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What baffles me is that TACC, under the name adaptive cruise control, is a mature and reliable feature of other car brands going back more than five years. Why is it so hard for Tesla?
Re erring on the side of caution, perhaps the fatal event last year caused Tesla to react by becomimg too conservative. On the other hand, hard braking for no good reason can itself cause an accident, as an earlier poster related, so that approach can backfire.
I drove a 2013 Audi A6 with all available bells and whistles before getting my Tesla, and I currently have an Acura MDX. In both cases the autosteer ("lane keeping assist") is fairly primitive, but the ACC beats my pre-17.17.4 AP2 experience.
I agree, but after 2000 miles on AP2 the only "hard" braking I've seen was maybe 50% braking force at max for 1-2 seconds, reduction in speed by 10mph. If this causes an accident, it would be a minor fender bender. Slightly better than a high speed differential partial-offset collision.
I had a 2014 A6 with ACC for 40,000 miles before my AP1 Tesla…. I would generally agree but at the same time, I've had a number of frightening situations with the Audi ACC where a car came into my lane and started braking, and Audi's ACC actually slowly started speeding up. And it would actually lose track of the car in front in slowly moving traffic and suddenly start rocketing towards the car in front.
Stop and go ACC in the A6 gave me far more heart attacks than AP2, at least for Californian commute driving.
(Don't get me wrong, AP2's sudden hesitation/braking scares me too. I hope they're doing more work to fix that. Right now, AP2 has a difficult problem assigning which lane a detected car is in, especially if the car is more than ~10 car distances ahead)
What baffles me is that TACC, under the name adaptive cruise control, is a mature and reliable feature of other car brands going back more than five years. Why is it so hard for Tesla?
If it's on the internet, then it must be true? Perhaps this is going to be part of the next software update...
(Sorry in advance, just a little afternoon humor.)
I just don't get it...Really, I do not understand how these updates work. I guess I'm to use to how Apple updates their phones. I'm still on 17.11.45. Car has been connected to my home wi-fi ever since this started pushing out (all day/all night) since I'm out of town away on business, and yes it's the only thing on my guess network. When 17.11.45 came out, I got it on the 2nd day, but now nothing.....SMH.
Finally did more local autosteer today, and man was it scary. For the first time in 6 months I was disappointed with my car. The way the car takes turns is just not safe. Many times it felt like it was going to veer into oncoming traffic, went over the center line, or just felt like it was going to go straight off the road. Markings were clear, shouldn't have been an issue. Some areas were fine, but others, especially at higher speeds it was essentially unusable without an extra pair of underwear handy.
Lot of improving to go until we see L3, let alone L4 or L5. Still hopeful, but a little less so today
Got home. Made a martini. Got update. Ergo martinis cause updates. Cheers!