Tesla FSD 14.3.3 First Impressions - Critical Disengagement

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]All right, welcome back to another full self-driving video. Today we are in the latest software update with the spring release and also we have FSD 14.3.

[00:00:13]So we're going to see how much improvements, if any, we find with this new software, new point release. I've heard mixed results. Some people love it, some people hate it. uh say that the uh the jitteriness is still there a lot of times, but actually I uh had a lot of jitteriness in 14.3.2, so I'm really hoping that it is improved.

[00:00:45]So, we've got a few different destinations here uh comparing it to previous uh examples. Okay, those were birds right there in front. I'm going to go ahead and save that. Uh, it did not slow down or react to those birds flying at all. So, that's interesting because I know that a lot of people have complained about it breaking a lot for birds. So, I don't know. That's a good example right there of it. I mean, it was, you know, pretty close to those birds, but I did trust that they were gonna fly away and it didn't seem to have any trouble with it. So, that was a good sign in my opinion. Uh, but we'll keep on the lookout for things.

[00:01:34]The other thing that we obviously need to have updated is the navigation and the map data, but definitely doesn't seem in my drive or experience so far that that has been updated. For example, it is 25 miles per hour in the neighborhood and I have it on sloth. So, I don't know, it it just picked 30 because it didn't know. And clearly it would have been on the map to get it.

[00:02:06]Now at least it is switched to 25 when it saw that sign there, but you know that I mean it's got to be in the map data. They got to start getting better map data or start collecting the data themselves based on driving around.

[00:02:28]They got to do something about that because I am I'm a little bit irritated when it will not go the speed that you want it to go just because it doesn't know what the correct speed is.

[00:02:44]But you put that on top of the fact that the speed profiles are still not an exact science. They kind of seem random.

[00:02:54]Sometimes they kind of do whatever they want and sometimes they will harsh break to get you down to the speed that you're that's appropriate.

[00:03:06]So, we do have this new streak.

[00:03:13]And the streak actually um keeps track of how long it's been since you last last disengaged.

[00:03:24]I mean, they can call it intervention streak, right? Uh it just says longest streak. So, it's basically just the longest time that you're in uh FSD. So, it's not I don't know. They don't Some people were saying that it's called an intervention streak. And I would say that it's not because I can, for example, press the accelerator right here and nothing happens. I can put my turn signal on, you know, I can do things like change the navigation, change the uh speed profiles, and press the accelerator, and that doesn't count towards the streak. So, it is just a disengagement streak. So, I did see that Dirty Tesla was showing how you could actually get away with continuing the streak. So you could basically have a streak forever is long as you unbuckled your seat belt before you disengaged and then you could buckle your seat belt back in and then re-engage and it doesn't count that as a disengagement. Obviously that's just, you know, him playing around with like just to see what what would happen with different things and it's kind of funny and I'm sure Tesla is going to patch that up. I don't see any reason for the streak though. It's it really just I mean I guess people can say bragging rights like I have this long a streak, but honestly I intend to continue using FSD the same way I have before. I'm not worried about the streak and how long it is. I just want to uh give valuable feedback to when I disa disengage. So in fact uh I think uh well I don't really want to disengage right here. So, uh, but there's different options now for when you disengage. There's no longer the preference option. Instead, there's an other option. And so, there's basically navigation, parking, critical, or other.

[00:05:28]So, that's a little different. Now, this is a little tricky spot here.

[00:05:34]It's a unprotected left here. We do have a decent amount of cars on the left. So, we don't have a gap. Plus, this guy's turning on the left here. So, can't do anything about that.

[00:05:47]And now we're out in the road.

[00:05:51]So, that was a critical disengagement. It was out in the road and the other cars did have to go around me. So, I had enough time actually to uh to put it in reverse and get back out of the street, but we were in the street and if it was going to go out there, it needed to get in the median and then go.

[00:06:19]We didn't have enough time to wait.

[00:06:26]It's doing it again here. So, we're creeping out. You can see we're just We're not over the line. So, we're still behind the line here, but before we were out in there. Now, we're good. Okay.

[00:06:40]Well, there you go. So, there was a disengagement, and I would consider it a crit critical disengagement because the oncoming traffic from the left. I wish I had gotten that on the uh I'll go ahead and save that on dash cam. Maybe I can get uh some of that on there and see evaluated later. But it seemed critical to me because it was too far out there.

[00:07:03]The cars that were coming from the left did need to slow down and they were going to like get around or whatever.

[00:07:09]But you can't just pause out there in the road. You have to commit to either going or not going and like just waiting for a better opportunity to go. And so that was not the right way to do it. And this is I've put it in these situations that are difficult. Now, it could choose to go different directions that would be easier to do these things. Um, but it chooses to take the hard route almost every time. So, and then here would be here's a good example of where I would not park. So, I would not park at the back of the dry cleaners to go to Dunkin Donuts. It is a valid parking spot supposedly, although it looks suspicious with a cone and like a bucket there like somebody might be using it. Uh this area and we're supposed to be at Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts is here. So, uh I can walk to Dunkin Donuts from here, but there's actually parking on that side of Dunkin Donuts, which would make a lot more sense to be parked in the front, but we're instead parked in the back.

[00:08:21]So, I would normally disengage there. um give that feedback. But I mean, oh well.

[00:08:31]Let's see what it tries to do here. It cannot actually do what it's trying to do.

[00:08:41]Oh, yeah, I can. Okay.

[00:08:44]Yeah. All right. We can do this. We can do this. So again, there'd be a lot easier ways to get across the street instead of just going directly across the street. Um that that's a difficult maneuver, but look, we got a break there. Nobody nobody around. So that actually turned out pretty well.

[00:09:08]Yep. It's a busier day, so I was expecting to at least get some decent interaction with other vehicles. That was uh pretty good there. But we did have our first critical disengagement.

[00:09:19]So, I don't know. 14.3 doesn't seem like it's going to be the one. We uh still have things to get fixed.

[00:09:32]Not just the parking. I mean, there's still situations where I have to take over because I would consider it a critical disengagement.

[00:09:44]So, we're looking for a parking spot. We uh it's a pretty big parking lot because it's attached to this Publix here. So, since it did go right by the front of where we wanted to go first and it's still just looking for a spot, I think this is fine as long as it doesn't park in this handicap spot, which it looks like it's absolutely going to do.

[00:10:11]So yeah, disengage parking continue trip and let's get out of here. So it did park in the handicap spot. So that's a fail. Again, that's not supported. Uh they still need to make those improvements to your choice of parking.

[00:10:34]So like whether you want to be close or far or whether you want to be in a handicap spot or you don't want to be in a handicap spot those things are actually valid things but still as of yet they have not uh not given us the ability to give any of that information to uh the car so that it could do a better job of going to places.

[00:10:59]So we're going to get back out on the road here.

[00:11:02]So, that one I disengaged only because I wanted to give feedback that the parking was bad.

[00:11:14]And I do have it in chill. I guess I should go ahead and put it in standard.

[00:11:20]Maybe that would help a little bit with I don't know.

[00:11:26]Just needs to get a little move on some of these things. We're not going to be in a situation where we're going to be going faster than the speed limit unless it really books it. So, not really too worried about that. But this will be O'Reilly Auto Parts. So, this should be an easy one. And then we'll have another opportunity to go across the street, which again I would never want to do when you have options to just make a right turn and left turn at a light and go into the shopping center. Should be way easier. I would never choose to do it the way it does it. So, and we could park anywhere here, but we're kind of waiting for this truck.

[00:12:12]See what it does here. We're going to back into a space.

[00:12:17]And that truck's kind of waiting to see what we do. So, wonder if you noticed I wasn't driving.

[00:12:27]Probably didn't.

[00:12:29]No.

[00:12:33]All right. So, like I said, next stop, uh, let's not do curbside. Let's parking lot.

[00:12:43]Uh because this is a location that we've it's parked in the back of before just like it did for that Dunkin Donuts. It parked in the back. You shouldn't really park in the back. But for this particular location across the street here, the Spawn's Bakery, uh it did park in the back before for that. And it was I mean it's behind a whole shopping center. So it is there was no parking back there. So it should it should have at least kept going. Okay.

[00:13:13]Interesting. So, we're doing something a little different here. This is actually better because normally it would just try to drive straight across these five lanes here. It's hesitating a little bit for some reason. I don't really know why that curb juts out there. You can see.

[00:13:33]Uh but we're safe from it. It's just uh So, we got This is a much better way to do this than going straight across the street like the other car that we were going to get behind was going to do.

[00:13:50]It's kind of ironic actually because that that truck there was actually looked like they were waiting to go straight across the street and we just blocked them. we would have been behind them. And normally that's what FSD would do here is it would try to go straight across the street. I don't know if it decided not to just because they were already there or what, but it decided it was going to do this this way. And that was I mean a much easier way to do it because you had an opportunity to avoid going straight across and having to wait for both directions. So that was definitely preferred. And it looks like we are going to park in the front of this like we should. So that's good.

[00:14:37]I don't know. It's it's it seems hit and miss on a lot of these things. So we are parking way far away, but we're parking good. I mean, this is like a perfect spot if I wanted to make sure I wasn't around any other cars. So if that was my preference, that would have been perfect.

[00:15:01]It is a little bit of a walk over to the actual restaurant, but you know, like I said, if I wanted to kind of stay away from everybody, that'd be perfect. All right, so we should have gone right to go just across the parking lot would have been easier. Although we could have avoid avoided the speed bumps, I guess by not going there.

[00:15:29]I should go ahead and see if I can get it to um I don't believe that it works anymore.

[00:15:37]if you turn the turn signal on like actually this is a bad example because um I don't think you can really turn left there but I believe they have no longer allowed the overriding of which direction the car goes uh based on your turn signal. So before if you were at a stop sign, you could basically turn on your turn signal and hold the turn signal that direction and it would force it to go that direction even if it was opposite from where it was originally trying to go.

[00:16:18]It was nice for like navigating around neighborhoods and stuff like that.

[00:16:24]um or parking lots where maybe you didn't want to go a certain way that it was trying to go. So, it was able to fix some of those navigation things. Now, so again, this is uh again, we're right back out here where it's going to be difficult to get across the street. We do have the opportunity to use the turn lane out in the middle, but it just doesn't seem to do that anymore. It used to and then it just stopped doing that.

[00:16:51]It looks like this guy across the street is planning on going straight across, which with a trailer. Oh, now he's going to turn left. Maybe he was planning on turning left the whole time. He just didn't have his signal on.

[00:17:05]But I definitely would not try to go straight across with the trailer, especially.

[00:17:12]But turning left here is not not fun.

[00:17:22]And we could have avoided it by going through the parking lot because there is, you know, there was another way to go out of the parking lot that would have avoided getting out onto the street.

[00:17:41]So, personally, I would have disengaged and said navigation a long time ago.

[00:17:50]But we're doing testing. We want to see what it's going to do, how it handles these difficult situations because we are giving it some tests here.

[00:18:00]I mean, it just doesn't look like we're going to have a chance anytime soon. And we're blocking a bunch of people behind us as well. Oh, and just as soon as I say that, we've got the chance. So, we actually get to go. See, we could have just stayed in the turn lane because we actually need to get back in the turn lane. So, we could have actually we could have actually turned a lot earlier by just using that turn lane and that's what it's for.

[00:18:27]And for whatever reason, it doesn't use the turn lane for that anymore.

[00:18:34]Maybe some places you're not supposed to do that, but you're allowed to do that here for sure.

[00:18:42]All right. So, this destination has gotten wrong before, but we do have we do have it uh navigating the red roof in here. And it looks like it's going to get into that parking lot. So, before it actually would go to that pet boys, and that would be no good.

[00:19:00]But looks like here we are in the red roof in parking lot. Now, that's a bad parking job.

[00:19:12]Um, we're pretty close to one side. It didn't pull up as far as we could have.

[00:19:19]So, I would say not not the best parking job. Uh, but we did get here. So, I'm actually uh I want to try something. I'm going to add a stop here to go right back to where we were.

[00:19:37]See how it goes there. See, this is how we should have like and I mean not exactly probably would have gone like down this route. Um, so not exactly how we should have gone there, but definitely how we should have gotten back. So I'm going to go ahead and just go right back to that Bonn's Bakery before our last destination, which is the racetrack.

[00:20:09]Just want to see what it does here because it if it turns right. No, it's going to turn left. All right. So, cuz it has gone behind that shopping center before and that's no good. So, what we should do is it should actually turn uh should have turned right and then left into the parking lot. Instead, we're kind of driving through a couple of businesses here. So, this isn't really ideal to be driving through these instead of, you know, like driving through the main parking lot. Um, but not technically wrong. This is just not ideal, I would say. At least it didn't go in the uh the do not enter spot, which is kind of confusing there. It looks like from the way we were going, it did look like we should be able to go in there, but it said do not enter. So, I think it's like I think it's out only.

[00:21:16]All right. So, we're parking a little bit further away this time, which is fine. And that's interesting that it chose to turn left into these slanted spaces like this. Like, so it's kind of going it was going the wrong direction down this aisle and ended up uh parking here. So, it didn't do a very good job parking because of that. We're very close to one side. So, that's again not great.

[00:21:45]Um, but it made it. So, and since there's nobody else around, we're in front of an an old big lots that is now out of business, so there's no cars anywhere. I mean, I doubt anybody would ever park next to you, so it didn't really matter. But, you know, I don't see why it's difficult for it to get perfectly in the spaces at this point.

[00:22:16]Last destination here. Should be super easy to get to the racetrack.

[00:22:23]So, we had an opportunity to see some uh bird breaking and it did not break for those birds. So, that to me is good.

[00:22:34]It was the only stutteriness that I saw was when there was that weird curb that was kind of jutting out and it kind of looked like it was hesitant to go that way just cuz it was worried about hitting that curb, which I definitely don't want it to hit the curb. So, that's fine. All right. So, that was it. We did a a quick drive, but we did actually have a critical disengagement. It just cannot stop in the road when it's trying to turn left.

[00:23:01]It's got to wait. It's got to wait until it's got a good uh break from both directions. I know those uh unprotected left turns are difficult. Obviously, I don't choose to do them often. If I can avoid them, I will try to avoid them. I mean, I'll even turn right and do a U-turn or whatever if uh if given the opportunity. So definitely I wouldn't fault the car for doing something like that, deciding to turn right or navigate a little different direction just to avoid making a difficult maneuver like that and and extending your trip just a little bit. I mean, I think that's worth it. But if it's going to do that maneuver, it's going to choose to do that unprotected left, then it has to has to commit to getting a good gap and going the whole way or it needs to commit to going into the middle lane and clearing the the one direction and then at turning in. So that's what's weird is like you see all these videos from like Chuck Cook and has these like great unprotected left turns, but it's like it it's like Tesla has just over and over and over again tested in that one unprotected left turn and it doesn't seem to be doing the same behaviors anywhere that I'm seeing. That is still an unprotected left turn. So it's like the same situation. We could have gone and into that intersection and waited for a gap on the other side, but instead it it seemed like it was waiting for everything to be clear to go, but it didn't wait. It started creeping out there to the point where we were actually in the lane and the cars were slowing down and we're going to they were getting out of the lane. Uh, but that's dangerous situation. So, critical disengagement. Anyway, other than that, uh just awkwardness and just doing, you know, doing bad parking jobs like parked in a handicap space and the navigation like it takes the hard way all the time instead of an easier way. But nothing uh critical outside of that one situation.

[00:25:03]So anyway, that's it for this one.

[00:25:04]Thanks so much for watching and we'll catch you on the next