First Drive with Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta 11.4.6
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the host takes viewers on a first-person drive experience with Tesla's FSD beta 11.4.6, navigating through various road conditions including pedestrians, construction, and challenging intersections. The FSD demonstrates impressive handling, with cautious and smooth driving, and only requires minimal human intervention. The host praises Tesla's FSD for its advancements in computer vision and autonomous driving capabilities, highlighting its potential as a game-changer in the self-driving car industry.
Takeaways
- 🚗 The video introduces the new FSD (Full Self-Driving) beta version 11.4.6 and features a first drive to Coit Tower.
- 🧑💻 The driver highlights how the Tesla FSD has become smoother and more cautious compared to earlier versions.
- 🚦 The FSD stops safely for pedestrians and smoothly navigates various driving situations, like offsetting for parked cars and stopping trucks.
- 🛑 Tesla's FSD is praised for its cautious driving behavior, stopping fully at stop signs and interacting well with human drivers and pedestrians.
- 🎮 Tesla FSD is compared to other services like Waymo and Cruise, with the driver stating Tesla is more versatile and useful in most scenarios.
- 👀 Tesla's FSD relies solely on computer vision, which the driver finds impressive given how well it handles complex driving tasks.
- 👨👩👧 The FSD has begun to demonstrate more human-like behaviors, like asserting itself when needed without being overly robotic.
- 🛠 Some challenges with construction zones, complex intersections, and pedestrian-heavy areas were handled well, though improvements on yellow light responses are desired.
- 🔄 Only one manual accelerator press was needed during the drive, making it largely autonomous and smooth.
- 📢 The video encourages viewers to check out the sponsor, Abacus AI, and promotes a referral link for purchasing Tesla with three free months of full self-driving.
Q & A
What is the latest FSD beta version mentioned in the script?
-The latest FSD beta version mentioned in the script is 11.4.6.
What is the main purpose of the first drive in the script?
-The main purpose of the first drive is to test the new FSD beta 11.4.6 and observe its performance during the drive to Coit Tower.
Who is the sponsor mentioned in the script and what do they offer?
-The sponsor mentioned in the script is Abacus AI, which offers an end-to-end ML Ops and AI platform for training custom models without managing infrastructure.
How does the script describe Tesla's FSD compared to Waymo and Cruise?
-The script describes Tesla's FSD as superior in every way that matters, being able to do more with less, and being more useful since it can be used on the driver's actual car at any time.
What safety feature does the script highlight that Tesla FSD performs?
-The script highlights the safety feature of Tesla FSD performing full stops at intersections, which is described as a safety improvement that reduces crashes.
What is the significance of the 'fullness approved stop' mentioned in the script?
-The 'fullness approved stop' is significant because it demonstrates the FSD's ability to stop completely at intersections, which is a behavior not typically seen in human drivers but is considered a safety improvement.
How does the script describe the FSD's handling of pedestrians and other obstacles?
-The script describes the FSD as handling pedestrians and other obstacles smoothly and cautiously, with the ability to make adjustments and avoid abrupt stops when necessary.
What is the script's commentary on the FSD's ability to handle construction and traffic?
-The script commends the FSD's ability to navigate through construction and traffic, noting its careful and assertive behavior in making turns and avoiding obstacles.
What is the script's observation regarding the FSD's behavior at a tricky intersection?
-The script observes that the FSD was cautious at a tricky intersection, obeying traffic rules and being sensitive to the presence of pedestrians and other vehicles.
How does the script evaluate the FSD's overall performance during the drive?
-The script evaluates the FSD's overall performance as impressive, highlighting its ability to handle various road conditions and traffic scenarios with minimal to no human intervention.
What is the script's final verdict on the FSD beta 11.4.6 after the drive?
-The script's final verdict is positive, with the drive being described as 'pretty perfect' with zero takeovers and only one accelerator press, indicating high confidence in the FSD's capabilities.
Outlines
🚗 First Drive with FSD Beta 11.4.6 Begins
The speaker introduces the latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta version 11.4.6 and prepares to take their first drive to Coit Tower. Before starting, they acknowledge their sponsor, Abacus AI, which offers an AI platform for managing machine learning models. As the FSD begins, the speaker notes smoother driving behavior compared to earlier versions, handling traffic lights, and pedestrians carefully. They also compare Tesla FSD favorably to other services like Waymo and Cruise, particularly praising its availability and smoothness.
🚦 Handling Intersections and Pedestrians with Ease
The FSD navigates through Chestnut Street, handling construction and busy pedestrian areas smoothly. The system demonstrates a more assertive driving style, creeping forward at pedestrian crossings to avoid unnecessary delays. The speaker praises its ability to balance caution with efficient driving, particularly noting improvements in recognizing and responding to pedestrians and traffic lights at complex intersections. The FSD's more 'human-like' behavior, such as not slamming on the brakes when unnecessary, is highlighted as a key improvement.
🛣 Complex Driving Challenges and Final Impressions
The final stretch of the drive involves navigating through areas with heavy pedestrian traffic, stopped vehicles, and even birds. The speaker marvels at the FSD's camera-based technology, allowing it to detect and respond to various obstacles effectively. They note a few minor issues, such as hesitation during a yellow light, but overall, the system handled challenges well without safety disengagements. The video ends with a promotion for Tesla's referral program and a mention of the promising future developments in FSD, particularly Alpha V12, currently in testing.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡FSD Beta
💡Pedestrian Detection
💡Computer Vision
💡Disengagement
💡Creeping
💡Occupancy Network
💡Assertive Driving
💡Autonomous Driving
💡Yellow Light Handling
💡Abacus AI
Highlights
Introduction of FSD beta 11.4.6 and the first drive experience.
Navigation to Coit Tower with a more challenging route.
Smooth and cautious driving behavior of FSD, a notable improvement from earlier versions.
FSD's ability to handle pedestrian crossings and car interactions.
Comparison of Tesla FSD with Waymo and Cruise, highlighting Tesla's superior performance.
The convenience of having FSD on an actual car for personal use.
FSD's full stop at intersections, a safety feature not commonly seen with human drivers.
Smooth left turn execution and pedestrian awareness.
Offsetting from a stopped truck and creating a comfortable driving experience.
Crossing Van Ness with caution and smoothness.
FSD's reliance on computer vision alone, showcasing its advanced capabilities.
Handling of a steep road with road work and knocked-over construction signs.
Negotiating a tricky intersection with multiple traffic light considerations.
FSD's smart response to a pedestrian crossing and a car approaching from the opposite direction.
Approaching a challenging situation with construction and a stopped vehicle.
FSD's impressive pedestrian detection and handling of complex urban scenarios.
Unexpected stop due to a misinterpreted traffic light, showcasing the need for improvement in certain scenarios.
Arrival at the destination with a summary of the FSD beta 11.4.6 drive, highlighting its capabilities and areas for improvement.
Promotion of Abacus AI as a sponsor and their end-to-end ML Ops and AI platform.
Transcripts
hey everybody what's going on we've got
a brand new FST beta update here FSD
beta
11.4.6 so I haven't turned it on yet
we're gonna go for our first drive
together
let's see how that goes
take me to Coit Tower
so go to Coit Tower for our first drive
let's maybe try and take a more
challenging route
and uh let's go but before we go huge
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to Coit Tower
so I've turned on FSD
and we are off
looks like we got a green light so we're
going to continue through
very smooth
not accelerating too much and
scaring me like it used to do in some of
the very early versions of FSD it's
become a very smooth cautious careful
driver
looks like we've got some pedestrians
who are crossing the crosswalk right now
so we're gonna wait for them to finish
crossing the crosswalk before we
continue we've also got another car
there
and now that it's clear we're gonna make
a right turn
very good
you know I have to say I've tried waymo
I've tried cruise I've tried Tesla FSD
Tesla's better in every way that matters
they can do more with less
and I love that I can have it on my
actual car and then I can take it
anywhere I want to go
the other self-driving service I have
access to here cruise I can't use right
now because it's daytime
they only open after 9 pm
so that just makes Tesla so much more
useful even though I do have to be here
to supervise
all right fullness approved stop all the
way to zero
you're not going to see human driver
stop like that only robots
and it's got to be a safety Improvement
It's gotta reduce crashes otherwise why
would they even tell us to do that
all right now we're going to make a left
turn here
there's some pedestrians walking around
but it noticed that it was clear oh
there's cars coming there was even
somebody coming on the right side
walking up to their car door in the past
that might have caused it to slam on the
brakes when I saw that pedestrian coming
but it handled that very smoothly
realizing that they weren't going to be
in our way
right now we got a right turn
very good
looks like there's a stop truck up ahead
on the other side of the road
it's offsetting away from that very good
creates a very smooth comfortable
experience
stopping to zero
continuing
another stop truck in the lane to our
right parked in the shoulder
and now we're crossing Van Ness
so far so good
I mean I have to say
disengagements are getting prettier
they're really doing this with just
computer vision
it's kind of incredible
they're actually able to create a
piece of software that can drive better
drive more places
and actually have special less
requirements than anybody else
okay we got a green light
there was a guy walking really close
behind us so I think it kind of uh
slowed down for someone behind us which
is kind of an interesting choice
I think it just decides to act more
cautious anytime there's people around
okay slowing down for the speed bump
that's good
could have slowed down a little bit more
for the first one but for the most part
it was great
went down to about 17.
okay now we're going up this uh very
steep Road here there's a road work
ahead sign
so that sounds like it could potentially
uh
present some challenges depending on
what type of road work they're doing
okay doing a very good job here some
knocked over construction signs
and now we have to make a left turn here
onto Chestnut
oh there's the construction okay
doesn't seem to really be impacting us
okay it's creeping very carefully
there's someone also trying to make a
right on the other side
very good
I'm impressed
okay now there's a lot of pedestrians
over there I think they're trying to go
to Lombard Street
damn tourist okay here's a guy getting
out of his car
we offset for that and now get back over
to the right side of the road very good
now we're waiting for all these
pedestrians to cross but it starts
creeping I like that I don't like when
it would just wait at a dead uh stand
still for pedestrians because that would
create a situation often where um
okay here's someone coming head on so
it's load that's good yeah that would
create a situation often where uh you
know it would never get a chance to go
because people would see you stop and
they would stop yielding to you so even
though there's pedestrians and you're
waiting for them it's good to kind of
assert yourself and start creeping into
the road so people know okay this
person's trying to go so you can see
here there's people who are already
starting a creep we're asserting
ourselves we're communicating to the
people behind us that we're not just
stopped we are trying to go and we're
communicating to the other Crossing
traffic that this person is trying to
get across
so really good how it's starting to do
those kind of more human-like behaviors
rather than driving like a robot and
just slamming on the brakes and stopping
every time you see a person
okay
good
very good
now here's a tricky intersection I've
seen it get confused at this
intersection with Columbus before
because of how the traffic lights are
they're arranged in kind of a confusing
way this is actually a red light but um
you know it's also a no right turn on
red
okay so it is actually obeying the node
right turn on rat so that's good
previously uh that was kind of spotty
okay now the light's green but we have
some pedestrians coming on the right
side so it's being very cautious of them
there's also a guy crossing the street
over there
wow just beautiful
okay here's a guy crossing the street on
the other side
it offset uh over to the right side to
avoid them that was very smart so in the
past it might have like slammed on the
brake which is kind of a stupid way to
respond slamming on the brake and
stomping in the middle of the road until
they cross what it did kind of moving
over
to increase the time
between the intersection of The
Pedestrian and the car and allow the car
to continue that was very smart
it's really happening it's starting to
work
and not just work no safety related
disengagements but
be comfortable too
okay here we got a ton of traffic
approaching
so we're gonna have to wait for all of
this traffic to pass before we complete
our left turn
hope we don't get stuck here
in the intersection
but I like that it did get into the
intersection
so it's asserting that we can make our
left
oh here's the yellow light
okay I'm gonna hold down the accelerator
so that wasn't good that's kind of an
issue that I've noticed where
you know this is like a really common
thing in cities is the light turns
yellow and you often don't get a chance
to go until it turns yellow
so when the light turns yellow and then
red
you need to
go complete the turn if you're in the
intersection you can't just wait in the
middle of the intersection for the next
uh light so I think the autopilot team
knows this but they're just trying to be
conservative and
um you know not rush on a yellow light
when there's people coming there was
also like a guy on a scooter coming so
it wasn't totally clear that it was uh
it was good to go so that can be kind of
challenging but that's something I'd
like to see them improve on is just the
uh
the yellow light situation that's really
common in urban areas okay now here's a
challenging situation we got some
construction on the left and then a
stopped Amazon delivery driver on the
right so we go around the construction
on the left
go around the stop driver on the right I
didn't have to touch a thing
don't you love it wow
you literally you know don't have to do
anything anymore
your car will just do it all for you
all right here's a bird
sometimes I kind of
get nervous for the birds you know they
move out of the way but um
yeah I don't know
I have seen it kind of respond to birds
I think
uh with the occupancy Network okay
here's a guy with their door open
and I've also got a lot of pedestrians
here people trying to cross in front of
behind the car okay you're this person's
getting out of their car this person's
crossing the street
so we're gonna offset we're going to
slow down beautiful
this is such a game changer that you can
do all this with just cameras and we can
ship this into so many cars
it's just so exciting
that you could have such good pedestrian
detection okay here it looks like it
slowed and stopped unnecessarily because
it thought that was a traffic light
oh my God
that bus was a little bit over the line
there so the car stopped but that bus
was just looking really close to the car
so it's a good thing it stopped
all right and we're almost to our
destination now
it's right around the corner here
you can see the Transamerica Pyramid
here's a pedestrian taking pictures
no Lane markings here two directions of
traffic
all right now we're stopping I see a
bunch of pedestrians coming
okay they decided to stop and let me go
and here we are we're at the destination
so there you have it first drive with
FSD beta 1146
zero takeovers
one accelerator press to get it to go
through in a a yellow light
but other than that uh
pretty perfect Drive
so
Bravo Tesla team this is amazing I
can't wait to see what's next this is
just a start and Elon says he's testing
the alpha V12
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