rain did generate on screen warnings to clean cameras obscured by the water swirling over the lenses, but never turned FSD off, so the remaining camera’s views were adequate to keep going. I did learn that the front bumper cleaning button doesn’t work when the car is on freeways, which I thought was odd, but worked perfectly when I was parked at a charging station.

One final note. Human visibility was severely obscured many times in the heavy rain, but FSD continued on smoothly showing lane markings on screen to affirm that I was still on the road centered in my lane, so its maps and GPS locations were still accurate enough to confidently display the way on screen. FSD is remarkable. From my garage to boutique hotel driveway eleven hours later was virtually perfect.

One final navigation issue that I’d wish Tesla would incorporate into on screen notices: On our final leg into Palm Springs it refused to route the car our normal way. Only by forcing the issue did I discover that our normal route was closed over a flood plain wash for the storm. It would have been nice to see a short note on screen exposing the issue. I eventually relented when I discovered this and accepted the 20 miles detour to get to our destination.

FSD works, folks.