I find that Model 3 FSD hugs the center line even on roads with a huge amount of lane space, to the point that some cars and trucks will honk at me because they think I’m about to cross over. It also gets confused constantly by badly marked roads and can’t drive for more than a mile or two on complex streets without making some critical error or behaving like a drunk driver. It’s interesting to drive if you watch it like a drivers ed teacher teaching a vision-impaired student’s first lesson. It is not yet an assistive technology (outside of highways) that anyone should be delegating any amount of their attention to, and I wouldn’t want to be walking on a road with people using it that way.
I’ve been in FSD mode with this exact thing of being too close to the line, it’s dangerous. I wasn’t in the driver seat btw. Anyway, one time we were in a low density town and the Tesla swerved from being close to the center line to literally turning into an oncoming vehicle. Out of nowhere on a sunny day. Luckily my driver regained control but that scared me out of wanting to use fsd for years. Scared the shit out of the other driver I’m sure.
I don’t have this issue at all. AutoPilot (not FSD Beta) is not designed for back roads or complex city driving. It’s best on highways and state roads with limited intersections. I do not use it in the city.
The issue I have with AutoPilot is it doesn’t always shy away from poorly driven cars and large trucks in the next lane over. So while a human would be all the way over to the far side of the lane, AutoPilot stays perfectly centered or only slightly shys away from semi-trucks.
