FIRST EVER Coast-to-Coast Across Denmark on Tesla FSD Supervised Mind-Blowing

[00:00:03]Hi and welcome to Best in Tesla. So today we are going to do the first ever coast to coast drive here in Denmark on full cell driving because there has been a lot of talk here in Europe about the system and how safe it really is. But some of the questions that the politicians and the organizations are asking has already been answered if they just did like 2 minutes of research or got their butts in the seas and tested it out themsel. And that is exactly what we're going to do today. Coast to coast from the east coast to the west coast of Jutland here in Denmark. It is not a big country like in the US, but we're still going to throw basically everything at it. We're talking about country roads, cities, construction road, highways, and so on. on and of course a thousands of roundabouts as this is Denmark after all. So instead of just letting you watch one and a half hour of me driving or the car driving, I am of course going to be talking about the system, how it works and how it is supervised, but it's also supervising you to make sure that you are supervising it. So this system is extremely safe and it has already been proven and tested by a third party.

[00:01:16]So there is really no doubt anymore. And now I'm going to show it to you as well in this video. So let's get the car on the road and let the full self-driving do the talking. Well, I am of course also going to be doing a little bit of talking myself, showing you the system, what it can do, what safety features there are, and how it handles this stretch from coast to coast here in Denmark. So let's check it all out and let's dive right in.

[00:02:00]All right, let's get this show on the road. Do the first ever coast to coast in Denmark on full self-driving. Put in the destination. All I have to do is press start and let's see how it does from my garage to the west coast.

[00:02:25]The only other real long drive I've done so far is half an hour where I drove my son to his acting class yesterday and uh it had roundabouts, it had highways, it has construction work. So, and it actually ended up parking in the parking lot, but the parking is not perfect. It didn't go f far enough into the parking lot in my opinion, but other than that, it did a very amazing job. But let me talk a little bit about the system and how it works. Because first of all, many people think that the system isn't safe.

[00:02:57]Well, firstly, you have to watch this 6 to 8 minute long video that you have to watch before the system will even start working in your car. So, you can't just turn it on and drive around. You have to watch this presentation.

[00:03:11]And by the end of the presentation, there is a tiny little quiz with two questions, two pictures that shows the system on and the system off. And you have to choose where the system is on. So that you have shown that you know when the system in is on or off. Then it has a little question about when the system is on. Are you still responsible for the car and the driving? And of course you have to answer yes. So you have already before you turn it on, confirm that you know how the system works. You've seen the whole video and you confirm that you are responsible for the driving. But these organizations is also coming out saying that the system has been approved on Tesla's data and not and need to be tested on a third party organization.

[00:04:03]Dear organizations, you need to pay a little bit attention because your first question from the ETSC organization was, has it been tested by third parties? And the question is clearly, yes, it has been tested by the Netherlands road authorities, the RDW.

[00:04:24]They have not approved the system on Tesla's data. They have made 3,000 hours of testing. They have been driving that system for 1.6 6 million kilometers.

[00:04:34]They have been testing that on test tracks and on public roads and they have been doing that for 18 months for one and a half years. So they have their own data and they came up with the conclusion that this increases road safety.

[00:04:51]But then we have politicians in Norway saying, "Well, Tesla's data shows that it's seven times safer in the US, but only three and a half times safer in Holland." So that is contradicting each other. Why are they not the same? Well, it's data first of all from two different countries. So the average driver in the US is different from the average driver in Holland. But then it's also but they also using data from everything from average. So it's also like from old cars and using every accident in the whole system from average drivers in the US and then they compare that with a new car with a driver assist system. That's not fair.

[00:05:31]It's cherrypicking the data. Well, they are using the average human driver in the US. How are they doing compared to Tesla system when it's turned on? So sure you can call the cherry-picking but they are angry about the two systems or the two reports not being identical from two different countries two different data sets but and they are both saying they are more than three times safer. So they are angry that it's safer than a human driver no matter how you look at it.

[00:06:03]So that's why some politicians are saying in Norway we should not allow it here because they have two data sets that are contradicting each other. No, they're not contradicting each other just on how safe it is. Is it two times, three times, seven times, eight times?

[00:06:16]It doesn't really matter. It's safer.

[00:06:18]But our Norwegian drivers are well educated. So, we don't get into many accidents. Nope, you don't. But you do kill 100 people every year in traffic in Norway. And apparently the politician don't want a system that can help reduce those lives being killed. So this system will save lives. There's no doubt about it. It is not just a system driving unsupervised. It is the system together with the human. And we together is a very good tag team here because it can see 360° around the car all the time, all at once, and is never distracted, never get fatigued, never drives drunk. It just drives. Sometimes it can misunderstand things because it's simply just a AI system that is um or it's not it is an AI system but it's not as clever as this brain up here right now. Some might say it is but um it's just the AI system can get confused and if it does I am here to help it. So together this is much much safer because it's also driving so calmly. It's not aggressive. It don't get angry. It don't get emotional, it just drives.

[00:07:35]So, of course, this system will save lives just as the seat belt did. But I would say this system will save more lives than the seat belts. And it have been tested by third parties. So, all of that, let's get that out of the way.

[00:07:49]Now, we out here on the road testing it ourself. And it is doing a great job so far. We have already been on small roads, on highways, roundabouts, mergers, and it just drives calmly. I just have to sit here and watch it and talk to you guys.

[00:08:07]Boring.

[00:08:10]This is so uneventful. It just drives so calm and so smoothly.

[00:08:16]But can I just take a second to just be excited about that? My car is actually driving itself. And right now so far half an hour in it is driving itself across the country.

[00:08:30]No incidents. This is just such an amazing time to be alive. Our cars are driving themselves. Amazing. Oh Teslas are driving themselves.

[00:08:43]And even though Tesla and Elona Musk gets a lot of hate for being late on full self-driving, well, people tend to forget that basically every other automaker have been claiming the same thing. They have been claiming they would have full self driving in 2018, then in 2020, 2021, and 2025. There's a long list of automakers that have been claiming they would have full self-driving cars by now. Audi also said they would have full self driving capabilities here in 2026. They are not even close. So sure Tesla has been late but right now I am literally sitting in a self-driving car that I have to supervise but it is doing all the driving. So far I have done nothing like literally nothing. It is just driving more calmly and smoothly than I do.

[00:09:39]Roundabouts.

[00:09:42]This is something I tried to get my old system to do so many times, but it just couldn't handle it. And now it's nothing. Easy peasy.

[00:09:58]The system is doing great, but the human driver in front of me just went off the road and back in. Just a good showcase of being distracted and not being distracted.

[00:10:09]One thing the system is not so good at so far is parking itself. Here in Denmark, it has not been doing a great job. It can park itself, but it usually doesn't pull f far enough into the the parking lots and stuff like that. And sometime it just wobbles all over the place. don't really know what to do. But Elon has just confirmed on X that in a future update, it will actually be able to remember your preferred parking uh at different destinations. So, that's pretty cool. So, I can show it that I want to back into my garage and park there because I wanted to be able to plug in the charger. So, that's going to be a very nice update to the system that it knows how I want to park in these different locations. That's pretty cool.

[00:10:55]And he has also been saying that in a few months, three months, so probably 6 months, we will have the croc integration where you can talk to the car while it's driving and say, "No, no, no, don't go down there or go up and let me off at the entrance and then go find a parking spot and stuff like that." So, that's going to be a really nice update.

[00:11:14]But that's the whole point about the system, right? This is when it's driving me around here in Denmark, coast to coast. This is as bad as the system will ever be. It is only going to get better and better every day. Every day Tesla's system, because collectively from all their 9 million vehicles, they're collecting about 500 years of driving experience every single day. So it might be getting close to human level of driving in these scenarios. They are better than human driving. But there are incidents where it's not intelligent enough uh to understand what exactly to do in this parking lot or how I would handle it anyway. But that is going to change over the next few years because the system is only going to become extremely good going forward as it collects as it gets data from the entire fleet every single day. So it's not just my car driving and learning how to drive. Now this car together with the 9 million vehicles are collecting data every single day. Not only when we're using it as full self driving like I'm using it right now. Tesla is also collecting data in what they call shadow mode. So that's when you are driving, well then the car is supervising you and trying to guess what you're going to do.

[00:12:35]And if it gets wrong, but no, he didn't do that. He did this. Then the system will send that back to Tesla and they can analyze it and see what what what did go wrong here. Is it an intersection or a roundabout that the system doesn't really understand too well? Well, okay.

[00:12:50]Then they just fetch millions of examples or or thousands of examples anyway um from the entire fleet and saying we need these kind of incidents and then they're going to collect that throw it into the system and teach the car how to do this because this is how this system have learned how to drive.

[00:13:09]This system is not like many other systems that have been taught how to drive by programming. If this then that if this happens you do this. No, in um 2024, Tesla came out with this version of the build where it was uh AI, 100% AI that have learned how to drive the car and is driving the car. Um on highway, it was still the old stack that came later. I think it was 2095 when the highway was also 100% AI and now today everything is 100% AI driving the car and it has learned to drive the car by watching videos. So nobody has ever programmed or told it this is a stop sign. This is lines on the road. They have simply just showed it how we are driving. Millions of millions of miles actually billions of miles. They have collected over 11 billion miles so far on full self driving. That's not including shadow mode. So they have fed that data to the system and the system have learned how to drive itself by watching videos. And that's why it's driving so humans humans because it have learned to drive from us by watching us drive the car. Let me just show you how aggressive the system really is when it comes to supervising you supervising it.

[00:14:30]But if I'm looking down here trying to look through some music here, what do I want to listen to? All right. Now it is blinking at me now. Beeping saying pay attention to the road. Yes. Yes, sir.

[00:14:42]will do.

[00:14:45]>> Well, in the US, it actually saved a guy, not because it avoided an accident or actually probably did because a guy was having a heart attack in the car when he was driving or the full self driving was turned on and the car was driving, but then he called his son on the highway and said, "I am in trouble."

[00:15:04]I reported on this a few months back, but Tesla has now just revealed a video about it. And the guy in the car getting a heart attack told his son that I'm in trouble and the son took the app on the phone and redirected the car to the nearest hospital. The car turned around and drove him to the hospital. The son called ahead to the hospital and said, "My father is coming. I think he's having a heart attack, but the car is driving him to the hospital." And they were there ready to take him in and they saved his life. And the doctor said that it was a matter of minutes before that guy would have a heart attack and die.

[00:15:37]So literally the car drove to the hospital and saved that man's life. It's not just safe in traffic. It also saved life because it's just a capable system.

[00:15:48]But the politicians and the organizations can scream all they want.

[00:15:52]But other than RDW that have already been testing the system, a third party organization, we also have the official channels like Nitsa in the US and R and uh Europe here in Europe. And according to them, Tesla has the safest car on the planet. Not just in car crashes and if you are in a car crash, but it's also one of the best cars in the planet to avoid car crashes. It scores the highest in driver assist features. This system is just very safe no matter how you look at it. So, this is an interesting little spot where there are some rope works and they have put up this temporary uh traffic light and it just turned red as we went up to it and the car stopped safely and nicely here and now waiting uh for the other cars to pass and then hopefully it will be able to do this.

[00:16:42]Well, that means driving over these um full up full lines on the road and going around the whole thing. So, let's see if it can handle this kind of uh road work.

[00:16:55]5 4 3 2 Yellow light. Oh, go go go go.

[00:17:01]Yes. Yes, it did it. A little wobbly start, but it it went driving over the over the lines and everything. No issues. No issues whatsoever.

[00:17:16]The biggest issue so far on this road trip is I have run out of coffee.

[00:17:24]>> Yeah, the haters is always going to hate. So let's like stuff like your heart like it feels good. Let it grow.

[00:17:50]>> More roundabouts and a lot of other cars being driven by humans. Feels unsafe.

[00:18:00]>> We have basically done it now. 2 minutes left. 1 kilometers left.

[00:18:06]>> No interventions.

[00:18:08]No drama. No issues.

[00:18:10]The guy have just roown itself across the country.

[00:18:15]Damn, that's one hell of a system.

[00:18:20]>> It's blinking. Yep. Good boy.

[00:18:28]getting out of maybe the last roundabout >> soon.

[00:18:35]And I have set it to a parking lot in here. So, let's see if it can handle it.

[00:18:40]So, I have to take over the last few meters. There we go.

[00:18:47]And unlike humans, it starts when it gets green, not when it's yellow. and people start driving. You know, it it's a very polite and law-abiding driver.

[00:19:02]Yes. Very nice.

[00:19:05]Good driving. And Oh, yeah. It's up here. Okay. I see. Oh, dog. Dogs.

[00:19:12]Ah, doesn't panic. No issue at all.

[00:19:17]And up here at the parking lot, let's see what it's picking. If it's picking anything. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't know what to pick. So many options.

[00:19:33]Yeah.

[00:19:37]And >> forward. Go further. Go further.

[00:19:42]It's not happy. It's not happy.

[00:19:45]What the hell are you doing now? You don't want to park here?

[00:19:52]>> Oh, no more power. Whoa. Where you going?

[00:19:58]Where? Where the hell are you going?

[00:20:03]You can't do that.

[00:20:06]So, the camera just beeped. So, no more footage from that one. I think it ran out of juice.

[00:20:15]But um yeah, as you can see, this is not dangerous or any issues, but uh finding a parking lot seems to be difficult for the poor little system. Let's see. Is it going to back in here? Oh, yeah. I think so. Let's see. Cuz like I said in the beginning, this is the only issue right now. It's not very good at at parking just yet.

[00:20:39]I should probably take it out of full cell driving and then pick a parking lot just using the smart summon feature instead of the automatic parking feature. But let's just see what it does if it if it ever gives up. You're right there, man. You're right there. Just go in. Yeah, you can do it.

[00:21:00]Oh, man.

[00:21:02]Yeah, they need to work on parking.

[00:21:10]Oh, what the hell? Where are you going now? Where Where do you want to park?

[00:21:17]This one. Okay, let's see. Let's give it last shot. No, you were there. Just keep going. What are you doing?

[00:21:26]No. No. You're not doing it. You're not doing it. Just keep driving around. Oh, man. This is going to take forever.

[00:21:34]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:21:36]You can just park here.

[00:21:39]Is that it? There we go. Good boy.

[00:21:45]The biggest problem was um finding the parking spot, but you know, I could just have taken over. This is me letting the system do this kind of stuff. But we made it.

[00:21:59]We on the West Coast cross country. I think that was the first ever cross country in Denmark from the east coast to the west coast of Jutland.

[00:22:10]No issues, no intervention, just pure safe, calm for self driving.

[00:22:18]So that was it. We made it all the way from the east coast to the west coast using only full self driving. No issues, no intervention. We went on highway, country road, cities. There was construction work that we have to stop at a temporary stoplight and a thousand roundabouts. But the full self driving system handled it all with ease and a calm like basically no other human driver would. We saw a few incident where a human driver were distracted and swelled off the road a bit, but this system handled it all. And I do believe that was the first ever coast to coast here in Denmark. And if you don't believe all of this, well, get your butt in a Tesla and test out the system for yourself or look at all the data available already from organizations like RTW.

[00:23:13]Well, I of course have to go home again.

[00:23:16]So, that will be swiping that one.

[00:23:20]Calculating the home route. Yes, please.

[00:23:23]and stop full self driving.

[00:23:28]All right, car, take me home.

[00:23:33]You got to enjoy this, right?

[00:23:36]Oh, this is awesome.

[00:23:38]Small, tiny country roads, pedestrian, dogs, bumps, speed bumps. It just don't care.

[00:23:46]It handles everything.

[00:23:50]God, I like this system.

[00:23:55]It makes driving so easy, so relaxed.

[00:23:58]Oh, humans completely filling the whole road.

[00:24:04]But the system don't care. It just keeps on driving. Oh, there we go. Boop.

[00:24:11]It's so good.

[00:24:14]And just like that, we back home.

[00:24:19]crossed the country twice now with no intervention, no issues, the car just driving. This just feels like an autonomous vehicle. But yes, you have to pay attention and the car will remind you. Oh my god, a little bit too aggressive in my opinion. But anyway, better safe than sorry. But uh yeah, I'm back home now. It crossed the country twice with no intervention.

[00:24:44]What an amazing piece of software.

[00:24:50]And there we go.

[00:24:52]My car is home.

[00:24:57]And I of course going to do the parking.

[00:24:59]I don't want that to do that.

[00:25:02]So cross the country twice. No intervention. But that is all for this video. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, don't forget to hit that like button. It really does help this video out a lot so others can find it on YouTube. But until next time, take care out there and be nice.