Tesla FSD Drives Me In The Rain

[00:00:02]Hey everyone, how are you guys doing?

[00:00:03]Hope you guys are doing well.

[00:00:05]Today we're going to be driving my Model 3 using hardware 3 running FSD 12.6.4.

[00:00:11]And it's it's a rainy day today, so it might be challenging for hardware 3 to really uh be perfect today.

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[00:00:26]And the car needs to make this right, so it's going to go a little forward. See if there's cars coming.

[00:00:34]And there is.

[00:00:36]Lexus did not have a signal.

[00:00:40]There's trucks coming, bus coming. I think this might be a good opportunity to go. Let's see if the car does. It doesn't. I could press the gas and I will because there's a backup behind me. So if like you're in a situation where you know the car could go and it's safe to do so, you could press the gas pedal just a little bit and it will nudge your car to start going.

[00:01:02]And now we're accelerating to speed and it's very smooth and it's getting over to the left lane and it does that very well.

[00:01:10]Uh with these rainy conditions like this is still I would consider lighter rain or light rain and um FSD usually is fine with this kind of rain. It's when it's like really heavy and the wipers aren't wiping fast enough.

[00:01:27]If you guys know what I mean like where it's like super hard thick rain and it's like that's when FSD really really struggles because I guess it really can't see anything.

[00:01:38]And sometimes like uh well, I don't know what happened there, but sometimes rain builds up on the cameras and it could you know mess up its visibility like with the pillar cameras. I usually have issues in the rain. It would say like cameras are obstructed or something.

[00:01:55]And like if you go out and clean them, it works, but you know, it's just going to build up again. And it's just uh I guess it's the limitation with um camera-based systems.

[00:02:05]I've heard uh lidar performs better in the rain. I'm not too sure. I've seen a few things. I'm pretty sure lidar is better in the rain. I have no idea.

[00:02:15]If you guys know a little bit more about that, uh be sure to comment down below.

[00:02:19]Um lidar versus camera. I don't think Tesla would ever do lidar.

[00:02:24]They are very against it or something. I think uh they think camera-based is um or they believe camera-based is the the future.

[00:02:32]And maybe it is. I don't know.

[00:02:35]Um the only way we would know is uh with how it performs.

[00:02:40]And right now with heavy rain, it is really bad. Like hardware 3 is really bad. I don't know about the newer ones.

[00:02:45]Maybe the newer cameras, newer newer Teslas are better at rain.

[00:02:49]If you guys have a new Tesla, hardware 4 or whatever, and you guys are running the latest FSD, let me know in the comments. Like, is um is the new Teslas good in the rain? Or does it disengage a lot? It would say take over immediately for me and just say like all the cameras are messed up.

[00:03:08]It's just uh it's just a limitation, you know.

[00:03:11]And I honestly don't even feel that comfortable using FSD in the rain.

[00:03:15]Uh personally, I drive in the rain.

[00:03:17]But when it's lightly raining like this, it's usually fine.

[00:03:22]So, yeah, the car is uh following this Ford very nicely, very smooth.

[00:03:29]We're going to be making a left at this light. So, we're going to have to get over to the left lane. It waits.

[00:03:34]It waits till it sees the the dotted white lines, which is nice. It doesn't get into the suicide lane too early.

[00:03:41]When there's usually a build-up, it does get into the suicide lane. And a lot of people I've been seeing in the comments were debating that.

[00:03:47]But I don't know. It's kind of just your preference. If it does get in the suicide lane, you could just disengage and then do it the way you want.

[00:03:55]But, personally, I just kind of just follow the flow of traffic and how people normally drive.

[00:04:02]We're just waiting to take a left here, and it's um I could see if cars are coming. It's creeping a little bit. This Honda is kind of blocking our view here.

[00:04:14]It's going to see, and there's nothing.

[00:04:18]Little hesitant, little jerky there.

[00:04:20]I guess it couldn't figure out where the where the lane was for the left turn here.

[00:04:26]But, it figured it out, and now we're um cruising back at safety.

[00:04:31]And it's um It's going very well. Following the lanes, even though the road is a lot um or it's it's very wet.

[00:04:44]And it's just following the lanes very well.

[00:04:48]And it's just a just a nice chill rainy day. Like, I know sometimes a lot of you guys might just feel a certain way during the rain, you know, it's just a lazy day.

[00:04:58]I feel that way. I just don't want to do anything on rainy days. I just feel just feel like I want to be in bed all day. But, for those of you who need to go do something, need to get somewhere, need to go to work, need to need to do something during the rain, which just sucks. But, FSD could really really help in these late late rain conditions.

[00:05:22]Um you could just chill out, listen to your music, you know, put on the heat, and just uh get a little warm. I've been soaked in rain.

[00:05:31]I don't really carry an umbrella.

[00:05:33]Probably should.

[00:05:35]But, personally, I just walk in the rain, and I'm just soaked and cold all the time.

[00:05:40]But, FSD really really lets me relax a little bit more in my car.

[00:05:48]And um it's really nice.

[00:05:53]But we're just going along this road just centered.

[00:05:57]It's just doing it exactly how I want it. It's doing it probably how I drive.

[00:06:02]The light's going to turn red soon, so we're going to see some really aggressive braking here.

[00:06:07]It was aggressive, but it was still smooth if that makes any sense. I felt very safe.

[00:06:12]Um we might be a little bit over the line there, but that was fine. The light turned yellow pretty much as late as we possibly could have for a for a safe stop. But it it did stop, which is really nice, so sometimes in those situations where the light turns yellow it's just it's just like do I go? Do I not go? FSD usually usually just brakes, which is nice because it's probably safer to not go through a yellow.

[00:06:44]And um yellow means slow down, so it's good that it's really following that rule.

[00:06:52]And it's kind of cool to see the visualization show um show all the cars taking a left here.

[00:07:00]It's just really awesome.

[00:07:04]I've been seeing a lot of you guys post in the comments how uh you guys are uh getting a new Tesla. You guys are looking to get Tesla. You guys are watching these videos to see what's the experience like. You know, how FSD is, how just how what's the experience of owning a Tesla {slash} EV like is like.

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[00:07:38]And it's uh really awesome. So, if you guys uh if you guys have any questions or any suggestions or like you guys are looking for looking to get a Tesla, just um one part of the buying experience or maybe one part of the car you don't really fully understand and you guys want to you know, ask some questions, put it down in the comments. A lot of us uh a lot of us a lot of the viewers um also have Teslas as well from what I can tell.

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[00:08:32]But now we're getting through this uh this really big intersection.

[00:08:37]It just follows the car that uh the car in front of us, a BMW, and it's just got a little bit of all little bit of water. I I don't like going into puddles, you know? I really feel like the water gets into places it really shouldn't, but you know, the car is not going to do some crazy maneuver to avoid the puddle, but personally, I avoid big puddles.

[00:08:59]But in that situation, there was really no no out there.

[00:09:04]It comes to a complete stop and we're just just waiting waiting in the rain, which is um which is really nice.

[00:09:13]Just hearing the wiper, hearing the rain hit the car. The rain is uh dying down a bit. It was a little bit heavier earlier in the day.

[00:09:21]And um I wish I I wish I had drove during that time, but um as the weather, you know, as weather, you know, gets worse and bad and good and all sorts of stuff, I'm obviously He's to be making videos every single day.

[00:09:37]So, you can see just how uh FSD and Teslas handle, you know, the bad weather.

[00:09:45]The light turns green and we're just accelerating back to speed. Just following this car very smoothly. Giving a really good uh you know, gap between the car in front of us.

[00:09:57]And just slowing back down. And the good thing about electric cars is that slowing down isn't like, you know, wasting energy. It actually gives our energy back, the momentum. Like in a gas car breaking, you know, you wear out your brake pads.

[00:10:11]You uh you know, lose all that momentum that you use to burn gas to get to.

[00:10:17]And just it just feels like electric cars just make sense.

[00:10:21]But yeah, um I'm going to end the video here, guys.

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