is HW3 really better than HW2 for FSD?! | Tesla Model 3 UK Autopilot Test

I'm

really

excited to see what the difference is. I expect there to be an obvious difference now that it runs the same software as the two and 2.5 hardware like my old

model

It's called hardware 3, so if you see hardware 3 everywhere or a p3 or FSD, it all means the same thing, it means you have that new computer under here that has something ridiculous like 10 times the power of the old one or even more. I'm not sure it's going to be tremendously powerful and basically what we're going to try to do is look at the difference and see if the hardware right now can make a difference between the software you're running and if this new hardware can potentially react faster and it can obviously score many more points along the way, whether it

really

is still

better

or whether those improvements are yet to come.

This is the only thing I'm not sure about, obviously because the old computer has been around since I think 2016 and now they're just upgrading the cards to this new computer with full self-contained drive, so the old stuff is still really good and they are as good as this in the current era, but this should now start moving forward and you should I see the difference between having the 22.5 hardware and the 3.0 hardware now, obviously, so far this has been pretty good and we are doing this for a path I have done many times before also the hard way, so I know exactly where it fails. this road and where it succeeds and I'm intrigued to know the difference and see what it's like one thing I will know is that the

model

3 is a little slower to react in the corners so far damn dude I thought you were coming straight through The path is then a little slower.

I found it where I have widened myself like here, for example. I'm a little too left for my taste. I would prefer it to be more central as it is now and also with This part coming in here we will see how quickly it now changes the speed limits and if it can recognize the speed limits from a distance, so we can see that it still thinks it is a 50 , should change to a 40 now, which it has done, but still. If we were over 40, I don't think it would have slowed us down, but we'll see that might change later down the road.

Now it doesn't fail here, but it can sometimes get a little strange in this area. just because it's a bit downhill and there's no left line, but it works pretty well and I expect it to work for most of this trip. You can see that the saying applies to a slight turn of the steering wheel. My hands are clearly on the steering wheel, but it's still not sensitive enough, so you just need to move them very, very slightly. We are also behind this Peugeot which is good, it is regulating speed well for us and I am currently set up with three cars behind so you can change the settings using this. toggle and then you can speed up and down like that too, so it's cool how it all works now.

I expect a bit of a troublesome moment here, we're probably going to have an abortion in the car, let's see, always It sounds weird saying that, but sometimes it's boring here, but let's see how it works. No, he did very well again. I think it's because we're going slower because of the car in front, but that's not really a problem and that actually tipped that. much

better

than my Model Aborts completely, look, going 40 to 45 is slowing us down, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the car in front. I really hope he stops us before the corners in this car.

Well, I'll have to take control here if I don't have to. take control here this is a huge improvement this is a very very tight right turn it's going to do it because we're going at a slower speed yes it did Wow look it slowed us down to 30 we got a warning oh it broke really hard there I think because the bus and again you will be able to make this bend this is a difficult bend to make with the central reservation it broke again quite hard but here we go continue now comes the Real

test

now, I chose this part of the road because there is no line on this road and this is new, it's had lines before and I'm really intrigued to see how the hardware three handles when there are no lines. and look at this, he's doing tremendously.

This is really impressive. I'm even going to increase it to the 50 speed limit now. This is due to the car in front. I'm not 100% sure, but you can see it's holding up. the left doesn't come close to the center reservation and I'm actually focusing on this line here because you can see it wobbles a little bit, but it's never gone super wide and crazy like the Model X sometimes does. Wow, I'm really impressed. this has kept us on the left side again with no lines. I wonder if the

autopilot

would have engaged on that road with no lines, guys, that's phenomenal, it's very, very good and again we're down to 30, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the car in front, but that's exactly it. the speed the car needs to get to a place like this.

Well, we have some other pretty interesting

test

s on this stretch of road, including a very wide stretch here that sometimes confuse confuse my Model if I was dodging a pothole there, but I think it was just a coincidence, it's a bit stiff there yet I don't know why the satnavs aren't following us and we're coming to a roundabout and someone has just made an illegal U-turn on a roundabout, so I'm pretty and I don't think you can do that. on a roundabout on a small roundabout without central reservations, let me know. Can you do a complete 180 on a mini roundabout?

I always thought you could have done it, but it worked well there and actually made it back to the roundabout. There are no lines. Really here it is. and the cars follow this Persia in front very well, okay, we are braking. I'm not sure why we're stopping there. I think sometimes it's noticing trucks and buses on the other side of the road because we're slowing down. a little bit of regenerative braking when there's a truck on the other side of the road, which is a little strange, but following this well it's very strange to have

autopilot

down here.

Oh, what's going to do is they're going to follow the right lane, no, it's not? I had a little warning although it's weird having autopilot here because I'm used to obviously seeing everything right in front of me which is easier to see but it looks good there, there's sure to be a pretty tight bend here, how is it going to be handled? this and now we are approaching a roundabout so I will also have to take control and go around the roundabout myself and then go back on autopilot, it falls straight and then I kept turning when I turned everything to pile up.

It's on, it's okay, apply light force, yes, my hand, my hands are always on the steering wheel. I hope you can see that my hand is always on the wheel here while it's turning, but this has definitely been the most successful autopilot ride I've ever taken. done by this route so far let's hope it continues like this okay we can increase it to 40 so you should use this so if you like to move fast it will do it at 5 miles per hour if you just move it or move from one in one. time will do 1 mile per hour with each type of click but I have it set at all and I wish it would go up to the speed limit every time you have it set to the speed limit now I hope it does go to 60 here when we go into 60 , let's take a look and see if it actually does that.

No, you can see it's got the speed limit at 60, but it's keeping us at 40, so I'm just going to turn it up. To be honest, we probably won't get to 60. I'll just keep it at 50. You can see this works really well here on these roads and as we get to Swindon we'll try to cruise around a bit. Autopilot around Swindon and then we'll go through the city center because I've always wanted to visit Swindon on my city tours but as it's not a city I can't do that, whereas this is a perfect demonstration. Since I know the area well I can show you all the paths and I hope this half hour is enough to show you the difference between hardware two and hardware three, even running the same software it's almost like we're running the same game but this it's on the maximum setting and my 10th, my other Tesla is in the middle or something like that is how I would differentiate between the two, but when there are nice viable lines like this, it's obviously very easy to follow, there's an area down here where, like Now, I want it to stay more to the right but I think it will go closer to the left or at least that's what my Model I don't really do that, although the car has bothered me a couple of times to put my hand on the steering wheel, although my hand is on the steering wheel, I found that this steering wheel is much more sensitive, which is really good because I can rest my hand.

It's so much easier, literally, you just need to touch it and pull down very, very lightly or have your hand resting on the bottom and that allows it. You see, I've let it go for a moment and then if I put it in there, Wow, it's like a little bit and it will eliminate the warning, whereas on the next model I almost have to physically turn the steering wheel a little bit for it to register, so I guess something inside the wheels is much more sensitive now that someone told me. the model 3 that if you don't touch the steering wheel, I have my hand on the steering wheel right here and instead you touch the bumps, that will cancel the warning, so let's see very quickly if that's the case, there's the warning, so I'm going to just touch the bump, no, nothing, and I'm going to turn up the volume, no, nothing, it's definitely the steering wheel.

I'm surprised you're not using the camera here to make sure your eyes are looking forward, so this is the bump. area oh yeah, yeah, I guess my GoPros stabilize it just fine, but we've gotten over every single bump, yeah, every bump, so you just need to edge slightly to the right here. In the future I will also do it full side. Side-by-side comparisons where I'm driving on the same road or I think it started following the right line there instead of this line. I'll be doing a full side-by-side comparison with my Model I think it was actually my mother in that Renault Captur.

Okay, it's breaking down really well, it's actually breaking down a lot better than my Model from breaking, while there it slowed down from a distance and is leaving a pretty good space here between us and the perch. Oh, up front, this bridge in front of us here is actually a pain in the butt because it merges into one. There's no traffic but two cars can fit, but if there's a bus or a truck you're screwed, you can see it's actually tried to stop us in the middle of the road which I obviously don't want to happen because I probably would have hit that car, Not sure why they didn't change that bridge and make it wider but that's the advice anyway, this is now going to a Royal Wootton Bassett which will be a real test for it, especially down.

The set is in the center of the city, so let's see how it works. I don't think it will work too much here just because of the parking. The way parking is in this city is an absolute nightmare. The lines are also quite weak, but. seems to be working fine, they're slowing down quite a bit there too and I'm going to stop here and keep the place clear and let this lady go once she figures that out, not even a thank you, great, anyway, go ahead, like this what .. here. Again I will have to get out, obviously, because the cars are parked on the left, but there are no queues either and there is a huge truck at the top still waiting and it doesn't even look like it's going to stop to get off.

That's not so bad, here we go. Oh interesting. Wow, okay, I don't know why he was showing us a red there for the car in front when he was in control, but for some reason he decided to do that. Actually, I'm going to close. the gap a little bit and I'm going to set this to a distance because I think three in a city leaves too much room for cars to cut in front of you, so this thing I'm talking about there are no lines here in the parking lot. It's just crazy and there are car rear ends everywhere, which is really weird, but yeah, but let this guy come across.

I hope I can turn auto fire back on, yeah, there we go, okay, so this is where it's going to happen. get really angry so this is a rotten bastard on the main street and you see there are no lines except some switchbacks and some people probably try to back up ok I didn't like that how will you do here? I hope with the The cars ahead will literally follow this Fiesta oh there's a car reversing oh my god isn't it going to stop? Well, I'm not sure what it is, it's working fine, actually I think it is.I want to buy something to extend the GoPro so it can be a little lower because I think the lower downward angle looked better on the model 3 and I need to go buy a slightly longer arm so the GoPro can take that shot downhill so here we are reaching the green bridge in the cobbler area so again they have just redid this roundabout in Swindon and it is so horrible and confusing most people just cut across like this I don't think any car could do this like this place soon because it's really very confusing ok so let's find a place and try to park in said place do we need a place with two cars on both sides are the lowest here but some people were saying it was being a bit too much tough on the auto park feature, but to be honest, I've never used it in a normal situation and I'll show you why because if you use it in a normal situation it's like: it's too slow, especially if people pass by you, It says we can park back there, but I'm pretty sure that's where a person was, so I'm not going to park there. spot I see if you pick up any spots here we go well we have one on the right so I'm going to take that spot here we go Auto Park in progress no cars around us which is good I really hope so No one gets off here but You can see by how fast the Peugeot parked in front of us is and you'll probably have already been to the shops and got what you needed in time.

The lady in the car behind, I think she just got out. we go slowly, there's the lady over there and back, this part needs to be faster, like it's like ah come on, go back, you can see there's a hedge, just go back to the hedge and we're almost parked, yeah, good job. I mean she does it perfectly. I'm not going to lie, it was a perfect parking lot. The car on the left just looked at us and I bet he said that was the slowest parking anyone has ever done, but he did it right, so let me know what you want.

Think again about hardware 3 and hardware 2, which one is better and if there is any difference, yes, or do you think the next software updates are where we will see the real improvement.