that they were ABLE to use the scroll wheel to go ABOVE what was posted as MAX,
Not sure who said this. Anyway not in ASSO mode. This would only be the case in manual mode.
But when it happens, you can scroll wheel to raise the hidden ASSO limit, resulting in the car speeding up as FSD is unleashed to go after its ideal speed.
Maybe this works. I have my doubts since it doesn't appear ASSO limit changes are respected even when it increases the underlying SSO. But it's possible that when the car in ASSO mode is already traveling 50% over the detected limit and wants to go faster, that increasing the limit actually does do something.
However, have my doubts. It would be very hard to test. One way would be to travel over 50% over the limit using accelerator input, then dial up ASSO even further, and see if it allows you go stay more than 50% over the limit.
I haven't checked to see whether the car allows ASSO limit to exceed 50% over the detected limit.
the MAX will revert to a number, and that will be the ASSO-selected limit.
Just did a 3 hour drive and witnessed this issue. Most of the time I had to hit the accelerator to get the car up to the set speed limit. For some reason, it wouldn't on its own. Happened throughout the drive on non-highways.
Anyway checked this all out today again, just to be sure. There's the detected limit, DL (the number on the speed limit sign). Then there's the set speed offset (SSO) limit, which is either hidden (ASSO mode), or visible (manual).
As you'll recall:
ASSO mode SSO 50% offset above detected limit. Not displayed.
Manual mode it's whatever you've set it to. The SSO is limited with configurable behavior to 30% over the DL. But you can dial it further up or down on the fly (
THE key benefit of Manual mode over ASSO).
ASSO Mode:
Can dial up and down SSO to your heart's content and the car will not respect the SSO limit (even if you're currently above the DL and dial down the hidden ASSO limit to below current speed when it's above DL). I've dialed it all the way down to zero and it happily disregards it.
Can switch over to manual mode and you can see what SSO is, since it's displayed. But won't respect this.
Again: Won't respect this limit after switching over in manual mode, unless you further adjust it and (apparently) adjust it above your current speed. Basically have to have the SSO limit over your current speed before it starts respecting it, then you can dial it down and it will continue to respect it.
When in manual mode if you're pressing accelerator and roll scroll wheel even with a really low current SSO, it'll go immediately to above your current speed. Very rapid increase. No need to furiously scroll, just press accelerator and scroll a little.
When in manual mode scrolling the SSO from a value above your current speed, or in general when starting in manual mode, it will respect the SSO. You'll feel this with considerable regen.
In both manual and ASSO modes behavior is identical with the exception of the SSO, to the extent that matters for the particular situation.
So below that SSO, both ASSO & manual appear to behave identically and go the same speed.