Welcome Kurt. Cross-posting is bad... don't do that... but here's some help and my opinion regardless of whether you spent or are considering spending $6k for Enhanced Autopilot (often referred to as EAP) (BLUF (bottom line up front) - in my opinion (IMO), you wasted your money or are about to waste your money
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Enhanced autopilot has:
- Navigate on Autopilot: Actively guides your vehicle from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating interchanges, automatically engaging the turn signal and taking the correct exit.
- Auto Lane Change: Assists in moving to an adjacent lane on the highway when Autosteer is engaged.
Autopark: Helps automatically parallel or perpendicular park your vehicle, with a single touch.Summon: Moves your vehicle in and out of a tight space using the mobile app or key.Smart Summon: Your vehicle will navigate more complex environments and parking spaces, maneuvering around objects as necessary to come find you in a parking lot.
Notice the strikethrough. This is because for Model Y's after May 2023'ish, they don't have Ultra Sonic Sensors (aka 'USS' as a post above referred to them). Tesla has temporarily disabled this functionality for these Model Ys as a result given that we only have cameras on our vehicles (aka Tesla Vision) and the software (hardware?) isn't good enough for this to work. I'll add that even with the latest updates, it's still not good enough for close-quarters parking based on what the updated visualizations show on the main car display. I personally believe it'll only be good enough for close-quarters with a camera in the bumper (oh, wait..
the latest update might be indicating this is coming?)
So, with Enhanced Autopilot, you can navigate and auto-lane change. IMO, auto-lane change is annoying so I often choose the option to minimize these when I'm driving (there's an option)...and while the 'navigate on autopilot' feature is great if you're on unfamiliar highways, especially for interchanges and such, for your regular commute or similar, it's not adding a lot of value. As such, $6k is too much for what it does now, IMO. We're all on the edge of our seats for Autopilot v12 which could come as soon as this month and is trained based on real-world driver experience vs a bunch of lines of code. I believe this will significantly improve things but it'll likely take time.
My 3-month trial (which I received with a referral when I purchased my '23 Model YP 3 months ago) is about to expire. I won't be purchasing 'enhanced' for $6k and certainly not the less-than-full-self driving for another $6k as the first isn't a good deal and the second isn't quite there. Make no mistake, Elon will get FSD all the way there but I believe he'll need not just the v12 software, but hardware, for some situations, and likely a few years.
Hopefully this is helpful. If you already purchased the enhanced autopilot for $6k, and you agree with my opinion, I'd ask for a refund - it'd be the right thing for them to do given the confusion at purchase time regarding autopark, summon and smartsummon.
