Has the self driving been pretty reliable?

I use it daily(FSD), it's very impressive. (Autopilot is old code, i wouldn't use it).

Yes

HW3, use it literally everyday. I wish they had stats for HW3 within the Tesla UI

HW3 here, I use it every time I drive. FSD is fantastically reliable.

I use my HW4 Model 3 FSD every day. It does a great job. Not perfect, but takes out 99% of the driving.

Yes. I use it for like 99% of my driving. I can't wait to get 14.2 to see what my actual use is. It's a shame its not retroactive.

FSD works pretty well. It’s not perfect and it’s not free.  The free “autopilot” is just lane keeping.

With V14, I've pretty much stopped driving manually. That's both in town and long trips.

I used my free trial on a road with no lane markings and it immediately tried to drive into a ditch. Never tried it again. I bought the performance model because driving it myself is fun.

Yes, it’s incredible, and I’m only on hw3

Gotta qualify myself first - our first Tesla was a 2019 - bought in October with "full self driving on city streets by the end of the year" - the invoice literally says that. It didn't do that - not even close. It made all sorts of terrible mistakes that were dangerous to me or the car and annoying to other drivers - or annoying to me when it would pause far longer than necessary or settle in and follow a slow moving car on the freeway. It sucked, I ranted about it constantly. Today, I pretty much use it 100% of the time. For routes that I drive every day, I know which ones it can do with no intervention and which ones I have to be ready to take over in that one trouble spot. I'm convinced that it's safer than me driving and it's just way less stressful than me driving (totally was not like that a year ago). Going someplace that I don't often go - it's awesome because it never gets lost or misses a turn - I have to supervise the heck out of it, but that's still far easier than driving unfamiliar streets. Some of this is the car getting better and some of it is me drifting. I wanted it to drive like me. My friends don't drive exactly like me but I ride in their cars and can't make an argument that their driving would somehow be better if it was more like mine. So, I'm drifting toward acceptance that owning a car that drives for me is good even if I might have done it slightly differently. It is annoying that each release brings major changes with minimal documentation, but the thing is almost monotonically improving. I have not yet found my way around the biggest difference between it and me. Anyplace where the speed limit is 35 or less, I'm pretty much a 'sloth mode' guy - 28 is fine in a 25 zone - do the math, getting to the corner store 8 seconds sooner won't matter and 40 (yes, I've seen my Tesla do this) in a 25 zone is, IMO, extremely irresponsible. But, put me on the freeway, supposedly safe from kids, dogs, bikes, old drivers, etc, and I'm pretty much a 'hurry mode' kind of guy. I think I'm being reasonable here, others may disagree. I'm still one revision back and can change the max speed with the scroll wheel - so I still have a little influence. I'm prepared to be unhappy with the release that, I've heard, takes that away.

Use my FSD all the time it spoils you a bit.

I have had my model 3 for a year and use the FSD 90% of the time. I love it.

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‘26 Juniper: absolutely love it

I never leave home without it, hw3 it does it all yeah it can't reverse no big deal

Yes. Pay attention though!!!!

2024 M3 with HW4, I barely drive manual anymore. Handles local and freeway conditions here in Seattle with no issues and is super smooth. The only place I drive manual anymore is usually shopping center parking lots and parking garages, as FSD sometimes hesitates and takes the longest least efficient exit. Other than that I’ve had zero issues and no complaints!

For me, it is as much work to watch it drive as it is for me to just drive. It might become useful when it goes unsupervised. For you there’s a fomo issue if you wait because it may cost a lot more when it goes unsupervised.

Hw4 M3 performance here. FSD is 98% of my driving, the other 2% is reserved for barreling through mountain roads and letting the performance motors sing.

I’ve tried it a few times and there’s a lot of merging lanes in my area. Issue is the car wants to stop at the merge. Anyone get past this yet?

I use it everyday even used it to go to Arizona from California. Extremely reliable and safe imo

I love it too. It is addictive. Of course one needs to remain vigilant.

Do you have 14.2 yet? Drove a cyber truck a couple days ago with 14.2, it was amazingly flawless. Got 14.2 on my 2025 M3 last night, did a 400 mile road trip today, it's sooooo much better than 14.1.4. not a single issue the whole drive. Did everything right. I'm impressed.

FSD 14.1.4 I’ve had it drive me 2 hours in the pouring rain and did not once feel the need for an intervention. Excited to see what 14.2 brings to the table.

Yes. 14.2 on both my CT and Highland.

I will wait for it to be safer than a human. I only trust it on highway after too many close calls.

Posted here yesterday with an example of my car veering into an overtaking car and having to grab the wheel to keep it in lane 🥺 (Autopilot with Autosteer)

Really hoping I get the notification for 14.2 update before I drive back to Florida from Virginia on Saturday. the jittery braking is getting old!

i did a service today for the OSC retrofit for warranty, and we test drove the brand-new MODEL Y with FSD. we used fsd for about 45 min in fort worth TX in the city, it didnt do a single mistake. pretty solid and very smooth

I’ve had some bad experiences with my 24 M3P recently, but I think it was due to needing the front windshield camera cleaned. With 14.1 I was getting a lot of phantom braking in bright conditions, and sometimes disengagements. With 14.2 (even just today), I noticed some times where the steering wheel would shake back and forth like it couldn’t figure out what to do. I just got the camera cleaned (which Tesla does for free now). I’ve only used FSD on the way back home and it was fine. Hoping it’s all good now.

21 model Y - use it daily, would never buy another brand with out something exactly like it or better

Yep, hw3 is fantastic. If hw3 is this good, I cant imagine how insanely good hw4 must be.

We tried to buy a non Elon related EV but couldn’t check off FSD at the end. I can write an essay about why. But, all I can say is even the ‘Enhanced Auto Pilot’ on our 2018 Model X is better than most available non-Tesla self driving systems of the current year. We have logged in around 235K of mostly ‘self driven’ miles in this car. We just bought a 2023 Model X and are pleasantly surprised to see that improvements and advances the FSD has made. We intend to keep driving these cars as long as possible, mostly in FSD. None of the reviewers or legacy car testers use FSD as a daily use case system. Hence I feel their reviews are unintentionally light on facts and actual observations. You will love FSD. And won’t be able to go back from the simplicity of it all. It’s like a cheat code. You won’t believe that you only paid what you paid everything you hear that chime. Go for it!

Has saved me from 3 accidents. Most remarkable I came to an abrupt stop on the interstate. I looked in the rear view and saw a car flying towards me with smoke pouring out the wheel wells, when suddenly my M3P lurched forward about 7 feet. About 18” from the car in front and the car behind stopped about 2 feet from my bumper. That was cool.

Driving myself has been pretty reliable. Thanks! 😜

I drove a brand new cyberbeast and the hw4 fsd cut out 6 times on a clear day and no traffic on a perfect road. then on the way back I tried it again and it worked flawlessly. its not reliable

I second these comments

If you don't expect to be able to sleep instead of paying attention, I think it's fantastic. I recently drove over 1,000 miles with 14.1.4. FSD was engaged the whole way with minimal interventions (a couple forced lane changes, switching profiles to adjust speed, briefly disengaging near a state trooper, stopping at a toll booth, etc). Would I feel comfortable texting or sleeping while it drives? Not quite yet. But it eliminates about half the fatigue of driving. Mine is subscription-based, which I only expected to keep for the first month because it was free. Well, I'm still paying $100 monthly for a reason.

I’d say 95% of time at best. 5% times that does matter, your in 2 tons of steel. Not good at avoiding trash cans on side view mirrors, or detecting 9” traffic islands on the ground, and get agitated on merging situation, love to drive over double white and yellow double lines in ‘Hurry’ mode. Would that ever put functions to recognize street signs?? Makes my life easier city night out.

99%

As a HW3 Intel owner, 12.6.4 has been remarkably reliable.

As a HW3 Intel owner, 12.6.4 has been remarkably reliable. I drive in and around Houston, which has some gnarly traffic issues but I drive my entire 110 mile round trip commute 100% on FSD.

And for the comments saying “stay vigilant” and “pay attention”; this doesn’t need to be said. The car painstakingly and even annoyingly reminds us to do these things.

FSD is currently way better than my driving skills and I’m letting it drive pretty much every time

I’m on the old hW3, and I’d say it’s 90% good.

How reliable is it on HW3? Most comments about FSD are people on HW4 so curious to hear your thoughts.

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Fantastically

95% self driving now. It’s just so much nicer and very very safe. A touch annoying sometimes when it doesn’t do what I would, but that’s about it

14 is 98% of the way there

It’s really good

The only issue i have sometimes is when i'm in an exit ramp and the car in front of me is going too slow, it will literally switch lanes to try and go around it. This happened to me 3 times, in the exit ramp lol. Always be paying attention

The news mentioned the doors when you lose power which before I drove one it was on my mind. After driving one and seeing how easy it was to pull up the manual lever to open the door, I no longer worry about that. That was my last question/concern so I guess I'm sold on getting a Tesla. Now have to decide on which color and exact model

It’s better. It’s not a whole other world of better but I haven’t tried 14.2. Seems to me like a lot of people over exaggerate the incremental improvements. I drive with 12.6.4 almost every day. It’s really good but far from flawless. Just last night in the rain left turn from a stop light in a kinda big intersection. It couldn’t see the lanes I guess and started to left turn into the opposing (empty) left turn lane. I took over sooner than later. It may have corrected eventually idk. The last couple times I drove with 14.1 I don’t think I had to take over but it was maybe 30 miles each time. On average I do about 250ish miles a week with 12.6.4 and while almost never safety critical I take over at least every 50 miles. I won’t be getting self driving again for a while on the hw4 car because it’s my wife’s car and she doesn’t use it enough to justify the $100/month. 12 miles round trip to work five days a week and she doesn’t like the way it changes lanes so much in those short trips so it wont get daily use. I do have this anecdote for people skeptical of it. My wife has never ever even used cruise control in the past. We never had a car with “smart” or traffic aware cruise control though. She has always said she “doesn’t feel like she is in control of the car”. However, she will use self driving in some situations. Talk about not being in control of the car. lol. It’s that smooth and confident even on hw3.

Inside it every day. I remain just as vigilant as if I was driving normally. It’s far from flawless but hw4 isn’t either. They both make mistakes and decisions that I never would. Hw4 currently exceeds the speed limit unreasonably but I haven’t tried 14.2. I can’t post images here but it was doing 15mpg over in a 45 while in the “chill” profile. There are a couple sections of road that people tend to speed in normally. Both of my cars hw3 and hw4 have figured this out somehow. The hw4 car speeds unreasonably in these sections. I rarely use anything above chill with hw4. Hw3 still have the max speed setting available. It will exceed the percentage limit that I’ve set in the autopilot settings if it wants to though. They both need constant supervision.

The new update is actually really good and I've been pretty vocal about how much FSD needs to be improved