DougWantsALeaf said:
Ok, I know I am asking for some potentially firey responses here, but what do the Tesla drivers here think of consuner reports review of full selfdriving? Does this reflect your experience? I only know of propilot and its limited use cases.
https://youtu.be/IQOf_F6hibk
I watched the video. It’s fair.
I can’t speak to the summons feature as we are almost never in a private lot and have only used for entertainment purposes.
Auto parking seems fine although I almost always park so far away that there is never anyone around us, so very little use.
Dumb summons is occasionally useful for us when we have projects in the garage and it’s easier to just back the car out from outside. Used it maybe half dozen times. Works well.
We drive 90 percent of our miles on Autopilot just for the added layer of safety. The car sees things I don’t occasionally, and vice versa as well. It’s a level 2 system so needs to be monitored. It however has never missed a stop sign or stop light and has on one occasion stopped at a stop sign I didn’t see. (A temporary stop sign in a campground).
We both use the lane change feature 100 percent of the time. Just another level of safety.
The actual navigate on autopilot (where it takes your exits for you etc) only works on interstate/freeway type roads which are rare where we are so I have limited experience with that. It did navigate me out of Vancouver once...which was cool because I don’t know those interchanges well.
Auto steer works...ok. With the following notations.
- it takes some corners too fast (pucker factor)
- it takes some corners too slow (piss off people behind me)
- occasional phantom braking is a thing...including a Boston pizza sign it thinks is a stop sign
- it occasionally stops at certain railway crossings and crosswalks even when the lights are not flashing.
-although the latest software update is supposed to fix this speed limits are not accurately tracked and one must pay attention. We don’t have the latest software yet but it will probably come down in the next week.
-One is supposed to disable auto steer around bikes. We do but occasionally forget. When you forget it gets super cautious around bikes on secondary highways and will brake fairly hard to reduce speed when going past them. It will not veer over the centre line to give them more space (because I think that would be illegal). I actually do veer over the centre line (if there is no traffic coming). If there is traffic coming I also slow down just like it does, so maybe it’s not so bad after all. But then again, as per instructions, you are supposed to disengage Autopilot when passing bikes.
On main highways (double lane each direction etc) one can go an hour at a time and never intervene. Very pleasant. On twisty turny two lane secondary highways one can expect multiple interventions in an hour. I still prefer it on over off on these types of roads. Lane discipline, distance keeping, avoiding speeding tickets etc.
It has improved since we got the car, and the car has a lot more features which just keep coming every 3 or 4 weeks. Don’t like your Tesla? Wait three weeks. It’ll change.
Gotta run. No time to check spelling.
.
On edit. Had to put this up. We had to take a picture of this stupid sign when the car saw it and we didn't. We own a private lot in this campground and have for about 17 years. We drive it once a week as we cut the grass on our lot etc. Complacency I suppose but we never saw this stupid sign. At least Jarvis (name of wifes car) was on the ball. We were trying to figure out why the car was stopping, then saw the sign. Kind of funny at the time. We had it on TACC (adaptive cruise) not autosteer but those features are still active on TACC. Yes the sign is on a pole welded to a wheel. Stupid sign (in my best Homer simpson voice)