Navigate on Autopilot | Whats the difference from Autopilot & How does it perform? | 2021.4.18

Hello, YouTube will be back from All Electric again with another video and today we will discuss

autopilot

navigation. In this video, I'll tell you the good and the bad of the current system running the most recent version that Tesla has released. For the audience now, before we get into the details of

autopilot

navigation, I first want to talk about the

difference

between autopilot and autopilot navigation, as you can see here. I have two blue lines on the side of my screen, which is the easiest way to see if you're a navigator on autopilot versus normal autopilot, so in this video clip that you're watching here, this is just normal autopilot and it's designed to any road.

You can also do this on the highway. Now the autopilot won't do anything. turn, it will simply follow this path. You, as the driver, will have to take control and make whatever type of turn you want to make now again. This is just a normal autopilot. It comes with all Teslas now so this is a standard feature just normal autopilot now navigating on autopilot is something you have to pay extra for and that is part of the fsd package so currently as of this recording, navigating on autopilot is only available on major roads without traffic lights, so on this road you can Look, I'm navigating on autopilot because I have that single blue line coming out of the center of the car and I also have that blue box where it says

navigate

on autopilot which is lit now, if I touch that blue box then remove the single blue line and it would go back to normal autopilot.

Now the

difference

between the two navigating on autopilot will do automatic lane changes on a freeway and also taking ramps and exit ramps on the freeway navigating on autopilot definitely allows you to have more customization than just normal autopilot so I'll open the menu here so you can see you can start it every time you start a trip, there are also lane changes based on speed, so if there is slow traffic ahead you can take it all the way to Mad Max mode where it will really be quite aggressive and fast in terms of getting around other people, but definitely, if you're sailing on autopilot, those are my settings, so I showed them to you.

So you have a baseline of where all this stuff is coming from, so navigating on autopilot

does

a pretty good job, but I don't use it that often because it usually

does

n't make the best lane changes, so here you can see a picture slower. car in the left lane to move into the right lane, which is exactly what I would have done as a regular driver, although I would have done it much sooner. He followed this car for at least about a mile before it arrived. I decided to move into the right lane and ended up passing that car.

I had the speed set at 79 miles per hour, which will come in handy here shortly when I get to this truck. Now see the truck. I can see the. truck as the driver and before starting to slow down, you will initiate a lane change. Now, this is rare, this doesn't normally happen. I have another example where the car will get very close to the truck, slow down below my set speed, and then change lanes, so I never slowed down. You can see I kept my set speed there at 79 miles per hour and I was able to transition from the right lane to the left lane to get around this big truck and now that I'm in the left lane, I don't have traffic, the car should come back.

This is where autopilot navigation wouldn't work the same as a normal human driver, so I'm coming to a bridge that has an on-ramp. And so what you'll see here in the next few seconds is a truck pulling onto that entrance ramp, so I'm going to zoom in. Here you can see the truck entering the entrance ramp as immediately as a human driver. It would automatically pass and that's something I want autopilot navigation to do by just giving that extra space for oncoming vehicles. The left lane was clear, so I could have easily passed it in that case, but instead I decided to stay straight. and now you're making that lane change because you see traffic up ahead that wants to pass in that left lane that's open now that you've transitioned into that left lane, I'm going to speed up The video clip here is just a little , so I maintain that set speed of 79 miles per hour passing two vehicles.

Now there's a third truck heading that way and you can see that the autopilot here, the navigator on autopilot, does a great job. in that left lane and then passing this last vehicle now both lanes are completely open. I'm going to slow down the footage and you can see it starts to turn into that right lane. Now this is perfect. This is exactly what I would do. a normal human driver is just doing a great job of changing from lane to lane and moving exactly when I would move too, so there is no traffic around me, so he will maintain that position in the right lane.

I have a car to my right hanging out of my blind spot going forward and then backing up, so just speeding up the footage here there is no lane change until we get to this other entrance ramp. You can see the dashed lines on the far right side and then the car will swerve. to the right trying to focus on that lane, so this is definitely something Tesla needs to work on, so instead of using both lane lines in that situation, I would have liked to see it just use the dashes in the middle and then keep that.

Go straight instead of veering to the right, so now you can see a huge truck. I'm getting close and the left lane is open here, but it still won't pass, so now I'm slowing down to the end. 72 71 70 miles per hour before you change lanes. That's a case where I would like to see the autopilot navigation act more humanely, where we would have seen the truck well in advance, which I did and would have done. that lane change long before autopilot, but here's a great example of driving like I would, at 16 miles an hour, walking at the pace of that car and sitting in the left lane, which you shouldn't be, so the autopilot made a lane change to the right lane now it's passing that vehicle there's a truck up ahead but it looks like there's going to be enough room there so we're going to pass the car that's stopped in the left lane and then we turn a little A shake of the steering wheel confirms the lane change and it will go around that truck, so it is a fairly complex movement and operated very well by the autopilot or the navigation on autopilot that now leaves the passing lane and returns to the lane Right, so this is a case where you know you can see a white box truck on the horizon, so it may not necessarily have made that lane change to the right lane, but it's okay that the vehicle did. done now.

It's going back into the left lane because we have a slower vehicle in the right lane, so I didn't slow down like we did last time. I maintain that set speed of 79 miles per hour and you can see this big truck going. now into the left lane and the navigation autopilot sees that and actually goes over to the right lane, which I think that big truck saw some things that we couldn't have seen, like that car on the side of the road and that I I don't think the autopilot navigation is necessarily paying attention, so this truck probably learned that there was work going on on this right side or saw it, so we have some arrows here indicating that there is some work going on on the right side. road.

Back there, but we were able to get past it with no problems, so let's keep the video pretty fast, so now we have a transition here where the car wants to go into the left lane. I get a little shake in the steering wheel to let you know. I'm still paying attention, it passes that truck we just passed and then it's able to make a smooth transition and I want to reiterate how smooth the lane changes are. The lane changes in this car are fantastic and it's really my personal preference. The reason I don't necessarily use autopilot navigation as much is because I like to pick my lanes.

I feel like lane changing is more important than navigating on autopilot, just being able to be on autopilot and changing lanes. The stock you know, changing lanes to the right or left is more important to me than having the car do it by itself, so I usually stay on normal autopilot and then just control the car with the stock shift, which requires the fsd package, which some people I know have wanted to part with, but I don't see that happening in the future. I think they'll keep it as a single package, so here comes another good example of why I don't use autopilot navigation.

So much so that it's hard to see in this video, but up ahead, in the right lane, there is a truck carrying a couple of cars, so we're going to follow what the navigator's autopilot wants to do, but you can see the truck which carries a couple of cars, so there's no way that if you were driving you could move into the right lane, so it's definitely a limitation in the system. I don't know if the cameras aren't picking that up or they're just not reading it. away, but then you can see that we left the right lane and now we are back in the left lane almost immediately and that is something that is a little annoying when the driver of the car bounces back and forth and again you saw the navigation . in the autopilot setting that I'm using here in this video, so now my exit is approaching and the car wants to pass again, we've passed that car, there's plenty of room, it's very safe in terms of lane changes and everything that.

It's phenomenal and I've never had a problem with any of the lane changes. For me, it's the only lane option he takes and sometimes he passes too soon, so here's our exit. It does a pretty choppy job of passing and then slowing down. significantly once you're in that exit lane, but then you can see here three two one and we can no longer

navigate

on autopilot back to normal autopilot, you can see it by those two blue lines, so I really hope that this video has been helpful to you by not only showing the difference between navigating on autopilot and normal autopilot, but also the limitations that system has in terms of choosing the correct lane that a normal human driver would choose.

I think there's definitely room to grow. I hope you like this video. Please like it. Thank you very much for watching. Make sure to share this video with a friend and don't forget to hit the subscribe button as always. I'll see you in the next one.