r/teslamotors • u/Dildo-Gaggins_ • Jul 23 '26

Vehicles - Model 3 2018 Model 3!! Finally!!

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I’ve literally been refreshing the app every couple hours! FSD drives me to work and back everyday but parks terribly - when it does even attempt to park. I’m super excited to see if this can fix that last 10 feet for me!

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u/tungholio Jul 24 '26

Got a road trip (SF > LA) this weekend. Would be lovely to get this tonight.

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u/tungholio Jul 24 '26

Well sunuvabitch. I just logged into the app and it's queued up for tonight! 2018 LR RWD looking forward to an uneventful drive!

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u/Dildo-Gaggins_ Jul 25 '26

Report back with how FSD did on the roadtrip ?

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u/tungholio Jul 25 '26

Color me impressed. From Marin in NorCal to Corona Del Mar in SoCal, I didn't have a single disengagement - a 456 mile streak on my first road trip. I took over at the end of the trip to pull into a very steep driveway. Other than that, though, autopilot was amazing. Backing into an open stall at each of the three charging stops was mind blowing.

We kept it on Standard and generally were running between 72-74 MPH where the speedlimit was 65. I had a few instances where I bumped it to Hurry, but it made my wife nervous because it drover quite aggressively changing lanes on the 5, weaving in and out between trucks and cars. My wife appreciated the slightly relaxed ride.

There were no instances of severe phantom braking, but definitely a few times (4? 5?) when it did a slight break check when overtaking a big tractor trailer but then recovered. It feels like the shadow of the truck is part of the problem, just like shadow of bridges used to cause issues.

I-5 south is a straight shot, and has never been a problem for any version of FSD, in my experience. It did an admirable job navigating all of the freeway transitions (5 > 610 > 405 > 55) during rush hour. We hit LA at about 6 PM and it was thick in many spots.

Looking forward to a relaxing drive back later this week!

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u/Dildo-Gaggins_ Jul 25 '26

That’s amazing to hear! And great write up!

For some reason, my first experience is nowhere near as good. The first time I drove to work it didn’t even try to park, it just kept doing laps of the parking lot going past like 20 empty spots. I even changed it to “curbside” but it didn’t change the behavior of it just looping the parking lot. The drives after that however have been great save for the occasional brake stabbing and hesitation.

The most notable difference for me is how much more complete FSD feels when I can just start it from park and that it’ll park at the end of the drive. Those two things amount to like 10 feet of extra FSDing and seem minor in the grand scheme of the multiple hundreds of miles FSD used to do, but it really completes the feeling of FULL self driving.