So going around a bend slightly aggressively on a road i travel frequently my MS will *sugar* itself, flash a warning “corrective steering” applied when I’m literally in the middle of the lane perfecting going along. What happens when there’s no physical connection and the car shits itself?
Slowly but surely Tesla is removing features that have been standard on cars for decades, for good reason. No driver display, no stalks, no physical controls, no normal steering apparatus, no door handles. Do any of these things enhance my driving experience?
The driver assistance features have become stressful to use lately.
Turn on auto-steer and immediately get beeped at? Check. Get beeped at again 30 seconds later to hold the wheel even though I am? Check. Have the thing disengage because it tried to steer me into the exit and I didn’t let it? Check. Then without autosteer while merging from one highway to another, have the car freak out and say I’m departing the roadway and it’s applying corrective steering because all of the lines are faded even though I’m 8 feet from the edge? Yeah…
I don’t want features that I have to babysit or that punish me for their own failures or technical flaws. I want the car to look out for me and to reduce my cognitive burden, and to otherwise stay silent. Sometimes the car accomplishes this goal; other times, it’s just good at raising the blood pressure.