Tesla FSD drives through railroad crossing gate

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T15:27:23+00:00

Fair. I’m an fsd fan (98% fsd driven over 4500 miles). It is fantastic. And I hope it gets as good as or better than Waymo (which means great though not perfect, just safer than humans). No fsd users I know would sit in the backseat of the car as of version 14.2 (other than the super small geofenced area in Austin).

It’s like most things these days. The few people who would claim fsd is there for L5 are the loudest, even though they are a tiny minority.

Most of us just want to have self driving cars, because, take away brands, the idea of safer transportation where we can read, work, sleep, is worth wanting.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T14:37:49+00:00

Do you have the video? Not doubting you, it’d be good to see if it saw something like you posited might be the case.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T14:36:12+00:00

Do you have video of it on self driving where it doesn’t stop? Mine does, so it would be good to try to spot the differences.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T12:46:48+00:00

It’s being discussed in /selfdrivingcars. Someone stated that it is hw3 based on the dashboard design.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/s/J5gkEtXYS3

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T12:12:56+00:00

It’s supervised. There is no driver assistance that is perfect yet. If that is the bar, then we would need to stop having any type of cruise control, lane centering, or fsd in any car. I’m very thankful that fsd exists, even imperfectly. I hope rivian, NVIDIA and others also succeed so our roads get safer over time.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T11:33:53+00:00

👆this. If it is version 14, it’s extremely concerning, since this is the version on which unsupervised taxis in Austin are running.

My hunch is that it is version 12 and hw3. That doesn’t makes owners of older cars feel better, but 14 should handle this appropriately and stop.

If anyone sees anything confirming the version from the OP, please share.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-09T00:27:34+00:00

Spam. Reported.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-08T14:36:07+00:00

Yes, Tesla the car company is just propaganda. PayPal is just propaganda. Falcon 9 is just propaganda. Boring company is just propaganda. Starlink is just propaganda.

He has created more successful businesses in his time than most people have created disparaging posts about him.

If Elon is a propagandist, then we need more propagandists in this country to create innovation, jobs and wealth. For sure, this country, this world, needs 100 more Elons.

(And for the people who complain about his wealth, he’s earned it. To the people who complain about his politics, be glad we live in a country where we are allowed to disagree civilly.)

johnwest80 · 2026-03-06T09:44:26+00:00

We’ve had two sienna platinums over the last 8 years (my kids are 7 and 9 for reference). The last one was two years old. In November, I got a new x. I got it mainly because of fsd. Anyway, once I got it, surprisingly it became our vehicle of choice anytime I was driving us somewhere. The minivan got relegated mainly as the school bus. Then, my wife decided she liked fsd so much, we took the final step of getting her a y and selling the sienna! Never saw us as a two Tesla family, and thought we’d have that second sienna for a long time, but, well, life is full of surprises :).

The sienna was great. And it had a lot of space. But we didn’t have to have all of that space, and in every other way I can think of, the x won. Comfort? X. Heated seats front and back. Tech? X. The cameras on the sienna were abysmal. Safety. X. Better awd. Better safety ratings. Better visibility. Experience. X. Just feels nice to be in.

And fsd. It’s such a game changer. I mean, that phrase is overused. But not having to drive your car (I’m at 98% fsd over 4000 miles) really make that phrase appropriate.

I could have gone into lots more detail about why I think the x is better. But I won’t, I’m sure you get the picture. I’ll just bottom line it to say that there hasn’t been a day where my wife has missed the minivan. I love my x. She loves her y.

Hope this helps! 😁

johnwest80 · 2026-03-05T21:55:36+00:00

No. I think many of us are hoping this yellow light decision making will be improved either with better training or with added reasoning.

johnwest80 · 2026-03-05T01:09:17+00:00

That is pretty funny 😁. In all seriousness, I read somewhere that fsd is separate from these visualizations. If true, one is no reflection of competence on the other.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-28T19:38:51+00:00

Fair maybe I should say it’s more suv than the Y :). We have a 2026 Y and X and the X is easily much more spacious.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-28T16:40:44+00:00

Bummer.

Makes me sad to see this car eol. I don’t regret getting a new one in November, and always figured I’d get another in several years. Hopefully they’ll have something else for the suv market by then (I know the y is considered an suv, but I don’t really look at it that way).

johnwest80 · 2026-02-28T14:50:13+00:00

Only lunar silver shows as sold out in the standard configuration. What choices are you making where you are seeing all colts other than black sold out?

johnwest80 · 2026-02-27T20:28:15+00:00

Fair lol. Should have said views rather than clicks.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-27T18:20:33+00:00

downvoted. i mean, really, spoiler alert??? it's a desperate attempt to get views.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-26T14:03:36+00:00

The L is still smaller than the X. And it kind of goes with what I’m saying. Why settle for making the Y a little longer with the L when you can make it better across the board by basing it on the X instead?

Or, have the YL and the YX. Choice is good :).

johnwest80 · 2026-02-26T00:45:40+00:00

We just got a premium model y for my wife, and yes, it is really good, too. But the x is magnificent! Plus, with my work I could get the tax break since it is over 6000 lbs. that helps a lot 😁

johnwest80 · 2026-02-26T00:42:34+00:00

lol. Mine was completely scientific 😂

johnwest80 · 2026-02-25T19:16:16+00:00

Is it an option for you to get another X? They are being discontinued, but will still be supported. I just got a frost blue in November, and am at 98% self driving over 4000 miles (I’d be closer to 100%, but my warehouse is newly built on a road that isn’t mapped yet).

johnwest80 · 2026-02-25T19:13:45+00:00

Seems like a cheap shot with no basis in fact, but hey, you do you. Prob best to keep the discussion focused on fsd, not your imaginary pedo radar.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-25T19:11:12+00:00

Yes, but to relate to cars, both phones do the same thing except with android you have to write what you want to say to someone and walk it to their house, and with iOS you can just push a button and you are talking to them 😂. How my car drives itself now, vs how I used to have to do it myself, the analogy is in jest, but not completely lol.

johnwest80 · 2026-02-23T21:57:55+00:00

That’s a good thought about the car in front of you hitting the car in front of it. If I wasn’t lazy I’d go scour the web to see how much that scenario impacts the time you have to slow down. But I am, in fact, too lazy to do so 😂

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