Recent content by alanjackson

Rule of thumb I came up with is that the car should lose about 5 miles of range per day if not charging. Anyone have real word experience?

Yes, I fully agree that autopilot still has a lot of room for improvement. The jerkiness, the sudden swerves for no apparent reason during a lane change, harder than necessary braking, even the slow start from a stoplight. The worst experience I had was on a divided highway with frequent U-turn...

Yes, I think the biggest issue is that it doesn't see several cars ahead, and also doesn't classify nearby drivers (crazy, asleep, drunk, etc), in order to anticipate behavior. But that is a hard problem. People don't get there without several years of experience.

I have been pretty disappointed in the wipers. In a hard rain (and in Houston we get *hard* rains) the wipers move much too slowly in auto mode. Auto is next to useless because of that. I would propose an "OCD" mode for auto wipers that would run them 50% faster than the current rate.