Unusually, I have received an email from Tesla telling me about the next update (40.2.2).
Leaving aside the comments about steering restrictions ...
It states that the "inattentive" period for AP is going to be reduced to FIFTEEN SECONDS !!!
I don't do a lot of motorway driving, but when I do I adopt a "one relaxed hand" approach which allows me to feel what AP is doing whilst keeping my entire focus on the road well ahead - "managing" the "big picture" of what is going on. My "soft" hand isn't continuously detected - so every five minutes or so I get an alert and have to wiggle the wheel.
I little bit annoying, but I can live with it and have found that long drives are less tiring than with old-fashioned driving.
Under this new regime the car is going to fail to detect me in most 15s intervals - perhaps almost all. So I am going to receive a distracting alert four times a minute ! I will be wiggling the wheel every quarter-mile !
I can hardly imagine how tiring/annoying this is going to be .. and it doesn't sound particularly safe.
Can anyone confirm my understanding ?
For the first time ever I am seriously considering NOT installing this software update. My car works just fine as it is !
Leaving aside the comments about steering restrictions ...
It states that the "inattentive" period for AP is going to be reduced to FIFTEEN SECONDS !!!
I don't do a lot of motorway driving, but when I do I adopt a "one relaxed hand" approach which allows me to feel what AP is doing whilst keeping my entire focus on the road well ahead - "managing" the "big picture" of what is going on. My "soft" hand isn't continuously detected - so every five minutes or so I get an alert and have to wiggle the wheel.
I little bit annoying, but I can live with it and have found that long drives are less tiring than with old-fashioned driving.
Under this new regime the car is going to fail to detect me in most 15s intervals - perhaps almost all. So I am going to receive a distracting alert four times a minute ! I will be wiggling the wheel every quarter-mile !
I can hardly imagine how tiring/annoying this is going to be .. and it doesn't sound particularly safe.
Can anyone confirm my understanding ?
For the first time ever I am seriously considering NOT installing this software update. My car works just fine as it is !