Tesla FSD vs REAL LA Streets | Insane Edge Case Torture Test (Mount Washington + 110 Freeway)
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A live, in-car torture test pits Tesla FSD (camera-only, v14.2.2.5, HW4) against real downtown Los Angeles chaos—starting on the 110 freeway and climbing to Mount Washington’s narrow, unmarked, trash-day roads near the Self-Realization Fellowship. Johnny, a first-time FSD user, toggles Mad Max mode and watches the car handle double yellows, potholes/shadows, pedestrians/ghost-like phantom detections, tight turns, and stop-sign edge cases. Highlights include impressive “human-like” evasions and aggressive on-ramp merging, plus frustrations like slow stop-sign timing and an illegal parking spot at the end.
We put Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD v14) to the ultimate real-world test—no easy suburban routes, no perfect conditions. Instead, we dropped it straight into old Los Angeles chaos: ⚠️ Blind corners ⚠️ One-lane mountain roads ⚠️ Garbage trucks, pedestrians, and zero lane markings ⚠️ The infamous 110 freeway on-ramp (with basically NO acceleration lane) This is a true edge-case torture test—and the results are wild.
Tesla Model
"...the future of self-driving. And we are in a 2022 Tesla Model Y. 2023."
Ford Eco Sport
"Here comes Eco... what is it called? Ford Eco Sport? Yeah, which was neither Eco nor Sport."
Rivian R1T
"And then the other thing I was going to ask you is, do you have a Rivian R1-T Gen 1 2022? So you have the old hardware, but do you have you have you"
Toyota Camry
"It's going to pull over. It's going to let this camry go through. Yeah."
Tesla Model 3
"..., I've noticed. I mean, back when do we have the Model 3 for the first time? That was like 2015, 416?"
Tesla Model X
"...think it was the Model 3. It might have been the Model X. But I had to go visit my mom."
Volkswagen Id4
"There's a guy walking, there's a scooter. Is that an ID.4 that I take one? How's it take one?"
Mercedes-Benz Sclass
"Definitely give theirs shot, there's a shot, although the major update is CLA and then S-Class with the latest version of a drive pilot."
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