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FSD 14.1.7 (or mapping?) fail: turning into oncoming traffic in a one-way street.

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I’m reposting this as people ripped me apart for not being aware that it was a one-way. Before you point my fault, I admit my fault as there was the sign posted on top of the stop sign that I didn’t notice. I presumed the FSD wouldn’t make such an elementary and serious error. I am posting this so that it somehow gets noticed how dangerous it is unsupervised in remote areas with no good mapping.

These happened on a road trip (570 miles round) we took over the Thanksgiving weekend in Colorado. I had engaged FSD for the most part. As we entered rural Colorado, I noticed several quirks in the FSD:

  1. ⁠The AI tries to keep the car in the right lane. Several times in the middle of nowhere on the highway when there was a right-only lane, it would try to go to that lane only then to realize it should have stayed in the original lane.

  2. ⁠It struggled at times with indecision on how to get to the supercharger. I saw the map change several times before it took a left turn. I could see the steering go back and forth prior to the turn. It didn’t put the turn signal on till the last moment. (As a side note, it overestimated the remaining battery percentage if I went to a supercharger. Caused some range anxiety as I reached with 6% left. But this is not an FSD issue.)

  3. ⁠The icing on the cake was when the car took a right turn into oncoming traffic on a one-way street. As I mentioned earlier, I didn’t notice that it was a one-way, and there were obviously no vehicles there at the time it decided to turn. As soon as it did so, I saw a car blink its headlights in front- it took me 1-2 seconds to understand what was happening. Soon after, I took control and parked it across the street….

It is noteworthy that these sort of things have NEVER happened in the city. I therefore feel this is a serious problem with mapping. I mean, if they want to make FSD safe, why not get Google Data fully? I don’t think Google Maps would have made this mistake of allowing this turn (though I admit I can’t say for sure now).