Confirmation bias! You make a great point. I've seen weirdness's I can't explain. Specifically, on drive on nav, I see it taking exits at full speed others say the car slows to exit. What I tried just the other day is once in the exit lane I manually drop the speed a tad and then I definitely see the car slowing at the exit. Using Lane-Keep I've yet to see it take an exit if the driver puts the blinker on w/i 100'. I have EAP via FSD option.
Perhaps. I think it also is trusting the software to do the same as the driver would do. I sometimes feel the same when I am a passenger as I know what I would do and when and if the current driver doesn't mirror my muscle memory, I tense up. What I've started to do which works great is in advance of that decision point I drop the speed, via mouse wheel, to where I would had I been driving and it is FAR less stressful.
TACC is an EAP feature. Straight up cruise control comes with the car but does not slow down unless a crash is immanent. I had adaptive cruise control on my 2012 Prius plugin. Not what I would have called a luxury car.I did a cross country trip from Texas to CA and also a trip from LA to San Fran and back during my 30 day free trial.
My hands were not heavy enough on the wheel so I had to grab the wheel- sometimes a little obnoxiously so. I tried auto pilot here and there and it was the same everytime. So to me, as a woman who may not be as heavy as some of you men, it was not worth it to me.
That being said, the Cruise Assist is AWESOME!!!!! You use it like regular cruise control (w/one pull down of the bar) and when you get close to traffic, it slows down. When the cars get out of the way it speeds back up to where you were. And of course if someone cuts in front of you, it immediately slows down. Btw, I'm sure you all know this and have tried it- I hope
A couple of different times, this option really helped in a big way. On the way to San Fran, traffic went from 60 or so to almost a dead stand still because someone cut in front of someone else. The cruise assist sensed it immediately and slowed down to a stop. It may even have reacted faster than I would have. AND without having to slam on brakes.
I love this feature so much and it is a life saver on roadtrips and even in traffic. I wish they would sell this feature just by itself instead of as part of the whole Auto Pilot or even better, make it standard. I have done some research and it is standard on a lot of luxury vehicles.
Still trying to decide if I want to put out the money for the whole thing for just this one feature.
TACC stands for traffic aware cruise control. It will slow you down as it approaches another car.
No... std cruise control will simply allow the driver to do a set speed regardless of someone slower in front of them. Touching brakes disengages cruise control. This is the level of cruise control likely every car comes with at this point. TACC is aka adaptive cruise control which is what you just described.
To my knowledge Model 3 doesn't come with normal (dumb) cruise control.
Jeff, in a word or two or...., would you elaborate what your stance is? I saw your reference to 'exactly the opposite of their approach'. That first video I referenced I believe was a 2015 vid. I thought it was impressive. That last one I believe is relatively new and is equally if not more impressive. Clearly they need the software to go beta that reads speed limits, stop signs and lights, as I've discovered speed limit signs can vary greatly from geo-coded speeds and, esp on exits, exit speed signs would slow a car nicely from 65 to ramp speed. I do find it unnerving to take an exit at 65. Part of that is muscle memory where the car's logic diverges from mine re: exit ramp speed. To elaborate, I've spent 45+ years designing and writing software. I haven't ever ventured into AI or machine learning so polynomial decision trees went right over my head.
Note: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control is a BETA
Ah yes, I love how they don't put it in the pdf but tell you to pull it up in-car /sarcasm
Yeah...I had adaptive cruise control in my 2012 Prius Plugin Advanced. I was just so used to it driving Mass Pike and interstates twice a day. I use it even when I leave the development I'm in.
Actually Alan, that's one of the selling points, it does look ahead such that if the car 2 cars up from you does something squirrelly the software will go defensive and slow down or change lanes etc. Pretty fricken slick. I have not had the opportunity to witness that...thank goodness.
