How Well Does the Tesla Model Y's Full Self-Driving Feature Work?
Key takeaways
- We drove it in every traffic situation and found the thing we liked least about it is its name.
- Michael Simari|Car and Driver How well does the Tesla Model Y's well-known Full Self-Driving system work?
- The correct name for the feature is "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)." The word in parentheses says it all.
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We drove it in every traffic situation and found the thing we liked least about it is its name.
Michael Simari|Car and Driver How well does the Tesla Model Y's well-known Full Self-Driving system work? After spending several days letting it do its thing on the roads and highways surrounding Car and Driver's Ann Arbor, Michigan, offices, as well as in San Francisco, we can report that it works impressively well. Most of the time. In most driving situations. Usually. With an asterisk.
That asterisk comes courtesy of Tesla. The correct name for the feature is "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)." The word in parentheses says it all. In the company's literature explaining the system, Tesla emphasizes that drivers must keep their attention on the road to ensure that the system operates without disconnecting, which it will do automatically if it detects that you're looking away from the road for too long. Which is another way of saying that the system's not perfect, and it might make a mistake, so you have to keep your eye on it.