Driving Tesla FSD 12.5.4.1 in Model 3 LR 2022 AI3 in Connecticut

Well, welcome to another episode of Behind the Wheel. My name is Rob Greenlee, and I'm in my Tesla Model 3 2022 Hardware 3 or AI 3 car, and I'm trying to get this thing figured out. I, I've got a new camera that I'm using, but, uh, it's got a gimbal, so it likes to move around a little bit. But I got the updated version of FSD Supervised 12.5.4.1. And just wanted to take it out for a little test drive here. And so let's go ahead and initiate it here. All right, we have initiated the Full Self-Driving here. So it's been a little bit since I've made a video, and I did get an update to the the ASS, or the Actually Smart Summon, that is 2024.32.10, and I haven't really played with it a lot, but hopefully I'll be able to make a, make a run at it and see if it's improved much. But let's see if it manages this intersection here as I go to get my hair cut. So I do have a, a new camera. It's a, it's a DJI Osmo Pocket 3, and it's got its own gimbal on it. So I think as we drive, it's going to adjust the, the camera view a little bit around. And so it should be interesting to see what kind of a video it creates. This is in, this is in 4K. But I keep waiting on another update to the Full Self-Driving. I do know that there's a new update beyond the.1 off of the.5 track. And so we shall see if that comes through in the next couple of days, but I'm not expecting to see a large change. You know, this whole conversation that I've been hearing online a lot about the number of times you have to, you know, take over or the interventions is an interesting conversation that's happening around the full self-driving stack. I typically see just even on a short run, at least this is what I've been seeing as of the most recent updates, is that I do have to do an intervention almost every drive and of some sort. There's some sort of an issue, and believe me, I don't like to be kind of negative on the channel about the FSD software. I'm a I'm a shareholder in Tesla. I'm a big fan of what Elon Musk is trying to do out there with this, um, stack. And I, I have a lot of, um, faith and hope that at least with the, the AI 3 hardware that's in this car, that we will be able to make that jump to the, uh, the unsupervised version of this software at some point in the future. Now, granted, There's been a lot of talk about having to replace the, the kind of computer in this car and upgrade it up to an AI4 computer. There's been a lot of talk about that from the standpoint of, of, well, the current wiring harness and the cameras are, are not the same. So trying to squeeze a hardware 4 into this car may be may require a completely new version of the Hardware 3 hardware that incorporates the processor speed of like maybe a Hardware 4 or Hardware 5 type of processor. Now granted, that may have its issues as well. It seemed to manage that confliction with another car at the intersection. But it seems to be working well. So whenever I take a turn, this is interesting, this gimbal 4K camera will shift. So it has like maybe, you know, kind of like a little bit of orientation gauging in here. I didn't set it to track a particular location on the screen, but I think it's interesting. So this is an interesting kind of convergence of kind of state-of-the-art video technology with state-of-the-art car technology. I thought it was an opportunity for me to create some, maybe some different types of content about the car, about the Model 3 that I have, my experiences with it. But to kind of get back on the topic about the Hardware 3 and the Hardware 4 kind of opportunity, I'm a subscriber. I did not pay for the full self-driving, you know, the $12,000 or the $15,000 that Many people did. So I'm just paying that $99 a month subscription fee. And I've been hearing a lot of talk that Tesla will not replace the computer in this car for, for free, where they would if I had paid for Full Self-Driving the full price, which I think makes sense that Tesla would do that for those that invested that much money into Full Self-Driving and And as it turns out, looks like they're not going to be able to deliver that on a, um, on a Hardware 3 platform, um, or an older, older Tesla. So I'd probably be willing to pay for a computer upgrade. I would imagine it's going to be a few thousand dollars probably to do such a thing, but it may extend the life of this car. I know a lot of people talk about about having to buy a new Model 3 or get a Model Y or something like that, kind of upgrade the whole car versus upgrading the, the internal hardware on one of these cars. But, but I think in the bigger picture of things, it, it may be less expensive to go ahead and upgrade the just the hardware in this car than it would be to buy a whole new car. Now granted, the cost reductions and things like that may be, may be pretty significant in, in the cost of buying a new Tesla that it may make more sense to, to buy a new car. So that's a choice that I'm going to have to make. And I think a lot of early Tesla buyers— I mean, I don't consider myself to be that early of a Tesla buyer. I bought this back in the, the middle part of 2022, so I, I still feel like I'm a fairly recent car owner, Tesla car owner. So, you know, and the car doesn't have that many miles on it. I only got, I think, like 20,000 miles on it. And so I would like to upgrade it because I do like the car, and I've kept it in really good shape, and it hasn't had any problems. So I would like to kind of keep that going and just keep the same car. Now granted, there may be advantages to buying a, a newer Model 3 or a Model Y I'm not a big fan of the design of the Model Y, so I like the sleekness and the sportiness of the Model 3. And I think that the— generally the performance of the Model 3 will always be a little more than the Model Y, just from the aerodynamics standpoint. Now granted, one of the trade-offs for a Model Y is that you, you have a lot more kind of like internal cabin space that you can store things in versus the than the more limited kind of trunk and frunk and, and that's in the Model 3. So, so I've been impressed so far with the, the upgrade to the Full Self-Driving with this latest update, the.1 update. And this, this particular drive, I haven't had to really have any any like emergency interventions or anything like that. So, so far so good. I am on a freeway driving at about 53 miles an hour. You can see, and I'm going to be taking the exit here in a minute, actually off to getting my hair cut. So I'm going to let the car drive me to my appointment. So anyway, that's my update at this point with the driving part of this. I'll probably do another test in a parking lot with the ASS. I still laugh when I see that, the Actually Smart Summon technology, the 2024.32.10 version. And see if there's some significant improvements to that. So we shall see. So thank you so much for watching Behind the Wheel again. My name is Rob Greenlee, and if you, if you like this and you want to continue, I know there's a lot of other kind of FSD drive videos out there, and I just hope that you like to follow me. So thank you so much, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. So bye-bye.