Autosteer Lane Change

[AZAV8R]

I may be an outlier, but I'm glad that my 30 day FSD trial ended. I enabled it just to try at the beginning, but turned it off after a few uses. What would not turn off was the enhanced lane change when I was in autosteer; I wasn't all that wild about that either. At the end of the trial. all returned to normal. The most pleasant surprise is the steering wheel effort needed to disconnect autosteer is significantly less than it used to be. You don't get that jolt when turning the wheel enough to disconnect autosteer for change lanes. I don't know if it happened a bit ago or I just noticed it, but I sure like it!

Anyone else notice?

PSA - this is not a another thread about why I wasn't into FSD; it's about the steering wheel effort to disconnect autosteer.

 

[ODWms]

I notice the different disconnect behavior between my wife’s 23 Model Y LR with regular AP and my 2018 Model 3P with EAP. Mine is still the same as always (harder disconnect), and hasn’t changed through the most recent updates while hers is much smoother.

 

[Randy-12]

I noticed that it was much harder during the trial. I have not driven it since the trial ended.

I didn’t like the jolt so I’m hopping it is back to normal.

 

[pAvem3nt]

I may be an outlier, but I'm glad that my 30 day FSD trial ended. I enabled it just to try at the beginning, but turned it off after a few uses. What would not turn off was the enhanced lane change when I was in autosteer; I wasn't all that wild about that either. At the end of the trial. all returned to normal. The most pleasant surprise is the steering wheel effort needed to disconnect autosteer is significantly less than it used to be. You don't get that jolt when turning the wheel enough to disconnect autosteer for change lanes. I don't know if it happened a bit ago or I just noticed it, but I sure like it!

Anyone else notice?

PSA - this is not a another thread about why I wasn't into FSD; it's about the steering wheel effort to disconnect autosteer.

Just to confirm, the "enhanced lane change" feature will/does go away when my FSD trial ends? Because I do happen to like the feature (but did turn off the FSD).

 

[E90alex]

Just to confirm, the "enhanced lane change" feature will/does go away when my FSD trial ends? Because I do happen to like the feature (but did turn off the FSD).

Yes auto lane change is part of EAP/FSD and will go away once the trial ends unless you pay for FSD.

 

[PianoAl]

Note that the effort required is less when your directional signal is on.

 

[BigNick]

I drove on the Turnpike for the first time in several months.

Normally I will use Autosteer and I noticed there is no need to disconnect when changing lanes unlike before the start of the FSD trial. Several times with Autosteer engaged, I was able to signal and the car would change lane. Just like AP1 used to work on my 2015 P85DL.

I never activated FSD on my trial (despite emails and pop-ups advertising the feature), yet the behavior of the car changed.

I suppose this is a deliberate change? Changing the car’s behavior when the owners DOES NOT OPT-IN to the free trial is bad practice. At 85 MPH, you don’t want unexpected behavior you didn’t approve.

Yes it is a minor change. It wasn’t a fully automatic change as I signaled to initiate the lane change, but it was still unexpected behavior.

I am sure the reason for this is related to pushing owners into subscriptions to and/or purchases of FSD. Kind of like a drug dealer giving away the first “hit” for free.