Self Driving Tesla on an Icy Snow Storm | SLIPPERY ROADS!!!

[@glenbrown4075]

There is not enough information available about assisted driving features being used on icy roads. I have been measuring friction on ice and snow for twenty years with a truck attachment. I witness twenty or more slide-offs a day in Alberta, during the weather that creates the black ice. I see the rollovers and unfortunately one fatal collision between a pickup truck and a bus in 2005. Since 2018-2020 Ford, Chev and Ram offer pickup trucks with hands-free mode. There is a note on some of the advertising saying that the hands-free mode is not to be used on slippery roads, yet highways all over Canada are supposedly approved for hands-free mode. I enjoyed your video but the pavement must have been warmer than freezing temperature to melt the snow. If the pavement is below zero Centigrade, that moist snow freezes to the pavement. I call that adhering ice. Sometimes it just looks harmless like loose snow or slush but under the loose snow could be adhering ice. Even in the absence of adhering ice, loose snow and slush can be dangerous if travelling faster. It would be interesting to know how well the Tesla FSD (or any vehicle with assisted driving) do on ice at faster speeds in rural areas. Choose a paved secondary road outside of Winnipeg that has hard-packed snow or ice, no traffic, and see if the FSD knows enough to drive slow. Tell it to turn at an icy intersection. Drive up to a stop sign or T-intersection fast and see if it starts braking in time. Do this safely of course.

[@teslapeg]

Thank you so much for your detailed comment and for sharing your invaluable experience. It’s clear you’ve spent a lot of time understanding how ice and snow affect road safety, and your perspective is incredibly valuable. You’re absolutely right-there isn’t enough real-world data on how assisted driving features perform on icy roads, especially under extreme conditions like black ice or adhering ice. Your point about the potential dangers of loose snow over frozen pavement is something that definitely needs more exploration. I really appreciate your suggestion to test Tesla’s FSD capabilities in these conditions. I’m based in one of the coldest cities in the world, so as soon as we get heavy snow and icy roads, I’ll be creating some dedicated winter content to put Tesla’s FSD through the exact scenarios you described. I plan to test it on secondary roads with minimal traffic, focusing on how it handles icy intersections, sudden stops at T-intersections, and sharp turns on slippery surfaces. Hopefully, this will help shed light on how these systems perform in real-world Canadian winters, providing the data and insights you and others are looking for. Thanks again for your input-it really helps shape the kind of content I make. Stay tuned, and I hope the upcoming videos will give you some valuable data!

[@shaneofcanada7042]

I always wondered how FSD would do with Winnipeg's horrible lane markings.

[@teslapeg]

Well…. I tried the FSD in worse weather with a RWD Tesla with summer tires and was definitely a different story 😂 Stay tuned, will upload that in a week 😀