supratachophobia
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brb....It's not a valid handle on the Teslamotorsclub.com forum....Kind of surprising someone didn't try to register with it!
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brb....It's not a valid handle on the Teslamotorsclub.com forum....Kind of surprising someone didn't try to register with it!
2). To go with the flow, I now have to not use autopilot which I feel greatly increases my chances of accidents.
I hope this isn't true!
1). Many 'divided' roads that have speed limits of 45 or 50 MPH have the speed limit enforced. This causes me to be an impediment to traffic flow and certinally does not enhance the Tesla brand.
4-5 hours has been reported in the comments section here to be the time required for camera calibration.The software update was pushed to my Tesla this morning. Tried to engage auto steer on the freeway during traffic jam in LA and it said camera calibrating unable to initiate. Continued on for another 30 minutes and tried again but got the same message. Wondering how long it will take to become operational.
4-5 hours has been reported in the comments section here to be the time required for camera calibration.
@HankLloydRight question re: ev-fw.com
My previous car (P85D) has about 25 entries for firmware updates on EV-FW.com. I have added my current car. Should I delete the former car (and thus lose all the entries which I assume would be eliminated from the overall stats at that point)? If I don't delete it, what happens if someone else gets it (via CPO or otherwise) - will they then be able to enter the VIN and update FW records if it still exists under my name/account?
Thanks,
Mike
Interesting point. But that goes back to confidence level. If the hardware couldn't cope with cross-traffic pulling out in front at any speed, why allow it to be enabled as such? In other words, the car would fail to brake if you were going 45mph and a semi pulled across, as well as 85mph and a semi pulled across. Tesla is every bit the kind of company (so is Apple) that would change software behavior to inconvenience the consumer so as to discouraged use. We have tons of evidence to that in the form of the AP nags when confidence level is already high on divided highways, locked onto both lane markers and a vehicle in front. Tesla wants our hands on the wheel so that when AP fails, we can take over and so they can claim they are not at fault since they warned us (rightfully so with this level of AP).Are the divided roads you are talking about also limited access roads (meaning on-ramps and off ramps)? If not, the system is doing what our current understanding of the release for AP1 hardware changed and appears to have been done because of the possibility of conflicting traffic with a significant difference in relative speed and thus closure rate.
Obviously none of us knows exactly what was done due to the lack of release notes, but Tesla has consistently said that AP software is really for use on divided, limited access roads. The fact it wasn't restricting what speed you could set it to on roads that didn't meet that category appears to have been something they have deliberately addressed in the latest release either due to system limitations or guidance from somewhere (be it the government, Elon, Tesla's legal counsel or someone else).
Would you feel safer if you could exceed the speed limit on these roads while using autopilot (thus keeping up with the flow of traffic) knowing that the system can't respond to a car pulling out in front of you or crossing across the road in time to prevent a collision? Your statement #3 about the chance of accidents might then change....
Are the divided roads you are talking about also limited access roads (meaning on-ramps and off ramps)? If not, the system is doing what our current understanding of the release for AP1 hardware changed and appears to have been done because of the possibility of conflicting traffic with a significant difference in relative speed and thus closure rate.
Obviously none of us knows exactly what was done due to the lack of release notes, but Tesla has consistently said that AP software is really for use on divided, limited access roads. The fact it wasn't restricting what speed you could set it to on roads that didn't meet that category appears to have been something they have deliberately addressed in the latest release either due to system limitations or guidance from somewhere (be it the government, Elon, Tesla's legal counsel or someone else).
Would you feel safer if you could exceed the speed limit on these roads while using autopilot (thus keeping up with the flow of traffic) knowing that the system can't respond to a car pulling out in front of you or crossing across the road in time to prevent a collision? Your statement #3 about the chance of accidents might then change....
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The divided roads are not freeways, let's call them 3-4 lane major arteries with speed limits of 45-55 mph. There is limited access primarily at major intersections.
Going the speed limit is a hazard and rightfully angers many of the other drivers who are trying to go with the not]Emil traffic flow of 5 mph over the posted limit. Certinally this is not good PR for Tesla.
Reading the last few days' postings reminds me that the real problem is the absurdity of the way we set and use speed limits, at least in the U.S.. A law that's intended to be broken as a matter of course. Awesome. As a bonus, the "everyone knows the real speed limit is" speed varies by locale.
Of course, Tesla is in no position to singlehandedly fix this problem. But I can see how it puts them between a rock and a hard place.