What’s the deal with Tesla Map?

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lol I posted about this a few months ago. Tesla maps is terrible 😖

It was pretty good, but has degraded, especially under 14.x FSD.

It likes to take the scenic route so you can enjoy the road more

That's the Big Dipper route

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Holy shit😂 the exact same thing happened to my brother. Thanks for the rec

It has gotten much worse lately. And the windshield wipers are no better. Guys, I don't think we're going to have bipedal robots any time soon. Heh.

Is it aggressively avoiding left turns ? maybe it finds right turns easier to make on self driving

lol! Goes back awhile - on the really old FSD, they wanted to avoid what they called “uncontrolled left turns” - basically what everyone else calls “left turns”, so they made it do all kinds of nutty things. They’ve straightened a fair amount of it out, but it still does lots of bizarre things.

It sucks thats what

Yeah, the windshield wipers is going off randomly in different people’s YouTube videos cracks me up. I cannot believe that’s a problem. My Sonata has rain window wipers, and it literally never goes off unless it’s raining. I always hear about Tesla “superior technology”, but I noticed they are always very specific with their claim. They just claim it superior.

Just to clarify: This is happening without FSD ON.

When leaving the dead-end street I live in, it tells me to turn left, drive a minute down the road, then do a u turn, instead of just turning right 🤷‍♂️

Well it still takes me to the most inconvenient 4 lane high traffic left turns in LA

Ditto. (UK)

I love my Tesla but the maps and defrosters are TERRIBLE. Need to get somewhere? Ok here’s a route that makes a figure eight instead. Your windshield getting foggy? It will take approx 7-10 business days to clear. Almost forgot the ghost windshield wipers going off all the time when no rain

A few months ago I set the destination to a BART station (SF Bay Area trains). The station was along a freeway. The nav told me to stop and park on the freeway rather than taking the correct exit to get to the station's parking garage...

I think the nav system is fairly separate from the FSD code. Wish they would put it back the way it was - once upon a time it was basically Google Maps-like.

What seems to be the problem. Doesn’t yours fly off the ground and circle the streets?

thanks for the only comment here that actually tries to answer the question

This! Every time someone asks why I want Android auto when we have Tesla software. If you don't use Google maps in parallel you will never know.

Scenic route.. 😉

What’s interesting is that FSD uses its own route and will take the logical route, not the navigation system’s route. In 13.x FSD would go its own way and miss exits. That seems resolved.

Worst map ever created, it reminds me of Siri

Woman driver. Can; t drive backwards.

Particularly funny because U-turns are illegal in the UK (for some reason).

Back before they didn’t want to pay the Google API fees, it WAS Google Maps.

I don't know where you got this but they're not illegal.

Is Tesla Maps based on Google Maps?

To be fair, my Rivian has auto wipers based on the usual rain sensor, and it is almost as bad as my Tesla’s auto wiper feature. But thankfully both my vehicles have stalks, so they can still be controlled manually. Both will give a random swipe when dry 🤷‍♀️

If I could just get it to stop trying to take dirt roads, that would be great.

That’s so weird It’s like absolutely perfect on my Hyundai it even controls how fast it moves based on how much rain there is and like I’ve just I never have to go manual. It’s just like perfectly done. It’s a 2025 Sonata Limited

I got stopped by the police in 1999 for doing a U-turn at a traffic light in Edinburgh (no traffic). They told me it was illegal to U-turn anywhere. And all my friends and family assumed it was illegal too. But the internet says otherwise, so I guess I’m wrong 🤷‍♀️

Software is hard. And those manufacturers who rely most on software seem to have more than their fair share of bugs.

Super normal

I think the bigger difference is that Hyundai motor group has been making luxury vehicles with this feature for over two decades and they just are better at it specifically Just like Tesla’s full self driving is farther along I drove from Southern California to Northern California a couple of weeks ago right in the middle of that terrible rainstorm, which was obviously bad timing and I literally did not take the wipers off auto once for hundreds of miles And a lot of that drive wasn’t full rain it kept coming and going

Not like the police to make it up or not know what they're talking about.

Mine always wants to pass the main entrance to my work parking lot and go around to the back. It was actually fixed right before v14 and since v14 it routed it wrong again. On the plus side it means I always get to work a few minutes before the arrive time.

2010 VW Touareg wipers were perfection too. Left it on auto for 5 years and only adjusted it in the winter with iced up windshields.

This happened to me today… literally wanted to drive me around the block when my destination was right in front of me…

Hah! I was doing the same route but in the opposite direction in that same downpour - 12 hours of driving in the rain. I used manual wiper speeds throughout, because it’s usually less control input than Auto Wipers (Beta) ™.

Have any of you guys downloaded the new update? I know it has updates on the map features and a lot of stuff particularly around self driving. What’s it like? Any cool features? I should check out?

In this Trumpian era you say whatever you want with no consequences, it's clearly the way things are now.

There's a road like this in my neighborhood. What I found out when I started digging into it is that in Google and Open Street Maps it was marked as two courts instead of one continuous road. Google could gonkulate navigating through it but when I looked at it on Open Street Maps it looked like two seperate little streets that didn't touch. I zoomed in on the car and sure enough that's what it looked like. I edited both of them and in 14.2.1 update the road is now good and the car takes it just fine. Another quirk I have that I haven't figured out is why sometimes it will decide to U turn at the intersection by my house and most times it will take some long ass route to get around it. Or the hit or miss I get with my community gate now. At night, it's better about turning towards the gate to get out of the neighborhood, but at night it sees the gate there and just freaks out and draws a lap around the neighborhood and will just keep driving if I let it.

Google maps does the same for me

I’ve had that a few times not very often I don’t understand why it does that

Because teslas wipers arent made to go off just for rain. If the camera gets blocked, the wipers turn on to try and clear whatever is blocking it. Whether debree, dust, etc..

Then why does the freeway overpasses trigger them in people’s videos? There’s nothing blocking the camera

Just like glare triggers it too, sudden loss in visibility is enough to trigger it.