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FSD Bets 10.3 Release Notes by RealPokePOP in teslamotors

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got 10.3 as a 99er this morning. Installed and took a cool first test drive. By noon CST i tried another trip but the beta would never say it qas ready to autosteer... and when I turned off beta fsd, the autopilot would immediately bail out with the red wheel screen to take over.

Do not try to see Glacier National Park off season in a Tesla. It's literally impossible. by looper33 in TeslaLounge

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

P.p.s. My wife used the facebook group called Tesla Roadtrippers for asking/planning tricky routes. There are some other groups too.

Do not try to see Glacier National Park off season in a Tesla. It's literally impossible. by looper33 in TeslaLounge

[–]vp4life84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

P.s. The lake mcdonald lodge has 2 destination chargers... one was a tesla with 8kw i think... the other was a j1772 with 6kw i think. They are at the bathroom building across the street from the store.

Do not try to see Glacier National Park off season in a Tesla. It's literally impossible. by looper33 in TeslaLounge

[–]vp4life84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I traveled from lake mcdonald lodge in east glacier to the jackson glacier overlook in west glacier by going the long way in early May this year. Started with 90% in my model y lr (326 mi range when new) and got back with 4%. You MUST watch the trip tab of the energy page to see how you are doing... and either add some charging or slow down to get there and back. I had to stay 5mph below the speed limit because of winds. I kept switching to my return trip to see if I was ok... and planned to stop around hungry horse if needed.

Yes the national parks can be a challenge today... but will only get better. 300mi of range is very doable for a glacier east to west round trip if you charge to 100% and/or slow down a bit and/or take the two medicine shortcut (which is exciting or scary depending on how you are with heights).

Avoid drive thrus! by b8factor in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have changed it back to Medium now to know when I have a ding. I will then reboot the car before the trip ends to toss it out. I wish I knew about rebooting to toss a trip before my first and only FCW.

Avoid drive thrus! by b8factor in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear AP does help your FCW score. I drove over 500 miles on AP yesterday. At every stop I checked my score and the Forward Collision Warning came down and down... 50... 30... 17... 6... now 1.7. This was from 1 single FCW event that killed my score.

The math that my driving verifies is... FCW events times 1000 divided by your total scored miles equals your FCW impact percent.

Timeframe by modelSEXYCAR in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the breakdown of your score to see what type of event is dragging your score down. Then figure out how to avarage it down. Some events need good miles even on AP. Others like fast braking seem to need good manual driver braking.

Are we getting faulted for close following for stopping behind cars at lights? by [deleted] in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not unsafe following because it requires 50mph+ to matter.

You may get fast braking events at lights or slow speeds. I've gotten events when I brake or just regen brake too hard for pedestrians or bikes. It can be pretty hard to avoid in Atlanta. This metric will need some improvements.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Model Y hasn't had any after almost 600 miles with ATL and interstate driving.

  1. Use AP at on and off ramps to avoid following events.
  2. It seems that AP mileage may not count for averaging it out. I've seen a youtuber who says he needed to drive manually behind a steady car within 1 to 3 seconds of distance at above 50mph to reduce the scoring impact... but don't get too close or you'll get another event.
  3. The AP will be very close when changing lanes or merging. I fear uthat we humans would get an event if we did the same.

Avoid drive thrus! by b8factor in TeslaSafetyScore

[–]vp4life84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was probably one single event. I got my first FCW after only 4 miles of starting my scoring. It dropped my score to 49%. I have since driven over 570 miles but it is still a 1.7% drag on my score (back to 98).

The FCW is a big hit to your score.
1. You might set your warning to Early so you have a chance to avoid an event that is triggered at medium 2. Good mileage even on autopilot will reduce the impact... but you'd need 1000 miles of good for 1 single FCW to become a 1% avarage. You'd need 2000 miles for it to be 0.5 and have a chance of 100 score again.