[halyconWays]

While we're sharing anecdotes, I have FSD (13 now) on my model Y and love it. I was anxious at first and remain very guarded while using it (which you're obligated to do anyway) but it's taken away a lot of the tedium and fatigue of commuting and long highway driving. I occasionally use it door-to-door but often turn it off on certain roads, where I'll do a better job avoiding potholes, for example. It's not done anything unsafe, but it did change lanes once without signaling and I had to intervene. No one was around and the lines were hard to see, so perhaps that's why. Overall it feels like a far safer driver than a lot of people I've been in the car with.

[chucknthem]

I feel this way too. It was scary the first couple weeks, but I'm glad I gave it more of a chance. Over time you learn when to trust it and what situations it you need to take over, and then it just becomes a normal part of driving with less stress on me while my brain energy is spent looking for problems instead of keeping up with traffic or in the lane.

Really a human + AI hybrid experience.

[shiftpgdn]

I too have FSD 13 on my CT and use it for 99% of driving with no issues. I have done a number of long city to city drives (30-100+ miles) with zero interventions. The roads would be 10,000x safer if every car was using FSD, even in extreme edge cases like the original post.

[VirusNewbie]

How do you like the CT? Is it your first Tesla?

[shiftpgdn]

It’s fantastic and Tesla service has been really good for the one issue I had over the last １２ months. My wife bought a Model Y in 2021 so it’s the second Tesla in the house.

[jvanderbot]

There are upsides, definitely. For slow moving traffic FSD can remove so much of the tedium of matching speed, spacing, or stop-and-go.

I like the level 1 to level 3 features: Lane keeping, emergency braking (when there's something there), adaptive speed control, etc. But a new minivan has all those too.

For long highway driving it does remove 99% of the things I hate, but there's 1% of the time it just annoys the hell out of me, and it tarnishes the whole experience.

[scottlamb]

> While we're sharing anecdotes, I have FSD (13 now) on my model Y and love it.

At what ratio of good anecdotes to bad anecdotes should we trust it? For me, the ratio has to be astonishingly high, such that if there are a few people in the discussion saying it did something suspect (much less dangerous), they're always going to be the ones I listen to. Not that I'm doubting your experience; it's just not enough to outweigh the other.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/937/

[boomboomsubban]

I have no horse in this race at all, but people seem less likely to tell good anecdotes. There's little interesting in "I used it, it worked adequately."

[tim333]

I guess proper statistics are the thing.