Recent content by Timcat

My M3P now gives this message along with its panic alarm almost every time I drive it. It rarely actually applies any steering input and on no occasion is any correction required! It even went off in Tesco's carpark at <10mph last night! I wouldn't mind if you could switch the damn thing off...

The last car I had with adaptive cruise control was a BMW 540i, which had both radar and cameras looking forward, sideways and rearwards. It also had BMW's equivalent to Autopilot. The adaptive cruise was essentially flawless, so I don't think that the use of cameras should be an issue per se...

It isn't rare in my M3P (i.e., stamping on the brakes at 70mph and suddenly losing about 20mph). It happens at least once in every extended motorway drive in which I use TACC or Autopilot. It happened so frequently in heavy traffic that I simply disengage both in these conditions.

Does the i3 rely on cameras alone? I ask because my last two BMWs had adaptive cruise and the system was essentially flawless, unlike the TACC in my M3.

I had thought that late '21 M3 cars were all Tesla Vision, but it seems that I was wrong and that this does only apply to the US. So thanks all for pointing this out. I did check my car and it is possible to reduce the following distance down to 1, which I understand is how to check whether...

Current UK M3 cars (including my M3P) have Tesla Vision with no radar and regular phantom braking.

Good! No accidents yet and it's not safe by any stretch of the imagination! I have had some very close calls thanks to this "feature".

Like you, cameras etc. were not a thing when I passed my test. However, if the cameras, reversing sensors and so on fitted to a car are not reliable and fail to show or indicate hazards, then they are pointless and their presence and consequential use increases rather than reduces the risk of...

In the case of auto wipers, auto dip head lights and adaptive cruise control, all three are useful if they work well and, therefore, should be included in my view. Maybe you have never had a car in which they work properly, but I have and they are all useful. For example, properly controlled...

They use Michelin and Pirelli tyres, glass from an outside manufacturer (can't remember which), batteries from Panasonic etc. I bet they don't manufacture the cameras they use either. So, the fact that the sensors required to control auto lights and wipers come from outside suppliers shouldn't...

Agreed, but why not use the tried and tested sensors with a single operating system? I can't see why this should be too difficult for a company like Tesla, given the well known natures of the sensors concerned.

I don't think Tesla has any excuse for not having effective automatic headlights and wipers; the technology to do both is tried, tested and available off the shelf at a low price. The same applies to TACC or adaptive cruse control (using well established radar based systems would eliminate...

I have a M3P so don't know how the new UI looks on other cars with portrait orientated screens. I only took delivery of my car at the end of November, so didn't have much time with V10. V11 did not download to my car with the first "holiday" update owing to a glitch in the update procedure for...

The attempts to take the wrong exit are quite gentle and easily dealt with. My previous car (BMW 5 series) had a system similar to enhanced auto pilot and would sometimes do the same thing. The BMW system would also panic in difficult conditions and simply disengage, or just refuse to engage...

I have experienced exactly the same issues and quite often, both on dual carriageway A roads and motorways. Autopilot doesn't like rain and road spray in typically British grey wether conditions. My M3P tries to take exits off the A303 (if you don't know it, it's like a 2 lane M way) in the...