Anyone tested AP performance on this firmware yet? Any better at detecting vehicles parked on Traffic while u approach it hot at 55+mph?
I got this update and have given it a through workout already and I have come off version .36 for comparison.
On an urban winding road 50km/h that I test it every release to see if it can cope with extreme circumstances it has gotten less confident, aborting multiple times despite very clear lane markings. I video this stretch just as a worst case scenario test on every release. See:
On urban roads in a straight line it has gotten significantly more confident without veering off when coming to intersections, staying the line consistently across the intersections. There appears to be some tweaking of the congestion behaviour as well with slightly smoother braking when coming to cars that have slowed down. The take off is slightly faster but still glacially slow if the car in front moves off quickly. It is much more prone to being cautious though meaning just about any nearby car that looks like it might be in the lane ahead makes the car slow down which is very annoying.
On a big open freeway I have noticed a dramatic improvement on curves - the most noticeable is that instead of there being multiple continuous corrections to the steering wheel during a curve, it is far less nervous with a lot less corrections; still more than a human but it is a lot less annoying when holding onto the steering wheel and probably would affect passengers less (I haven't had any to confirm this.) The lane change is the smoothest I've experienced, with a confident sweep into the next lane without steering corrections even when done on curves. I tried a few lane changes when the gap between cars was tight but one I would have done myself previously and it confidently snuck into the gap and slowed down safely.
I have not tried it on a single lane open highway with tighter curves.
The steering wheel behaviour has also changed. It is now very easy to override the autosteer. As I hold the steering wheel firmly when in urban areas with traffic because of low trust in AP, it disengages very easily when I hold what I feel is a safe line without feeling the extra resistance I normally feel where you have to forcefully overrride it.
So a few negatives - the urban curve failures have increased and the phantom slow downs for cars that aren't really in front, but a few more positives. Considering the manual clearly stipulates that EAP should only be used on highways then I think this one is a clear improvement in the right direction.
