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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...

No, nothing has changed, I still have the old interface, with full functionality as before the failed update.

The download seems to have failed on my M3P. It started 3 days ago and stopped within an hour or so when it reached 40% on the app (the progress bar in the car had reached a similar point). There it stayed until today when I rebooted the screen in the car. The car now claims to no longer be...

I have to disagree with you. To date, Teslas have sold to a small group of early adopters who like to try out new technology and are willing to put up with its teething problems and quirks. However, the company is now moving into the mass market, where users do not want to wake up in the...

Still stuck and I'm still happy with this!

The 2021.44.25.2 update has been frozen at 40% on my car (M3P) for over 24 hours. Reading the threads on the new UI, I think I'll leave it like this as 2021.44.6 seems just fine to me and I am not interested in light shows and other teenage games!

Mine have gone from useless to really very good with 2021.44.6.!

True that! :) This is one of the great things about my M3, amongst the many others, that make it a better overall car than the BMW, which has now gone! Mine is now downloading 2021.44.25.2, having only just installed 2021.44.6 last night!

I'm not sure that I agree. Jobs had realised that, if he could make it work, a system for controlling a smart phone using fingers on the screen would provide a far more versatile interface. With auto wipe and auto high beam, the user derives no advantage from the underlying technology unless...

I think the point being made here is that, on a car that gets so much right, it's a shame that it falls down in areas where it is easy to get things right and where others have been getting them right for some time. In other words, these are things that work just fine using existing technology...

I have only had my M3P for three weeks and have to agree with all of these who say that both the auto high beams and auto wipers are simply not fit for purpose. They are far worse than any of the similar systems that I have had in competitors' vehicles over the last fifteen years or so. For...

Indeed!

You may be right, but to me it's all poorly developed software and a little disappointing.

Understood, sorry for the hijack!

Whilst I am having a moan, the auto wipers and auto dip headlights are useless compared to the BMW equivalents, which work just fine. Part of the same issue, poorly developed software.

Another new user here. My app has switched from miles to Km. Fortunately the car still shows miles and MPH (I suspect that if it didn't it would instantly be illegal in the UK, as the constructionand use regulations, I believe, require a speedometer reading in miles)! My initial impressions...