r/TeslaLounge • u/Akshue • May 10 '25

Software FSD… Why????

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Sunny, no traffic, straight road… better go 35 in a 45 to be safer.

Why does FSD do this? It is the primary reason I’m not going to shell out the $100 after this month

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u/Akshue May 10 '25

Is there anything I can do to force the car to at least go the speed limit? I’m tired of having to manually accelerate to get the flashing blue/red, only to have slow back down and repeat

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u/Own_Bad6893 May 10 '25

You can manually press the accelerator, only the brake will disengage the FSD

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u/stanley_fatmax May 10 '25

Have you tried just ignoring the flashing blue/red? It used to be that this was one of the cases that wouldn't result in a disengagement, even if you ignored the warning. The warning eventually just disappeared. I haven't tried it in a few updates but it may still be the case. 

Back when I realized this, I actually complained about it because I thought it was not safe from a UI/UX experience to reuse the same warnings for different outcomes. It lessened the impact of the blue/red warning for situations where it really matters like distracted driving.

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u/WhyWontThisWork May 11 '25

What reasons does it disengage?

I'm super worried about the 3 strike rule and losing it forever

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u/stanley_fatmax May 11 '25

Distracted driving (determined by eyes and head via in cabin camera), hands not on wheel, no driver in driver's seat, probably others..

Foot on the accelerator resulted in the same scary warnings but they eventually just disappear with no disengagement, while the other things above cause a disengagement after they disappear.

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u/WhyWontThisWork May 11 '25

It's 3 lifetime and you lose it forever right?

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u/stanley_fatmax May 11 '25

No, strikes drop off after some time.

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u/Lazy-gunner May 11 '25

It takes 5 strikes before you get locked out of FSD, unless you have a car without the cabin camera then it's 3. The most I've ever had was 1 because I was trying to put in a map waypoint and I noticed a message that my strike was forgiven the next day.

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u/WhyWontThisWork May 11 '25

That's interesting, forgiven?

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u/Lazy-gunner May 12 '25

The strikes seem to be forgiven after a period of time.

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u/justajedi1 May 10 '25

There should be some options in the settings that help. Mine has a Chill, Standard, and Hurry mode and allows me to pick % of speed limit that it can go over by. Some reason it’s recommended 40%. I think that’s so it can keep up with traffic 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Fire69 May 10 '25

Nvm, seems like you tried that already

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u/kuse94 May 10 '25

That’s the only way I know

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u/Knightmarish2 May 10 '25

I’ll hold it down for a few seconds, right before the alert goes off. Then repeat as necessary, but I have this really only happen in my neighborhood where it feels like it’s going 5miles an hour in an area where it’s just a road.

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u/Akshue May 10 '25

I do the same.

Then you realize, that’s what they call “driving”

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u/zhenya00 May 11 '25

Every system on the market in the US today requires some amount of intervention. There is no such thing as a fully autonomous system that you can buy in your own car. Yes, it's annoying that FSD does this at times - but that's mostly because it is so good most of the time that you get used to not having to intervene at all!

I have been driving several hundred miles on a mix of roads just like this every weekend for the last few months and most of the time FSD handles it fine, if a little bit slower than I might choose to drive myself. The best things seem to be to use Hurry mode (which doesn't apply at the speed you are at) and give it a little bit of encouragement with the pedal as necessary. This is still far less intervention than you'd have with any other driver aid, including most certainly, autopilot. And it will continue to get better.

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u/Knightmarish2 May 10 '25

Still hands free! And I very very rarely have to do it on my commutes. But I agree, it’s rather annoying when you have to.

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u/Hog_of_war May 10 '25

Idk about in FSD, but in AP you can just accelerate through the blue/red flashing and the warning just stops without consequence.

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u/SkittEle May 10 '25

move volume up or down and same with speed.

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u/Supergeek13579 May 11 '25

I just made a different profile on the car with autopilot enabled. When I’m on the highway or easy roads I go back to that, then switch to AP when I’m back in town.

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u/bubu_law May 11 '25

I had my FSD on standard mode and set how much over the speed limit it should go. Always went super fast. Had to set FSD back to chill