**A Closer Look at Tesla's Autopilot System**

As I drove along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) with Tesla's Model X on autopilot, I was impressed by its capabilities. The display screen displayed information about my car's surroundings, including the cars around me and the road conditions. The system seemed to be reading the road well, with nicely defined markings and a smooth flow of traffic. This type of road is ideal for autopilot, as it provides clear visual cues that help the system navigate.

I was able to cruise along PCH for 25 miles without needing to intervene, which is no small feat. The Model X's Autopilot system is designed to handle long stretches of highway with ease, making it a great option for commuters who want to enjoy a trouble-free ride. However, I did notice that the system required me to hold the steering wheel periodically, likely due to changes in road conditions or obstacles.

One of the most impressive features of the Model X's Autopilot system is its ability to detect and adjust to unexpected events on the road. When I encountered a curb that moved unexpectedly, the system automatically disengaged and required me to take control of the vehicle again. While this might seem like a hassle, it's a testament to the system's reliability and ability to prioritize safety.

In contrast to some other semi-autonomous systems on the market, Tesla's Autopilot is surprisingly effective at steering the vehicle. When I engaged the blinker with autopilot enabled, the system checked it and made adjustments to ensure safe lane changes. This feature is unique to Tesla's system and adds an extra layer of convenience for drivers who want to minimize their involvement in driving.

**Design and Build Quality**

While the Model X's Autopilot system is impressive, I couldn't help but feel that the car's design and build quality are areas where Tesla could improve. The "door" mechanism on the Model X is certainly...unconventional, and while it may have been a bold idea to incorporate this feature into a production vehicle, its execution falls short. The door handles don't quite fit together seamlessly, and I found myself noticing this issue more than once during my test drive.

This is where some other luxury cars excel: build quality and attention to detail are paramount when it comes to creating a premium driving experience. With the Model X's $140,000 price tag, one would think that these issues wouldn't be present. While Tesla has made significant strides in improving its build quality over time, there's still room for improvement.

**Conclusion**

The Tesla Model X's Autopilot system is undoubtedly one of the most advanced and capable semi-autonomous systems on the market today. Its ability to navigate complex roads with ease and detect unexpected events is impressive. However, I couldn't help but feel that the car's design and build quality could be improved upon.

That being said, if you're someone who values convenience, style, and a unique driving experience, the Model X may be worth considering. And while it's true that not everyone will require or appreciate all of the advanced features on offer – including Autopilot – for those who do, Tesla has delivered a truly exceptional vehicle.

**Additional Notes**

I'd like to extend my gratitude to Toro for providing me with the opportunity to test drive the Model X and to Darren, the owner of this beautiful car, for making it available for our video. Thank you also to our viewers for tuning in – we're glad you enjoyed this review!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning everybody welcome to Malibu today I've got a Tesla Model X p90d this one is actually not from Tesla I got it from Toro Toro is sort of like the Airbnb for cars so you can rent someone's car from their personal car you can rent out your own car in fact the gentleman who owns this particular Model X has an m4 and m5 he also rents on Toro so you can kind of make a business out of it which is cool so Model X 90d this one does not have ludicrous mode it has the second biggest battery pack there's a hundred D now which is even more power and even more range but ninety D is pretty good this thing is is quick it's about a hundred and forty grand it's not cheap and this one also has the air suspension the nice big black wheels a crazy black and white interior it's like the belly in here or something but uh but it drives cool what is really interesting about this car like what I said with the Model S was I kind of wanted a little less chach and a little more kind of solidity and and and quality and the fine things and so there's a few things about this car that kind of drive me nuts for instance the the door handles which look like they should line up perfectly on the passenger side don't and I looked at a bunch of other model X's in a parking lot because they're all over LA and a bunch of them were like that too there's also some like squeaks and rattles in here as you'll see as I go for a drive which is weird for a brand new car so that being said oh also I can't open the Falcon doors in my garage my DeLorean wasn't a problem because that car is low but this thing is like as tall as a Tacoma and then if you add gullwing doors like nobody can get in the backseat in my garage so I don't really understand the point of that one so as far as our settings we're going to go into insane mode no ludicrous mode on this one and for suspension I'm low right now I'm going to switch to very high just so I can get off this nasty looking curb the air suspension goes quick which I which I like it's a quick-acting there we go and we're going to go back to standard to drive all right well let's let's have a drive down this road I don't know if you can see it in that shot but as I've learned Tesla's GPS is based on cell phone signal and when you lose cell phone signal you lose GPS which is huh which is not good because your car's GPS is supposed to help you when you lose cell phone signal that's how all the other ones work I don't know why this one can't be like that this thing is it's big and it's heavy but with all the electric torque with the very low center of gravity with the battery packs in the floor it gets around a corner pretty good the steering is a bit you know video gaming it's obviously fully electric to the point where the car can steer itself but it's it's okay it's a you don't you don't buy a Tesla for steering feel and it's it's fine it's good for a daily driven car go we're going to go down this little Canyon here and then we're going to turn on to the PCH can you I don't know if you guys can hear that when I go over these little bumps there there's actually rattles in the car and this thing is brand new it's got like 3,000 miles on it not a prepped press car mind you it's just a retail sale I don't want to follow this guy well I've timed badly give me a second okay I will say that driving an electric vehicle around LA is a wonderfully relaxing experience I really do love that nothing here my stuff sliding around in the back that means we have grip that's good really tight 180 hairpin good turning radius from the from the Model X actually it's good for for pulling in two parking spaces and has really good parking sensors and cameras and stuff like that it's very easy to park what I love about this as we go downhill I have my regenerative braking set to high so I really don't have to use the actual brakes all that much except for these tight corners here and and I can be recharging my battery as gravity pulls me down the hill there's my Yeti cup sorry about that and oh by the way it's really quick it's quick enough that on a tight road like this if you're not careful you could probably overdrive the brakes without much trouble look at that view though that's spectacular and I've moved this camera here to try and accentuate my absolute favorite feature of the Model X which is this windshield it's about an acre and a half huge and it probably costs about as much as an acre and a half in a flyover State but damn I mean it's it's almost as if you're driving a car without a windshield at all because it just goes all the way up and when you drive through the city at night or under a beautiful sky or even here look at this ocean view we've got going on I mean it's magnificent I like I do like how the Model X drives like a lot it drives really really good it's got the right you know it's got the right amount of torque for the city there's no hole in traffic that is too small for the Model X and we've caught this Range Rover again that's okay because we're at the bottom of the hill we're going on the PCH and I'm going to do some auto piloting oh boy oh boy that corner was really hard for you wasn't it these seats are a little more comfortable I think than the last the Model S I drove although perfectly honest that that could be in my head they might be exactly the same seats but maybe just a little more room a little higher up and and it feels it feels comfy although not a ton of adjustments just your basic stuff and heated and cooled alright wait till this light turns green then we're gonna go out on a PCH and I'm going to let the Model X do some driving where you go out on a PCH I in the Model S I tested autopilot in the canyons and it didn't really like the tight stuff it was more more happy in the open stuff but here on PCH it works really good easy to set you just pull the trigger twice next to the steering wheel and now we are Auto piloting autopilot as a term is a bit of a misnomer in the vernacular in that the technical definition of the word autopilot which Alex Roy wrote a great editorial about now is an assistance device for pilots like I use autopilot on boats a lot and basically you just set a heading and the boat will keep that heading that doesn't mean it will avoid stuff you got to do that yourself and an autopilot has such a cool name that it implies like the thing from the movie airplane that inflates like it doesn't it doesn't do everything for you it's just a very very advanced cruise control system basically so here on PCH the display is really seeing the cars around me doing well it's reading the road well this type of road is great for autopilot really well defined markings the traffic's all kind of flowing together in a nice way and so I could go all the way twenty-five miles back to my house that shares house by the way I go all the way down PCH on autopilot and it really wouldn't be much of a problem although it gives you a little flash it wants me to hold the steering wheel for a second so it comes and goes but but it's fine the actually the hardest part about autopilot is he had a disengagement there because it detected the chain the curb moved and stuff like that the hardest part about autopilot and now we're back on is being ready like it's actually harder to be ready to take over than it is just to steer whereas you know the the the radar cruise control portion of it that controls the speed in the distance is excellent in pretty much all the high-end cars it's when it comes to the steering and you can use just the cruise control and steer yourself or you can let it do it you see it's sort of it's sort of bumper bowling a little bit between the lanes but it's doing a pretty decent job up here on PCH this is you know when it when it comes to just cruising these Tesla's are amazing because they're very quiet in here that refined they're effortless and they give you this sort of cocoon like vault that takes you away from traffic and that takes you away from the noises and the smells of the outside world in Los Angeles I like the Model X it's like we have to give Tesla a lot of credit I mean this is their their second ever real production car the Roadster doesn't count and and can we go there we go and for a set for their second ever production cars he is incredible I mean they've they've figured out so much cool stuff but they've really they've really bit off a lot maybe a little more than they can chew with the the kitchy doors like I just I don't get the doors like in a DeLorean I get it in a 300sl Gullwing I get it but when the car is already this tall why do you need your doors to be so much taller and it's like the engineering behind that mechanism and the sensors it's like a great idea and it really seems like it would make a lot of sense but in the real world that just kind of doesn't which is which is disappointing and and there's if they really stepped it up to make the the fit and finish just exceptional that would be something cuz this is $140,000 car and I've heard people go well you don't buy a Tesla for build quality listen to me for $140,000 everything counts like they say it's singer everything is important okay so if the door handle doesn't line up perfectly on my Model X I don't really care if it has this great cruise control system because that will bug me and it will not ever stop bugging me it just won't and so that drives me crazy but this thing is really really cool anyone who says they want one or they've bought one and they love it I get that people have different priorities for me I don't need everyone to be think how I think and if you want your car to be a spaceship like as possible this is a spaceship like as a car gets and and I don't I don't blame anyone for liking something like that I think we've about covered the Model X Oh what's cool is if I if I use the blinker here with autopilot it will actually check it and change lanes for me which is that's something unique to test let the Mercedes the self drive system drive assist whatever they call it that one doesn't do that this one this one does it and does it pretty well I would say so I'm going to bail right here we're going to end this video because I think that is pretty sufficient for the Model X it's a really really cool car I'd be interested to see what the long-term reliability is of the doors and all the weird gadgets and stuff in here but as something that makes your daily commuting life very pleasant I would say that this and the Model S are about as pleasant to place to spend your traffic filled mornings and nights you know as anything it's it's it's lovely so thank you to Toro for hooking it up no quid pro quo they just got me the car thank you to the owner Darren for for being a fan of the show and taking getting this thing nice and clean for me thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys next time byegood morning everybody welcome to Malibu today I've got a Tesla Model X p90d this one is actually not from Tesla I got it from Toro Toro is sort of like the Airbnb for cars so you can rent someone's car from their personal car you can rent out your own car in fact the gentleman who owns this particular Model X has an m4 and m5 he also rents on Toro so you can kind of make a business out of it which is cool so Model X 90d this one does not have ludicrous mode it has the second biggest battery pack there's a hundred D now which is even more power and even more range but ninety D is pretty good this thing is is quick it's about a hundred and forty grand it's not cheap and this one also has the air suspension the nice big black wheels a crazy black and white interior it's like the belly in here or something but uh but it drives cool what is really interesting about this car like what I said with the Model S was I kind of wanted a little less chach and a little more kind of solidity and and and quality and the fine things and so there's a few things about this car that kind of drive me nuts for instance the the door handles which look like they should line up perfectly on the passenger side don't and I looked at a bunch of other model X's in a parking lot because they're all over LA and a bunch of them were like that too there's also some like squeaks and rattles in here as you'll see as I go for a drive which is weird for a brand new car so that being said oh also I can't open the Falcon doors in my garage my DeLorean wasn't a problem because that car is low but this thing is like as tall as a Tacoma and then if you add gullwing doors like nobody can get in the backseat in my garage so I don't really understand the point of that one so as far as our settings we're going to go into insane mode no ludicrous mode on this one and for suspension I'm low right now I'm going to switch to very high just so I can get off this nasty looking curb the air suspension goes quick which I which I like it's a quick-acting there we go and we're going to go back to standard to drive all right well let's let's have a drive down this road I don't know if you can see it in that shot but as I've learned Tesla's GPS is based on cell phone signal and when you lose cell phone signal you lose GPS which is huh which is not good because your car's GPS is supposed to help you when you lose cell phone signal that's how all the other ones work I don't know why this one can't be like that this thing is it's big and it's heavy but with all the electric torque with the very low center of gravity with the battery packs in the floor it gets around a corner pretty good the steering is a bit you know video gaming it's obviously fully electric to the point where the car can steer itself but it's it's okay it's a you don't you don't buy a Tesla for steering feel and it's it's fine it's good for a daily driven car go we're going to go down this little Canyon here and then we're going to turn on to the PCH can you I don't know if you guys can hear that when I go over these little bumps there there's actually rattles in the car and this thing is brand new it's got like 3,000 miles on it not a prepped press car mind you it's just a retail sale I don't want to follow this guy well I've timed badly give me a second okay I will say that driving an electric vehicle around LA is a wonderfully relaxing experience I really do love that nothing here my stuff sliding around in the back that means we have grip that's good really tight 180 hairpin good turning radius from the from the Model X actually it's good for for pulling in two parking spaces and has really good parking sensors and cameras and stuff like that it's very easy to park what I love about this as we go downhill I have my regenerative braking set to high so I really don't have to use the actual brakes all that much except for these tight corners here and and I can be recharging my battery as gravity pulls me down the hill there's my Yeti cup sorry about that and oh by the way it's really quick it's quick enough that on a tight road like this if you're not careful you could probably overdrive the brakes without much trouble look at that view though that's spectacular and I've moved this camera here to try and accentuate my absolute favorite feature of the Model X which is this windshield it's about an acre and a half huge and it probably costs about as much as an acre and a half in a flyover State but damn I mean it's it's almost as if you're driving a car without a windshield at all because it just goes all the way up and when you drive through the city at night or under a beautiful sky or even here look at this ocean view we've got going on I mean it's magnificent I like I do like how the Model X drives like a lot it drives really really good it's got the right you know it's got the right amount of torque for the city there's no hole in traffic that is too small for the Model X and we've caught this Range Rover again that's okay because we're at the bottom of the hill we're going on the PCH and I'm going to do some auto piloting oh boy oh boy that corner was really hard for you wasn't it these seats are a little more comfortable I think than the last the Model S I drove although perfectly honest that that could be in my head they might be exactly the same seats but maybe just a little more room a little higher up and and it feels it feels comfy although not a ton of adjustments just your basic stuff and heated and cooled alright wait till this light turns green then we're gonna go out on a PCH and I'm going to let the Model X do some driving where you go out on a PCH I in the Model S I tested autopilot in the canyons and it didn't really like the tight stuff it was more more happy in the open stuff but here on PCH it works really good easy to set you just pull the trigger twice next to the steering wheel and now we are Auto piloting autopilot as a term is a bit of a misnomer in the vernacular in that the technical definition of the word autopilot which Alex Roy wrote a great editorial about now is an assistance device for pilots like I use autopilot on boats a lot and basically you just set a heading and the boat will keep that heading that doesn't mean it will avoid stuff you got to do that yourself and an autopilot has such a cool name that it implies like the thing from the movie airplane that inflates like it doesn't it doesn't do everything for you it's just a very very advanced cruise control system basically so here on PCH the display is really seeing the cars around me doing well it's reading the road well this type of road is great for autopilot really well defined markings the traffic's all kind of flowing together in a nice way and so I could go all the way twenty-five miles back to my house that shares house by the way I go all the way down PCH on autopilot and it really wouldn't be much of a problem although it gives you a little flash it wants me to hold the steering wheel for a second so it comes and goes but but it's fine the actually the hardest part about autopilot is he had a disengagement there because it detected the chain the curb moved and stuff like that the hardest part about autopilot and now we're back on is being ready like it's actually harder to be ready to take over than it is just to steer whereas you know the the the radar cruise control portion of it that controls the speed in the distance is excellent in pretty much all the high-end cars it's when it comes to the steering and you can use just the cruise control and steer yourself or you can let it do it you see it's sort of it's sort of bumper bowling a little bit between the lanes but it's doing a pretty decent job up here on PCH this is you know when it when it comes to just cruising these Tesla's are amazing because they're very quiet in here that refined they're effortless and they give you this sort of cocoon like vault that takes you away from traffic and that takes you away from the noises and the smells of the outside world in Los Angeles I like the Model X it's like we have to give Tesla a lot of credit I mean this is their their second ever real production car the Roadster doesn't count and and can we go there we go and for a set for their second ever production cars he is incredible I mean they've they've figured out so much cool stuff but they've really they've really bit off a lot maybe a little more than they can chew with the the kitchy doors like I just I don't get the doors like in a DeLorean I get it in a 300sl Gullwing I get it but when the car is already this tall why do you need your doors to be so much taller and it's like the engineering behind that mechanism and the sensors it's like a great idea and it really seems like it would make a lot of sense but in the real world that just kind of doesn't which is which is disappointing and and there's if they really stepped it up to make the the fit and finish just exceptional that would be something cuz this is $140,000 car and I've heard people go well you don't buy a Tesla for build quality listen to me for $140,000 everything counts like they say it's singer everything is important okay so if the door handle doesn't line up perfectly on my Model X I don't really care if it has this great cruise control system because that will bug me and it will not ever stop bugging me it just won't and so that drives me crazy but this thing is really really cool anyone who says they want one or they've bought one and they love it I get that people have different priorities for me I don't need everyone to be think how I think and if you want your car to be a spaceship like as possible this is a spaceship like as a car gets and and I don't I don't blame anyone for liking something like that I think we've about covered the Model X Oh what's cool is if I if I use the blinker here with autopilot it will actually check it and change lanes for me which is that's something unique to test let the Mercedes the self drive system drive assist whatever they call it that one doesn't do that this one this one does it and does it pretty well I would say so I'm going to bail right here we're going to end this video because I think that is pretty sufficient for the Model X it's a really really cool car I'd be interested to see what the long-term reliability is of the doors and all the weird gadgets and stuff in here but as something that makes your daily commuting life very pleasant I would say that this and the Model S are about as pleasant to place to spend your traffic filled mornings and nights you know as anything it's it's it's lovely so thank you to Toro for hooking it up no quid pro quo they just got me the car thank you to the owner Darren for for being a fan of the show and taking getting this thing nice and clean for me thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys next time bye\n"