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00:00A new version of full self-driving has arrived, and for the first time in quite a while we
00:04have some actual release notes about changes, which is super nice to see.
00:09My favorite, besides end-to-end on highway, being the addition of updated driver profiles.
00:14So now we have Chill, which drives in slower lanes with minimal lane changes, Standard,
00:19which drives at normal speed and adjusts with traffic, and a brand new one called Hurry
00:24that replaced the old Assertive mode that drives faster with more frequent lane changes.
00:30Something that wasn't in the release notes that I noticed instantly was that the visualizations
00:35that display other vehicles seem dramatically smoother than ever before.
00:40I, like many others, assumed this was probably accomplished by using more resources and processing
00:45power, but Ashok, the head honcho of the Autopilot team, said it was achieved by fixing a four-year-old
00:51bug in the renderer, which makes me think that this improvement will likely come to
00:55more than just hardware 4 vehicles.
00:58This ended up being a much larger update than I expected, and I can't wait to show you my
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02:16Alright, first drive with full self-driving 12.5.6.
02:21I should point out that this is a hardware 4 vehicle, and I'm using the new hurry mode.
02:26You can see I started this drive in the car wash parking lot, and it has to get through
02:30this gate to leave, and it seems very confident about approaching and then driving through
02:35this gate, which actually was pretty surprising.
02:38I have tried that on older versions, and it seemed to slow down for the gate a lot more
02:42until it was fully opened and then kind of creeped through, but that time it just went
02:46through no problem.
02:48Another change I noticed in this area is right up here.
02:51There's a stop line by this stop sign on the ground that makes no sense.
02:54It's way too far back, and for the first time, full self-driving actually ignores the stop
02:59line, and it stops where it can see traffic approaching from the left.
03:03This is a massive improvement, especially in that particular area.
03:07Unfortunately, it's not very consistent though, because it was stopping at the stop lines
03:12for the rest of this drive, but it does seem to stop a little bit more forward in general.
03:17Pretty awkward situation up here where this truck finds itself on the wrong lane and is
03:20trying to move over, but full self-driving doesn't actually brake for it.
03:24It kind of just moves over into this left-hand lane.
03:27What you can't see was there was actually a van approaching very quickly behind us,
03:31which is why I think it may not have slammed on the brakes, but honestly I'm not 100% sure
03:37about that one, but a pretty odd maneuver.
03:40It is now forced to do a U-turn to get us heading back in the right direction, and it
03:44doesn't pull far enough into this intersection.
03:47It would have a much easier time if it pulled just a little bit more forward, but you can
03:51see it cuts it really tight where it has to deal with this curb here.
03:55It does complete the entire thing all on its own, albeit a little bit slow and awkward.
04:00Now I've mentioned before that I don't think the driver profiles that we talked about work
04:03anywhere but the highway, and I still think that's the case, but I did have a situation
04:08that made me think twice.
04:10We're approaching this slow-moving truck, and we also have a car into our neighboring
04:14lane that's coming up pretty quickly behind us, and you can see as soon as they pass it
04:18goes ahead and turns on its turn signal to get around it, and then even goes back into
04:23its original lane right after.
04:26That was very well executed, and is exactly what I'd expect from a mode called hurry.
04:31Unfortunately though, I think that was probably just a fluke, and we'll talk about the driver
04:35profiles a little bit more later.
04:37But first, just keep your eye on the visualizations, especially looking at other cars.
04:42They are unbelievably smooth now.
04:45It actually seems to me like the vehicles update at a higher frame rate than even the
04:50ground markings and the streets being visualized, which is pretty wild.
04:56I also wanted to mention I'm not going to be spending as much time as I usually do on
05:00this video with editing.
05:01You can see I'm kind of missing the turn signal visualizations and stuff, and that's because
05:05I honestly didn't even plan to record this video, but this version was a much bigger
05:11update than anticipated, and I figured I had to give you guys at least one drive before
05:16attending the RoboTaxi event, and we'll talk about the RoboTaxi event a little bit later.
05:21I always like to point out these little areas where I notice it being extra smooth.
05:25You can see how it's slowing to a stop up here to stop behind this car, but then the
05:30light turns green, and the interesting thing here is that it never actually comes to a
05:35full stop.
05:36You can see it stays at one mile an hour the entire time.
05:39It's just creeping up, anticipating that these other vehicles are going to start moving.
05:44And I know stuff like that seems pretty small, and I do get a fair amount of comments of
05:50people complaining, like, why is this guy talking about these nonsense things?
05:54But honestly, I think it does go a long way as far as driver comfort, and it really makes
05:59the car feel like it knows what it's doing when it's anticipating that well.
06:04This is my first time going on the highway with the brand new end-to-end system.
06:09No more heuristic code controlling on the highways.
06:13You can see a message on the bottom of the screen displaying our driver profile mode
06:18saying hurry there.
06:19I assume this means that the driver profiles are still only affecting highway, and not
06:24when you're driving on city streets.
06:26The other thing that you'll notice is that even though the max speed is set to 78, the
06:31car seems pretty happy going right around 70 miles an hour.
06:36So I know there was a lot of you that were really hoping that the car would just go whatever
06:41speed you tell it to, like if you set it to 80 or 85 miles an hour, it would instantly
06:46just get there, but unfortunately that is not the case, and that is not how it works.
06:51My first impressions right out of the gate were that it didn't really feel like it was
06:55in a hurry, but there was some things, like you can see this traffic about to merge in
06:59here and the car preemptively changes lanes and speeds up a little bit to go around them.
07:04It does seem to take quite a bit longer for the car to get all the way up to the set speed,
07:11at least compared to the old version of the highway autopilot, but eventually it does.
07:15You can see after quite a while, it does end up going 78 miles an hour to get to our
07:20set speed.
07:21And this area right here I'm slowing down because this was an area with some kind of
07:25mapping error where it would constantly try to get all the way over into the right hand
07:30lanes to quote unquote follow the route, and then a few hundred feet later it would merge
07:34all the way back over to the left here, and this version finally fixes that.
07:41Another interesting thing to note about that is that there's actually no longer any messages
07:46indicating why the car is doing what it's doing.
07:49For example, it used to say things like changing lanes to follow route or changing lanes to
07:55get into a faster lane, but since the highway stack has moved to a completely AI end to
08:01end system, the car can't really describe why it's doing what it's doing anymore and
08:07instead just kind of does it.
08:09You can see it did a pretty good job of getting us all the way over to the right hand lane
08:13to take this exit well before the exit got here, which was something that was in the
08:18release notes, like more natural lane changes.
08:21But again, I think that's something that only applies on the highway and not on city streets
08:27as we'll see in a bit.
08:28We have a left turn into an immediate right turn and you can see it has to go through
08:32a fairly stale yellow light.
08:36It was absolutely fine, definitely still legal, but I would have expected it to slam on the
08:40brakes in a situation like that, but I'm actually kind of glad that it didn't.
08:44Some oddity in the speed control up here where you can see the speed limit's 35 and it has
08:49a max speed of 42 and even after going past this 25 mile an hour speed limit sign, the
08:55max speed stays at 42.
08:58This was fine because I assure you nobody actually goes 25 through this zone and the
09:03speed limits kind of change here and there pretty frequently, but just interesting to
09:07note and you can also see the max speed change again as we approach this intersection.
09:12It goes from 42 to 38.
09:15I have it set to go 20% over the speed limit and 38 is definitely a lot more than 20% of
09:2125, so I'm really not sure what exactly is controlling the max speed.
09:27Our destination was set into this housing development off to the right because I know
09:31I've driven through this exact area on previous videos and I was curious to see if we'd notice
09:36any differences through these areas.
09:39Does have a little bit of a moment here where it comes to nearly a full stop at this intersection
09:45when it wasn't really required.
09:47There is no stop sign there, but also doing a much better job than the last time we went
09:52through here at slowing down for these speed bumps, going a nice and appropriate speed
09:57even though they were covered by shadows and are kind of difficult to see compared
10:01to some other ones doing a really nice job slowing way down.
10:06You can see again right here going nice and slow and I'm going to go ahead and fast forward
10:11through this next portion of the video because the car got itself into a bit of a loop.
10:16You can see it missed its destination off behind us.
10:19It didn't pull over in time and goes around the block and then misses it again.
10:24So instead of continuing this endless loop, I go ahead and just give it a new destination
10:30so it can get itself out of this area.
10:33Definitely a little bit more work to be done in the pickup and drop off areas of full self-driving.
10:39We can't have robo taxis just circling around a neighborhood indefinitely.
10:43As we make this right hand turn, the car immediately gets itself into the left hand lane, which
10:48I thought was a little bit odd until I spotted the pedestrian that was standing in the middle
10:53of the street.
10:54And that's definitely one area where full self-driving has an edge over humans because
10:59my attention was to the left for approaching traffic and it knew way before me.
11:04Doing a really nice job slowing but not overreacting for the scooter who kind of pulled out in
11:09front of us and was going across the street.
11:11And I also wanted to point out that the driver in front of us seems to think that there's
11:14a stop sign at this next intersection when there's not.
11:18So I know I just gave a hard time to full self-driving for doing the same thing, but
11:22it's also something that humans struggle with too.
11:25As you probably have noticed, I'm also fast forwarding quite a bit more than I typically
11:30would for this style of video.
11:33Usually I like to get pretty in depth, but I ended up driving for over two hours with
11:38this initial drive.
11:39So there's a lot to see, so strap in.
11:42Another example of smoothness here, you can see how it kind of just brushes up against
11:47these lane lines.
11:48It doesn't try too hard to be exactly centered in the lane lines and just hugs the inside
11:54of these corners and stuff.
11:55It just feels so natural around these corners.
11:58It is awesome.
12:00Now here we have a freeway on-ramp and I'm really hoping to see a big burst of acceleration
12:06to get onto the freeway at freeway speeds.
12:10And unfortunately, it seems to just take its time getting up to speed.
12:15Even though it knows the speed limit is 65, our max speed is 78, it ends up merging onto
12:20this freeway at a little below 60 miles an hour, which in my opinion is just too slow.
12:27I think it should be at at least the speed limit when traffic is flowing at the speed
12:32limit.
12:33It does end up going a little bit faster as soon as it kind of pulls in with traffic and
12:37starts matching their speed a little bit, but it doesn't get all the way to our set
12:42speed of 78 miles an hour this time.
12:44It seems pretty happy just chilling around the low 70s, even when other people are passing
12:50it.
12:51I'm not really sure what the cause is of all the speed issues that we've been experiencing
12:56since version 12 when the neural nets took over.
12:59You'd kind of think that following a speed limit or something would be one of the more
13:04easy aspects of this, but it's obviously not.
13:07There's a lot of areas around me where I feel like it drives too quickly and a lot of other
13:12areas where it drives much too slowly, like right here, for example, we're taking off
13:17from this stop sign.
13:18The speed limit's 55.
13:19It still has a 78 mile an hour max speed, and yet it does not get anywhere near the
13:26speed limit.
13:27And this is a bright sunny day with clear visibility.
13:31If there was traffic behind me right now, I'd start feeling extremely uncomfortable.
13:36Luckily, there was none, but this is just way too slow on this road.
13:42And although I have been complaining a bit about speed control, credit for where it's
13:46due because this has been a disengagement and intervention free drive so far.
13:52I'll take the speed control issues all day compared to some of the other issues that
13:57we were experiencing not that long ago.
13:59There's a person who's about to pull out in between the stopped cars to our left, and
14:03you can see full self driving has really good reaction times and really thinks about
14:08slamming on the brakes if they were going to go for it.
14:11Really nice defensive driving there.
14:14You might have also seen that other car kind of fly by us who's really speeding on this
14:18road and we end up right next to him at a stoplight.
14:21And the reason I say this is because once the light turns green, we have to get into
14:24the left hand lane to make a left hand turn ahead and it starts to move over, but they
14:29start accelerating behind us.
14:31So you can see the car is a little bit nervous getting all the way into that left hand lane
14:36before they finally back off and pass us to the right so that we can make our left hand
14:41turn up here.
14:42I wish I had the 360 camera on for moments like these, so sorry that I don't.
14:47Honestly, the car probably should have been trying to get into this left hand lane a little
14:52bit earlier than it did to avoid that situation completely, but we'll look at a better example
14:57of that in a little bit.
14:59There are some rather large speed bumps in the road and you can see it does slow down
15:04a little, but not enough to be comfortable.
15:08In a Model Y, this is probably fine and you can see it does slow down a little bit more
15:13for this second one, but if I was in like a Model S or a Performance Model 3, that would
15:19have definitely been too fast.
15:22There doesn't seem to be much of a rhyme or reason to detect which speed bumps it's actually
15:27slowing for versus the ones it thinks it can go a little faster through.
15:31It's really kind of hard to figure out sometimes because sometimes it does it perfectly and
15:35other times it's pretty rough.
15:37As we make this left hand turn onto this street, there are a few dips on the road and there
15:43is signage warning people of these dips saying to go 15 miles an hour over them and although
15:50older versions of Full Self Driving were actually really good with dips like these, this version
15:55doesn't seem to slow down much at all.
15:57That was way too fast to be comfortable and I did hit the snapshot button there to send
16:03that data back to Tesla so that hopefully they can use it and another even larger dip
16:08in the road ahead of us and this one I did decide to go ahead and disengage for.
16:14I do consider this one a critical disengagement because like I mentioned, the Model Y, the
16:21car that I'm driving here, does have quite a bit of ground clearance and that would have
16:24probably been fine but if you were in a performance Model 3, that might have done some damage
16:30to your car.
16:31We did reach the end of our navigation route and put a new one in which has the car making
16:36a U-turn at the end of this court here which unfortunately it doesn't turn quite enough
16:42to make that happen and you can see it wants to shift into reverse so badly.
16:48The path planner is showing a reverse path but the car is not allowed to shift out of
16:53drive yet.
16:55This does cause the second disengagement of the drive, this one obviously non-critical.
17:01It feels like we are getting closer than ever to Full Self Driving actually being able to
17:06shift into reverse by itself and I cannot wait.
17:09I'm really hoping that version 13 which is supposedly coming by the end of the month
17:14is the one that makes that happen.
17:17Seeing the path planner in a reverse direction just gets me excited every time because there
17:22are so many scenarios that I have to consider disengagements like that one that are going
17:26to be completely solved.
17:27A little bit of lane trouble up here, we're supposed to be going straight which is kind
17:32of like a sweeping right turn and even though there's left hand turn markings on the ground
17:36and it's displaying those left hand turn markings, it decides to stop here and then just continue
17:42straight through this intersection which is obviously not what you're supposed to do.
17:46So I do go ahead and submit another snapshot for that one.
17:50Scenarios like that where the car gets into the completely wrong lane are getting pretty
17:54rare now but obviously still not completely fixed.
17:58I wanted to show you some really good anticipation of a gap in traffic.
18:03So watch how early it starts creeping forward when it sees a gap and how early it starts
18:09proceeding even when the other traffic hadn't completely passed yet.
18:14Scenarios like that really do make it feel a lot more like a human driver compared to
18:19a robot and I think that's one big advantage of the end-to-end system is that it doesn't
18:24raise that little red flag.
18:26It really makes you feel like the car understands what it's doing.
18:30There's a lot of situations like right here, this SUV to our right is kind of coming into
18:35our lane a little bit because it doesn't want to drive too close to the curb and rather
18:38than freaking out, the car just kind of hugs the left side of the road and just drives
18:42so naturally.
18:44Same thing with the car sticking out a little bit far, not all the way into the turn lane.
18:48Just goes right around no problem.
18:50One area where it doesn't feel quite as good is its lane decisions for upcoming turns.
18:56So we've been on this road for quite a while and you can see we're staying in the left
18:59lane the entire time until a few hundred feet before we have to merge back onto the freeway
19:05and now is when it decides to start trying to move over at the last possible second.
19:11This is another scenario where it's hard to see but the driver behind us actually starts
19:15accelerating to not let us in and it actually just kind of forces its way in here which
19:21on one hand I guess is pretty impressive but again it shouldn't have happened at all.
19:26We should have been in that right lane way sooner.
19:29Here is another instance where we're merging onto the freeway and the car should be accelerating
19:34here but obviously we have a slow Prius in front of us who's merging onto the freeway
19:39at 40 miles an hour and we are too.
19:43Pretty unbelievable.
19:45This is an area I really hope to see some major improvements on.
19:49It is a major pet peeve of mine when people merge onto the freeway going like 20 below
19:55the speed limit or hit their brakes or do stuff like that.
19:58It drives me crazy.
20:00Up here we're supposed to be going straight through this stoplight and then making another
20:05left hand turn after that to get into the parking lot where I have the destination but
20:09interestingly it decides to make a left turn here instead.
20:14It also does complete the left turn which makes it find a new way to the destination
20:19and the most likely scenario here honestly is that it probably just got into the wrong
20:23lane but I want to mention I have seen more and more instances of the car completely ignoring
20:30the navigation route and going its own way.
20:33Sometimes it finds a better path and other times it just seems random.
20:37This time it actually seemed to find a better way into the parking lot.
20:41The other route was going to take us all the way from the opposite side driving all the
20:45way through the parking lot to get to this area but in this way we just pulled right
20:49into where that destination pin is.
20:52Our destination pin is right off to our right right now and you can see it's going to try
20:57to get as close to it as it possibly can.
20:59These curbs are also pretty chewed up I don't know if you can tell from people hitting them
21:03because they stick so far out but the car does a really good job of keeping a good clearance
21:08from them and it also goes and attempts to park on its own.
21:13I mean it did a terrible job but hey there was an attempt.
21:17And obviously because the car is not allowed to shift itself into reverse yet I have to
21:22do that part for it.
21:23The last time I called this an intervention many of you were upset so I'm not going to
21:29include this as an intervention for the drive.
21:32I'm always unsure of what to classify as an intervention versus not but as the system
21:38becomes better and better I find myself becoming more and more strict.
21:43You can see it again having to navigate through these fairly tight areas with these curbs
21:48sticking out a lot.
21:49I know this is a complete joke for a lot of you in like Europe and stuff but you can
21:55just see how torn up all these curbs are.
21:57That's how many people hit them pretty consistently.
22:01And happy to say that the car never made me nervous once that it was getting too close
22:06to a curb.
22:07Maybe if you were in a Model S or X which is much wider that would be different but
22:12in this case I felt like it did a really good job.
22:14Our last destination is a supercharger that is fairly far away to give us a lot of time
22:21on the highway and also use this version at a time where traffic is pretty dense because
22:27I wanted to see how it works in stop and go traffic.
22:30But first after we merge onto this freeway you can see it's seeming like it's doing a
22:35fairly good job at keeping up with the flow of traffic and stuff but then it seemed pretty
22:40stuck at 42 miles an hour and it took me a while to notice this but you can see even
22:45though our profile is still set in a hurry and it detects the speed limit at 65 the max
22:51speed is still 42 miles an hour.
22:54So I do go ahead and submit another snapshot there and then manually intervene to increase
23:01the max speed which fortunately you can still do in this version.
23:06So that was another instance where it seemed to have a little bit of a mind of it's own
23:11regarding the max set speed.
23:13I figured it would probably just go 20% above whatever it detected the speed limit was but
23:20it doesn't seem to do that.
23:22It kind of almost seems to change randomly so not really sure what's going on there.
23:28But with all of that said I think the Autopilot team has done an excellent job with the end
23:33to end version of highway.
23:36Whenever there's these major changes I always get a little bit nervous that things are going
23:39to break but besides the speed control stuff everything else feels way way better.
23:46And I'm talking in basically all aspects of highway driving.
23:51The way it kind of hugs the inside of the corner around long sweeping turns and the
23:56way it accelerates and brakes and traffic and kind of keeps close to cars in front of
24:01it when there's dense traffic like this.
24:04It all feels really really good.
24:07It's also not overreacting when somebody kind of cuts in front of it.
24:11It feels a lot like version 12.5.
24:14I mean I guess that's pretty much what it is.
24:17But there are still several question marks I feel like I have.
24:21Like if this is all one unified model why is there a difference between driver profiles
24:27on highway and off highway.
24:29Does that mean that this is a completely different end to end network that specifically
24:33runs on the highway and they have a different one for city streets.
24:37Honestly I'm not really sure.
24:39I also have to kind of readjust the way I think about highway driving.
24:43Like you can see it turned on the left hand turn signal to try to get over into the left
24:49most HOV lane.
24:51And usually when the turn signal comes on the old highway Autopilot it would only turn
24:56on the turn signal when it found a gap that it wanted to fit into.
24:59But the end to end version as you can see here is perfectly comfortable just keeping
25:04the turn signal on the entire time and keeping up with the flow of traffic until it finds
25:09a gap to fit into.
25:11I also know that it does appear that the right lanes are going to be flowing a little bit
25:16faster than the target lane that we're trying to get into.
25:19But what you have to realize is all these right hand lanes merge into one.
25:23So the smart decision here is to get all the way into the left HOV lane.
25:27You can see it start moving over to the left hand side of the lane here when it finds a
25:31gap that it wants to fit into.
25:33And you might also notice that the lane changes themselves I think are significantly better
25:38with this new end to end system.
25:41So far all the lane changes that it's been doing have made sense.
25:45Which I can't say about the old highway stack.
25:48And the way that it's kind of anticipating traffic here is really amazing.
25:53You can see this final lane change here if you look in the mirror there's a car approaching
25:56fairly quick and it uses its acceleration to fit really nicely into the gap.
26:02Very nicely done.
26:04I'm going to be honest I'm getting pretty tired and need to go to bed soon so that I
26:09can wake up in the middle of the night and go drive to the robo taxi unveiling.
26:13So I'm going to fast forward until the end and use this time to try to give you a summary.
26:19The first thing I'll tell you is that when you use it it is really obvious that it is
26:24far smoother and more human like in pretty much all aspects.
26:29But I also think that I need a bit more time on highways using this new system to form
26:34a real opinion.
26:36I can tell you for sure that it's smoother and that they definitely fixed a few mapping
26:41problems that I have or maybe just the end to end approach fixed those and they're not
26:45even actually fixed.
26:47But it takes me time to figure out the quirks of this system.
26:51But I figured it's probably better to release this video giving some initial impressions
26:55rather than waiting to form a real opinion because honestly at the rate the Autopilot
26:59team has been pushing out these software releases by the time I form that real opinion it probably
27:04would be outdated anyways.
27:06Which isn't a bad thing by any means it's just kind of crazy how fast these releases
27:11seem to be coming out.
27:13Highways in total for this drive we had one what I would consider critical disengagement
27:19when the car wasn't slowing for a dip in the road, a non-critical disengagement when the
27:24car got stuck and needed some assistance backing up, and one intervention when it didn't automatically
27:31adjust the max speed correctly and kind of sat at 42 miles an hour on a highway which
27:36is definitely not ideal.
27:39All in all though I think we're seeing some really solid improvements in this release
27:44especially.
27:45For a long time the highway stack was the best and most relaxing part of using Autopilot
27:51and then all of a sudden version 12 came out aka the end to end version and suddenly the
27:56highway stack was probably the worst part of using Autopilot.
28:01In a lot of ways this feels almost like the last piece of the puzzle.
28:06We had version 12 which had end to end on city streets which felt so good.
28:12We have actually Smart Summon which uses some kind of end to end network for parking lots
28:18which we've seen has pretty much gotten universal praise and this really is it.
28:23Now end to end is also on highway.
28:27The AI has slowly eaten through all of the manually written code and heuristics and I
28:35gotta say I really like the direction it's going.
28:39A lot of people disagree when they see it doing things like hugging lane lines or doing
28:44you know slightly illegal things like not following the proper path and stuff but I've
28:49always been pretty adamant that the best way to get along with humans on the road is to
28:54drive like a human.
28:56And you know even if Tesla announces tomorrow that they have completely solved self driving
29:02and they're putting it out on the streets, for many years to come this car is going to
29:07be required to share the roads with humans.
29:09And I think the end to end system is the right approach and yeah I mean compared to everything
29:15else it just seems like it makes the most sense.
29:17I cannot wait to see what they unveil at the event tomorrow or today I guess depending
29:23on when you're watching this and when I get it uploaded.
29:26I'll be sure to record as much as I possibly can and if you're coming to the event yourself
29:31please do come and say hello.
29:33I know that this video's editing and stuff wasn't exactly up to par like the other ones
29:38but I hope you enjoyed my first impressions of this pretty incredible version.
29:43Thank you so much for watching everybody and until next time.