Episode 8 - Full Self-Driving, for Free!
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This is episode eight. The great part about this, so this is Monday, April 1st. This is not April Fool's. What I had planned first and foremost for this episode, starting as we always do with posts that caught my attention over the past week, it was this post from user Rogue1R29 that just reads, we're all getting one month of full self-driving.

So naturally, when that dropped about a week ago, that caught my attention for something that I believe is $12,000 to purchase if you want full, full self-driving. That's a worthwhile headline if we get it for free for a month.

So, again, that was my plan, was to start off with that post, read about what's to come, this full self-driving trial. You know, hopefully I get it on my 2021 long-range Model Y. But really, this post just reads, you know, it's a screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk saying, all U.S. cars that are capable of full self-driving will be enabled for a one-month trial this week.

So again, my plan to start the show was to talk about, hey, look what's coming, full self-driving, free one-month trial, should be rolled out soon. Sounds great. The great part about it, it actually happened. Within the same week that Elon made the tweet, I started to see the posts of folks that were

Excuse me, getting it rolled out on their Model Ys. I was slightly concerned because I do have the full self-driving, at least computer and software in my vehicle. But it is an older model, second year of the Model Y. I've got a 2021 Model Y long range. And so I kept seeing posts on Reddit of folks saying, woohoo, I got the full self-driving Model

one month trial email, I've now received the update, full self-driving trial is great, I'm loving it. And then I finally got the email saying, congratulations, a one month free trial of full self-driving has been added to your account, this expires at the end of April. And so I said, great, but I still didn't see the update for my vehicle, and then within probably about 10 minutes, I received a notification from the Tesla app saying,

Basically, it's time. There's an update available for your vehicle. And what caught me off guard was that the update said just a few bug fixes. And so I figured, man, maybe I'm not getting this full self-driving trial after all. But after the update was complete, right when I log into...

You know check the release notes of the the most recent software update and right when I sat in my vehicle I get this disclaimer about how You know this supervised full self-driving is now out of my vehicle and again expires at the end of April so I want to briefly go into My review of full self-driving and for what it's worth. I've tried at one time and

And that one time was, I think I mentioned in the previous episode, a three-hour road trip between Dallas and Austin, Texas. And so for the full three hours, my plan was, all right, I'm going to test this out. Unfortunately, I didn't have an opportunity or at least remember to try the auto park or the summon feature, but I did give the full self-driving a shot. And so frankly, my review of the full self-driving is number one, as I mentioned, I'm going to

The first thing you'll see when you get that email or something that's worth paying attention to is that it's not just a one month free trial, full self-driving to use whatever month you please. It's literally until the end of April. So it's use it or lose it. You have until the end of April, whether you can use it by then, great. But if not, this may be your last opportunity. So again, I read that that was how I was going to start the podcast with, with, with,

reading this news about Elon saying everybody's going to get a free one month trial, but here I am not even a week later. The trial was rolled out to my vehicle. I've already had the chance to put it to the test and now I can thankfully give you guys a quick review on it.

So that's point number one. If you have the full self-driving computer, at least on your vehicle, I just have the basic autopilot, but I have the capabilities to upgrade to enhance your full self-driving. If that's the case with your Tesla vehicle, it sounds like during this month as well, you'll have that access to the free one month trial, which I would absolutely recommend trying out because again, it's $12,000 plus to purchase full self-driving for the vehicle.

So a few of my takeaways, one, with this full self-driving trial, the zoomed out enhanced visualization is pretty neat. Again, if you've logged on to Reddit, you scrolled through a few of the feedback sections for folks that have given this full self-driving a test. That's one of the main points that people will make was, yeah,

Yes, you got to think the visualization is better, but also this was actually a recent update as well when they I forget the update number, but they recently updated full self-driving altogether To where it's no longer running on you know many many many hundred lines of code. It's now just a essentially a neural network

powered continuously getting better using all these different inputs from all these cars beta testing it and continuously improving the full self-driving software itself which is pretty neat

So the visualization itself, while they recently updated that a few weeks back, it is much better on the full self-driving. You can see far, far ahead of what you can see with just the basic autopilot or the basic visualization. You can also see far to each side of you. You can see a little bit further behind you.

I will say it's I think it's a little bit too much though on the highway this enhanced visualization the zoomed out view because again you can see further which is amazing on that visualization you can tell that your car can make decisions based on cars you know four five six seven cars ahead of you rather than just based on the one or two that at least it can see with that standard autopilot.

So I appreciated that. However, I say it's too much on the highway because for most of my drive, I was driving on...

essentially a three-lane highway on both sides. So six total lanes, three going north, three going south, separated by a median. And that full self-driving visualization, for some reason, showed all six lanes. There's a massive median in the middle. Frankly, I don't think there's any reason to see or to show the opposite side of the highway going the opposite direction. But it did for the full drive, which...

Don't get me wrong, on city streets I think is phenomenal because you can see everything happening around you. You can see the cross traffic and the cars driving by. But on the highway it got a bit old because it's a very, very zoomed out view of your vehicle itself and what's going on around it. Whereas frankly on the highway I would have preferred a little bit more of a zoomed in view. Ideally still show me just as far out in front of me

But zoom in a bit more on my side of the highway. I don't care, frankly, about the other side. Because if you look closely, you can see things like blinker lights. And I think what's neat with the full self-driving is it seems to recognize cars behind you when they're tailgating and perhaps...

you know, perhaps you're not going fast in the flow of traffic or you're no longer passing a vehicle or going faster than the vehicle next to you, it'll automatically make a lane change over to the right, to the middle lane, um, to get out of the passing lane, which I thought was pretty intuitive and a nice, uh, touch to full self-driving as well. Um,

Another piece of feedback, and the first thing that caught my attention was right when I left the neighborhood, the first thing I did was toggle on full self-driving because I was navigating back to my house here in Austin. And my first instinct was, this is scary, this full self-driving, because it's...

For my basic autopilot, at least, I never turn it on when I'm in the city or I'm on city streets. Of course, yes, it can't recognize stoplights or stop signs, but it can technically keep you in the lane up until you want to shut it off.

I'll only use basic autopilot for highway driving, and so seeing that the vehicle entirely control itself without needing any input for me off of the highway, just making left turns at stoplights and stopping at a stop sign, gauging the cross traffic and determining when to go, that was terrifying to me. However,

That's I think we're full self-driving shines and that's where it was lacking for so long granted Again, I may not be the have the most expertise to speak on this because I have not been driving Tesla's for years and years and years and seen the true progression of full self-driving but from what I've read over the over the the past few months That's the major improvement with full self-driving is that it's finally down to where it's reliable within city driving

So again, it's terrifying that you've got to trust it to recognize the green light, make the left turn across traffic, stop where it needs to at red lights, at stop signs, and judge when to make the move, how to take the turn, can it navigate around the median. But it did that pretty dang strong when I took it through some suburban city streets off highway driving.

So it's plenty capable and impressive for off-highway driving. I do also like with full self-driving that it gives you the ability to put it on chill, standard, or aggressive mode. For reference, when I use just basic autopilot highway driving for basically every other situation when I did not have full self-driving enabled,

I'm a fan of maximizing the following distance. And so for those that have used the basic autopilot, you bump that, I believe it's the right scroll wheel to the left to increase your following distance. And they do it by number of cars. So, you know, three cars length, four cars length. I bump it all the way up to seven cars length in distance between myself and that car in front of me, which feels about right for highway driving. Feels safe. I don't have to worry about it. Um,

So I started with full self-driving on the standard mode, but quickly, like I shared, maybe it was just me being paranoid and scared of, wow, my car is controlling itself just to even get to the highway. I immediately toggled over to the chill mode because standard, I noticed, at least when I had it on standard on the highway, that the following distance was a little bit too close for comfort for me. So I bumped it down to the chill mode. Did not try the aggressive mode, but I figured that could be

That could be a fun one to play with if you have lighter traffic than I did. There are still quite a few nags with full self-driving in that the system will flash on the screen, hey, give me a nudge of the steering wheel. Basically the same as basic autopilot will do.

So just wanted to share that point. It's not completely toggle on full self-driving, close your eyes, take a nap, watch a movie. It still requires full supervision. I did have to actually take over a few times. Again, part of that, at least initially, was me

not trusting the machine, not trusting the software, so I took over where I didn't feel comfortable, but a few times it was justified. So you still definitely want to pay attention. You'll still definitely have to nudge and hold on to the steering wheel every 15, 20, 30 seconds or so as it makes sure that you're not falling asleep. All in all, when it comes to the highway and full self-driving, my personal opinion is that basic autopilot and auto steer is enough.

With full self-driving, at least my highway feedback, I noticed that anytime the speed limit changes, it naturally, and I think as we can all agree with, it adjusts your speed. So it adjusts your set speed. So if I'm cruising at, excuse me, 80 miles per hour,

with the speed limit of 75. If that speed limit drops to 65, boom, it'll drop you right down to 65 with the speed limit, or with your set cruising speed, which seemed pretty abrupt to me. Granted, I am a fan of, okay, if there's a sudden reduction in the speed limit of 10, 15 miles per hour that I didn't notice, absolutely. I would love it if my car recognizes that. It bumps me back down. But I think it needs to be a little bit more subtle.

Again, this isn't necessarily a knock on full self-driving because if I'm not mistaken, any version of autopilot will do this. But I just figured that needed to be a little bit more gradual. I also noticed along those same lines, if you're exiting the highway to... There's a lot of access roads in Texas. You know, these roads running alongside the highway. I don't need to explain it to you. But with a much slower speed on that access road right when you exit...

Same thing, it hits the brakes pretty dang hard rather than just coasting through that exit. So again, if I'm cruising at 75, 70 miles per hour, I'm starting to exit, I hit that right turn signal. In a standard gas-powered vehicle, you're going to let off the gas and really just coast as you exit the highway. With full self-driving engaged, it would notice, okay, the speed limit's actually...

35 or it's 40 on the access road and so almost immediately it would it would pretty firmly slam on the brakes knock me down from 70 miles per hour right to 40 to 45 as quick as I could which I again I thought it was a little bit too abrupt twice I had to disengage full self-driving and autopilot to actually exit the highway again part of this could have been me

potentially being overly cautious. And again, it was pretty dang steady, solid traffic in both situations. But both times, I think one of them I had about a mile and a half to exit, and I was cruising in the far left lane, figuring that the car was going to make those necessary lane changes to get me to the exit. And surely I think it would have,

But I decided to disengage and make the move myself to get over to the right, given the amount of traffic and the short distance that I had to get over. The second time, I had less than a mile until the exit, and same situation. The car seemingly was content, just camped in the far left lane. There was lots of traffic, so I disengaged, got over a couple of lanes, and then exited within the mile. So when it comes to, I think, lane changes in general,

And exiting from the interstate, I was more confident just taking over myself. But actually driving on the highway, actually city driving itself, the software itself, the decisions the vehicle makes, it's absolutely more than capable.

I will note as well, you are able to, with a checkbox, basically minimize lane changes. In your autopilot settings, you can actually minimize the amount of times your vehicle makes lane changes so that it's not playing Frogger and jumping from lane to lane.

It did, however, I did not click that minimize lane changes button because I just wanted to see what the vehicle would do. It did make some questionable lane changes, I thought. Again, I mentioned I thought it was neat in that it would automatically move out of that far left-hand passing lane if there was not a vehicle that I was passing. Or if I had just finished passing a vehicle, it would try to bump back over to that middle lane to get out of the passing lane. A couple times, though,

I had barely just passed the vehicle and my Tesla decided to flip on the turn signal and move on over to that middle lane when the car that I had just passed seemingly was still in my blind spot. I thought it was far too soon to jump back over to that middle lane, so a couple times I overrid that lane change decision. I stepped on the gas a little bit, the accelerator,

Let a little bit more distance separate myself and the car I just passed before I got over to that middle lane. So that worried me a little bit, especially if I'm passing a big semi truck. There's maybe one car's length of distance between the semi and my vehicle when it decides to make a move back to that center lane, which I wasn't too comfortable with. So I decided to override it a couple times there, at least step on the accelerator a

Anyway, wanted to share that as well. Overall, my sentiment, my thought with full self-driving, I think enhanced autopilot is the move. Enhanced autopilot for reference, you get the auto park, you get the lane change on autopilot to where you can change lanes all you want. You don't have to disengage autopilot every single time as you do with the basic autopilot.

And then you get the auto park and the summon. So for what it's worth, and again, this is just my preference, I think the cost specifically, so for it being $2,000 extra for the enhanced autopilot, I think that's a much better deal than the $12,000 plus it costs to get the full self-driving. Or the $200 a month it costs to subscribe to full self-driving.

Just my personal preference, I prefer to drive the vehicle myself if I'm off highway, if I'm in a city, I'm driving city streets, I prefer to navigate myself.

Again, while I think the Tesla, the software, the full self-driving is more than capable, it's impressive, it's nice at times, it's cool. I prefer to, and frankly trust myself to man the vehicle when I'm in the city and off the highway, but where it's really, really helpful and autopilot is extremely helpful, reduces fatigue, is on the highway. So there's three plus hour trips where

It doesn't seem like a lot because you're still having to nudge the wheel every 10, 20, 30 seconds, but not having to keep your foot on the gas and consistently flip back and forth between the gas and the brake and steering. If the car does it for you, which...

Autopilot does, but again, enhanced autopilot would give you that ability to change lanes without disengaging the autopilot every time. Plus, now that auto park works pretty well, I didn't try it myself, but I've seen great videos and feedback on it. I think enhanced autopilot is the move, especially at the cost that it's at.

I think that's all you need. So it, at most, at least my overall takeaway, granted, I tried full self-driving for, for one day before recording this podcast. It was a three hour road trip. While I did like it, I think it's really neat in the city and on off highway driving. Uh,

I think it's more than capable. My overall thought is I plan personally to stick with the basic autopilot. If I eventually have money to throw around outside of the items I mentioned of swapping out the suspension and putting a wrap or PPF on the vehicle, enhanced autopilot will be the next purchase there. There's no way that I'll ever purchase full self-driving at the current cost. In basic autopilot, at least for my use case where I

tend to only use it on the highway. Enhanced autopilot even is a nice to have. The basic autopilot and auto steer is more than capable and I think more than enough at least for what I use it for. So,

That's a lot of time spent on my feedback on full self-driving. A lot of this episode will be spent on full self-driving because I think most folks listening, frankly, probably do not subscribe to full self-driving, have not spent the $12,000 plus to purchase it, or again, are prospective buyers who are just trying to get a feel for, is this even the vehicle for me?

So let me share a couple other folks' feedback on the full self-driving trial. So again, these are posts that caught my attention over the past week. This first one is from user Mulk2026. It reads, just got my full self-driving trial and it was pretty awesome. And the photo, again, it's pretty neat. It's just as I detailed, it's a zoomed out visualization of...

City driving, four lanes on each side, massive intersection, you can see the cross traffic pretty well, it's a great image. But the post itself says, "Just tried my first full self-driving drive of both city and freeway driving. I was amazed by how smooth the drive was. It took some pretty quick decisions while making left turns, which I would not have taken. Overall, it was very smooth, but I would never pay for this feature."

Um, let me read through a few of the comments. One says I went for a five mile drive on local roads after I got home from work. I was pretty impressed with full self-driving 12. I still wouldn't buy it for what they're asking, but I would probably subscribe for a month in the summer if we were to road trip. One comment reads, I don't really care about full self-driving, but let me keep the visuals. I think we're all in agreement there. There were 14 upvotes on that one.

A lot of folks said, "Anybody else not gotten it yet? When did it roll out?" It's good to see that it is rolling out to seemingly every accessible vehicle that has access, or the computer and software for it. While it was spread out across the course of a few days, it seems as though most folks have gotten it by this point. And again, it's April 1st. Any other...

Comments here, one says, it is great. I was surprised, but is it 12k awesome? In my opinion, no. In the final comment I'll read, we were just trying it out. Overall, it's a wild experience and did really well, except for one instance where it turned left from an only straight lane while another car was coming in the other direction. I stepped on the accelerator to get through in time. Overall, very cool, but yeah, not about to pay for it.

So again, that's, that's kind of my sentiment. They're not going to pay for it. It is cool. I think it is capable. The city driving scares me. I think it's not because of lack of functionality. It's more so just, it's a crazy concept to be in the driver's seat behind the accelerator, behind the steering wheel, but not having to touch it. And this machine and this computer is just driving the car down the road, making the turns, making the decisions for you. It's a

terrifying but awesome experience so I I agree with that that comment there that's from paper crane 828 um this last post on full self-driving that I promise I'll get into to one other item um just more more feedback from another user that had it has given the full self-driving trial a shot this is from user thermo coffee the title of the post full self-driving is just magical 2023 Model Y

It's got a screenshot of that email I referenced that says, your full self-driving supervised trial starts now. You've been granted a 30-day complimentary trial of full self-driving supervised, in parentheses, for your Model Y. And then at the very bottom of the email, this trial will end on April 30th, 2024.

So the feedback from this post, from Thermo Coffee, the body of the post reads, "I took it on a 30 mile drive. Lots of street and highway driving. It's amazing how aggressive it is. It made me chuckle out loud a few times.

It likes being on the fast lane. It would always make its way over. I was mostly impressed by the street driving. It's not perfect. It made a few wide turns and didn't know what to do during road construction detours, but man, I love it. I wish it wasn't so expensive. I work from home, so there's no need for me to buy it, but if it was cheaper, I'd definitely use it.

wondered if they can offer it on a per day basis or even a per mile fee. I could see myself buying it then. So before getting into the comments, I think that's a great idea. A lot of folks want to just toggle it on even on a weekly basis or as suggested here, a daily basis for

Man, I've got a long trip coming up, cross country, halfway across the country, just to reduce fatigue. That would be a great way to do it rather than shelling out 200 bucks to subscribe for a month and canceling or committing again to thousands and thousands of dollars to purchase it outright.

Let's read through a few of these comments. Again, I like sharing the feedback of folks that have also tried it out. I mentioned I did try it on a three-hour drive, but I've tried it for one day. I've got 30 more days in the month to try it out, so I'm sure I'll provide more feedback, but I think it's worth hearing other opinions. One of the comments on this post from Mountain Man Guy, great name, says, I just got the update last night and tried it on a short 12-minute drive today.

It did pretty well, way better than previous versions of full self-driving, but I did have to take over a few times. It was close to hitting some cyclists, it liked to hug the right line a bit too far, but it did navigate a roundabout with relative ease. It needs to be way cheaper for me and a lot of other people to buy it. I wouldn't pay any more than $2,000 for it.

I will say, I read this comment actually before I went on my three hour drive, before full self-driving was rolled out to my vehicle, before I tried it, and I was worried about that, about it hugging the right lane and the right line a bit too far. You know, when I'm passing semi trucks or driving down the interstate, if there's a massive construction zone, I don't want it to hug that barrier that's right there on the shoulder too tight and scrape up the mirror.

However, I did keep full self-driving on in those construction zones, which for what it's worth, there were no construction workers there. It was nighttime. The only difference with that construction zone is it went from three lanes down to two, and there were these massive barriers right on the shoulder, right off the edge of the road. So no shoulder whatsoever.

But full self-driving did great. It kept its distance, it didn't hug that line too tightly, and stayed right within the center of the lane even though there were a few winds and turns within that construction zone.

There's a reply to that comment that says exactly my thoughts. 12.3.1 is a really impressive step forward. It however still makes regular mistakes, some minor, some severe. You therefore really still have to stay vigilant. What doesn't make driving with it all that relaxing, if not somewhat pointless?

another comment here says since i got the 12.3 update it's been on for 99 of the miles i've driven i've had it for about two weeks now it's mind-boggling how far it has come it's amazing what it is capable of now so i think that's valuable feedback you got to think this user dang boy is the username perhaps they were

early adopters of Tesla of full self-driving so they've truly witnessed how far it has actually come and now it's a true viable option for as this person puts it 99% of the miles that they've driven one comment says just drop the just drop the price to 6k for new buyers this would incentivize them to buy it on top of the car god I kind of agree with that not a bad idea there

one comment are cars with ultrasonic sensors getting this yet my model y is patiently waiting uh reply to that says you're not alone mine doesn't have it either and then a final reply says i have uss so the ultrasonic sensors and just got it it's lovely i agree with that i i have the 2021 model it has the uss it has the sensors thankfully um

And I did get it. While it was a few days later than other folks that posted about receiving the update and the free trial, I did eventually get it. So it's to that user that said, is anybody getting it yet? I'm patiently waiting. It's coming. Another comment. I love it. Only significant pet peeve is how timid it is rolling up to and proceeding through stop signs and tight turns on red.

I agree with that. Not even necessarily as much stop signs, but more so stoplights. It does a very slow crawl up to the line at a stoplight. It almost spins. You could have been stopped for an extra 10, 15 seconds had I driven up to that stop line at the stoplight versus this slow crawl it does to get up to that line. So minor thing, but odd I noticed as well.

um all right that that'll wrap it for full self-driving i know that was a lot of coverage on it today but that's obviously the the hot topic with the recent update for full self-driving the massive improvements in the software and the functionality but then also they're giving every single car that's capable of adding it a free one month trial of a 12 000 plus dollar product um

So that's been the talk of the town. That's been the talk of the Reddit thread for the past week, which is awesome to see some really great feedback on it for folks that otherwise would never get the chance to try it because it is such a high barrier to entry with the cost. So I love this idea. It surely will incentivize folks to at least subscribe monthly for the $200 a month, or I'm sure they've seen an increase in folks that have actually subscribed

taking the full jump in, the deep end, and purchase the full self-driving. Last post that caught my attention over this past week. It's from user JGuns2424. It says, favorite feature of your Tesla? Just took delivery of my Model Y Long Range last Friday, and I feel like I find something new every day. Just realized I could play music through the outside speaker. So cool.

So I'll read through a few of these comments. Again, I think it's helpful for prospective buyers, but also folks that own a Tesla and haven't even realized that these hidden features are here or like myself, knew about them, but just totally forgot about them and haven't used them much. So one says, and this is pretty neat, if you have a home address saved, you can just swipe down on the search bar when you're on the map screen and it'll automatically set your directions to home.

One thing I'll add about that is if you do have your home address saved and your work address saved, every time I get in in the morning on a weekday, without me even touching the screen, it's automatically set up and routed the navigation to my work.

And then once I get in at the end of the day, if it's a weekday around 5, 6 p.m., it automatically navigates me home without me even having to touch the screen. That's something I didn't have to program into the vehicle. All I had to do was program in my home address and my work address. And then the Tesla itself, the software picked up on my daily routines and automatically routes me to home or to work based on the time and day of the week, which is a really, really cool.

Another comment just says acceleration favorite feature Love this one. This is from Andalee47 It says sharing address from my phone to the Tesla app is pretty awesome It beats typing in and searching for it on the car screen When I can just open up an address from a text someone sends me and send it to the car. Excuse me. I love this I absolutely love this feature if you're looking

you know whether somebody sends you an address of a golf course that they want you to meet them at or a bar that you want to go to or you're just looking on maps on your phone prior to your drive or right as you're getting into your vehicle and you find where you want to go the same way you would send a photo to somebody or send a location to somebody you just click that share button and rather than clicking the name of the person you want to send it to and you know via text

there's a little tesla logo you just click that tesla logo boom it sends it to your vehicle and then right when you sit in and sit down in your vehicle the navigation pops up with that location that you send it to so you click one button and you can navigate to it pretty dang cool and 100 agree it beats typing out that full address and searching on the navigation screen another comment just says the best feature is no gas another one dash cam plus battery plus fast

Uh, one says the fart machine. Here's another one, uh, along the lines of ease of navigation. It says navigation links to my calendar and full self-driving drives me, drives me to my next appointment. Pretty darn cool. Um,

I love this one, and this is, I put a gold star next to this. This is why Teslas are so great. It says, I've had a Tesla for two and a half years now, and the fact that it has gotten better over time due to over-the-air updates is wild. I'd say that over-the-air updates are what makes Tesla so far ahead of the competition. 100% agree. That's what I absolutely love about this. The second that I saw that post from Elon saying,

we're going to enable one month free full self-driving trial over the coming week. I was worried that, okay, maybe just 2023, 2024 models are going to get this, probably won't apply to my second Model Y

model or year ever, the 2021 that I have. But thankfully, because I have that full self-driving computer on the vehicle, it has the capability, even though I haven't purchased it, it was also rolled out to my vehicle as well, which was awesome.

So it allows for what would typically be an outdated model not to go outdated, or at least as outdated, especially when we're talking the software and the capability of the vehicle, not just aesthetics.

I'll end off with this comment because I couldn't agree more. This is what led me, the uniqueness of this and the one pedal driving was what led me to purchase a Tesla. This is from user Snit GTS. It says, "I don't know if I would call this my favorite, but I really like how they implemented one pedal driving.

And bear with me here, it's somewhat long, but I want to read it. I had a Ford C-Max Hybrid before I got my Tesla, and the brakes on that thing gave me a horrible scare once. If I pressed the brake pedal lightly, it would regen the battery to slow the car. But if you pressed the brake pedal hard, it would use the friction brakes. And anywhere in between, the car didn't always know what to do.

One time in particular, it got caught in the middle and it did not brake as hard as I was expecting and I almost rear-ended the car in front of me. Freaking scary. In the Tesla, the brake pedal is always the friction brakes. So the standard brake pads that folks are used to. The regen is tied to the position of the accelerator and while that can be inconsistent if it is cold or the battery isn't fully warmed up, you always have the trusty brake pedal.

100% agree with this. One, it's just intuitive. Again, it took me two, three days to get used to that one pedal driving, but now that I'm used to it,

It's just, it's a click and a switch flips in your head of just why are all cars not built this way? Obviously, I'm not a mechanic. I don't understand the engineering behind vehicles, but it makes so much sense not to have to flip back and forth between the brake pedal to the accelerator and back and then coast when you let off the accelerator. So ease of use for one, but two,

the safety of it because you think about it the time it takes you in a regular vehicle gas powered vehicle to let off the accelerator and step on and slam on that brake pedal to slow down

The second that you ease up off that accelerator, the half second, the fraction of a second it takes to ease off that accelerator and then move your foot over the brake, the Tesla's already slowed down during that time. Because as this user pointed out, the regen braking is based on the positioning of the accelerator. So the second you let off that accelerator, boom, the regen braking is kicking in and it's slowing the vehicle even before you even step down on that brake pedal.

So it's safer. You've got to think the amount of time it takes to actually come to a full stop is a bit quicker versus, and this is me speaking out of turn, this is not factually based at all, but solely based on that

the speed in which it breaks because of the regenerative braking the second you let up off that accelerator, the vehicle's slowing down. It's safety built in along with just the ease of use and the intuitiveness that goes with the one pedal driving. So 100% agree with that. I love it. And I thought that was a worthwhile post of just what is your favorite feature of the Tesla and the Model Y. Again, that was from user...

Jay Gons 2424 was posted four hours ago on April 1st. So there's plenty of comments on it growing by the minute. Scheduled departure, regen breaking, easy entry, voice commands, the light show. There's tons of other comments on there. So if you're curious, prospective buyer, current owner, about just what else is there that isn't highlighted all across the internet, I thought that was a great post for it.

So that wraps what caught my attention over the past week. Real briefly, my why of the week best looking Model Y that I saw this week. This is from user Okindad1. It just says my 23 Model Y long range work in progress update. It says what's up everyone. I finally got around to installing H&R lowering springs and 18 millimeter spacers all around thanks to Alvin at SC Motorsports.

Great looking vehicle. It's got some custom light gray paint on it. It looks metallic. It's not a matte finish. Potentially glossy. Those two are the same in my book. But some cool details to the vehicle. They got the 20 inch induction wheels.

blacked out rims, of course, which are standard blacked out handlebars. They've got the black roof wraps, roof racks on the top. They don't have like a custom splitter installed, but they've got what looks to be like a black vinyl wrap on the front lip of the vehicle. So between the two fog lights, the very front lower lip, which I think adds a really unique look. I've seen a few white Model Ys with that same just black

over a portion of that front lip that looks really neat, just adds some cool contrast to it, gives it a more aggressive look. Anyway, this user, Okindad1, shout out to you, you win my why of the week, great looking vehicle. Again, can only do it so much justice on a,

on a podcast. But smoked out tail lights, rear fender fin, I don't know what you would call that. Slight thin black fin on the back. Looks great. So shout out to you, Okindad1 for the why of the week. That's our show. I know we ran a bit long. Full self-driving took up a ton of time, but it's fun to talk about. It's more fun to play with.

Again, there's an open forum text box over on Spotify to leave me your feedback on the show. I'm curious to hear y'all's feedback with full self-driving. If you leave me some feedback, I'll read it on the next show. I'll also leave a poll over there on Spotify. Curious to get y'all's feedback on that as well, so go check that out. And if you haven't already, leave me a quick review.

Anything you can leave, sharing it with a friend, whatever it may be. Much appreciated. That helps other people find us. So I appreciate y'all's time. Episode 8 of the Why Tesla Model Y podcast out. See you next time.