Knightshade
Well-Known Member
My confusion is this.
When I double click down on the stalk - I call that engaging FSD ( which is a list of features ).
That's not, at all, what that does though.
It's just engaging autosteer (and TACC, which is always engaged when autosteer is turned on).
What autosteer does can vary based on several factors:
Type of road you're on
What options you have in settings (bunch of different ones that impact behavior)
If you have purchased the FSD package of features.
Now....while FSD is engaged...
Again- no such thing.
You don't have "FSD engaged" you have autosteer engaged.
FSD also includes autopark- but the car won't do that just from double-down-pressing the stalk for example.
.I move the steering wheel. I have now disengaged FSD
No, you disengaged autosteer.
and entered "TACC" or "Autopilot" or "regular cruise control" .
TACC.
You can't get regular cruise on your car ever.
And you're not in AP at that point either.
Turning the wheel turns off autopilot/autosteer but leaves TACC on.
Autopilot.....I'm confused as what the term "Enables your car to steer" means. ( see below ).
Basic AP (the one that now comes with the car) it means the car remains in its lane without the driver steering. It also keeps follow distance/speed maintained because TACC is always on when autosteer is on.
If you also have purchased the FSD (or EAP) package it can do some additional things in this mode- but only if you have them turned on in settings... (for example on highways it might pass other cars IF you have that turned on... or it might take an exit to follow your route IF you have that turned on).
This is how Tesla's website defines it "this morning"
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1. Autopilot Included with every purchase.
2. Full Self-Driving Capability
- Enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically for other vehicles and pedestrians within its lane.
- Navigate on Autopilot: automatic driving from highway on-ramp to off-ramp including interchanges and overtaking slower cars.
- Auto Lane Change: automatic lane changes while driving on the highway.
- Autopark: both parallel and perpendicular spaces.
- Summon: your parked car will come find you anywhere in a parking lot. Really.
- Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control: assisted stops at traffic controlled intersections.
Right- FSD is a package of specific features and capabilities.
It's not a single mode you "put the car in"
For example- Summon, autopark, and Navigate on Autopilot are all features listed in the FSD package- but all 3 require DIFFERENT driver actions to engage them, and very different conditions to use them.
There's not a single "mode" that just "does" all that.