Garlan Garner
Banned
The car was showing me a 35mph speed limit sign and driving at 39mph.
That's difficult to believe.
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The car was showing me a 35mph speed limit sign and driving at 39mph.
That's difficult to believe.
I couldn't agree with you more. Never assume you have clear sailing thru any intersection. Several times in my driving career I have noticed cars failing to stop at lights and/or stop signs and was able to avoid an accident.Everyone should approach a light with a bit of caution to be sure it is safe. You can't always assume its safe going through a green light. A good driver needs to be paying attention to cross traffic to be sure it is stopped or coming to a stop. Emergency vehichles, a drunk driver, or speeding drivers don't always stop. A safe driver usually does this with his peripheral vision and reacts accordingly. Slowimg a bit at the light gives you more time to react to the unexpected, whether you have FSD or not.
Based on my two days of testing, after tap confirming a green light, another tap is requested and required if the light subsequently turns yellow. That second tap is overridden if light subsequently turns red. Then the car must come to a full stop before a tap allows you to proceed.
this is the gist of the behavior. I say that because I found it surprisingly difficult to tease out the exact nature of the green yellow red sequence after initially tapping during the green phase. One has to approach a lot of lights to observe all of the scenario tree.
while I’m writing, I confirm that it also stops at T intersections even if there is no stop sign.
You obviously have been following Tesla’s advice to refrain from using AP on streets until 2020.12.6. I am a “lawbreaker” and have used AP on streets always. Taking away the +5 over the speed limit makes the new feature almost unusable for my needs.I thought Autopilot has been driving at the posted speed limits on local streets before 12.6.
Is there anything different about 12.6 that Tesla have changed?
Inability to go 5 over speed limit means I won’t use the stoplights feature again until it advances from the Granny Mode. Almost all of the streets near me are 45 mph zones and I felt like an obstruction today while trying out the update. Even 50 is marginal.
Of course I can —and do - accelerate past 50 at times but at least much of the traffic flows at 50 or so. At 45 I am just a target looking to get hit.
This might warrant more testing. The camera is tracking the line where the intersection begins, and it knows how fast it is going, it could be determining whether it has enough time to safely stop when determining what to do with a yellow.
In my experience it does not yet stop at T intersections without a stop sign or light. Did you experience something different?
I have enjoyed the new update. It is a learning experience for both me and the car. The only problem I had, was when I approached a red light, and the car was in full auto drive, and I needed to get over into the right hand lane to make a right turn. I pressed the brake and turned the wheel disengaging auto pilot. Put the turn indicator on and as the car slowed up, I took my foot off the brake, and the car shot forward at the set speed of 40mph ---which was the posted speed of the road I had been traveling on in auto pilot. Just for a moment It caught me off guard, and had someone been in front of me, I might have had an accident. Next time I will come to a full stop and hopefully will not have this surprise again.
Inability to go 5 over speed limit means I won’t use the stoplights feature again until it advances from the Granny Mode. Almost all of the streets near me are 45 mph zones and I felt like an obstruction today while trying out the update. Even 50 is marginal.
Of course I can —and do - accelerate past 50 at times but at least much of the traffic flows at 50 or so. At 45 I am just a target looking to get hit.
I don’t suppose anyone has any insight as to when this update will make it to Canadians.?
Which FSD?
Approved by whom?
Many folks are testing various systems in various places.
Waymo at least (might be others I don't know) is operating- to end users (though limited audience) robotaxis- but they're in one specific suburb of Arizona, and they have a remote controller who has help the car out if it runs into something it doesn't understand- so it's a level 4 system at best.
You don't have to have Auto Steer enabled for the car to react to traffic controls.
Everyone seems to be missing this.
I'm in Arizona and waymo is all over the place (before covid), I've personally seen waymo vehicles about 25 miles apart from each other. Keep in mind that phoenix covers one of the nations most populous counties, the city of Phoenix covers 500 square miles, the metro population is just over 5 million people and it's now the 10th largest metro in the US and 5th largest city. To see waymo operating around the heart of downtown (I used to own a 105 room hotel downtown near a major hospital complex) was always a delight, I've driven behind the vehicles, I think they're very close to being ready for much wider release. But just wanted to politely correct that they are not just in one suburb...it is the signups that are restricted to certain areas.
The driverless cars are only allowed to do pickups and dropoffs within the 50-square-mile geofence
same here. The Main Street by my house runs through the city at 45mph. Everyone drives 55mph to 60mph. A few will go faster than that. I never liked AP doing 50mph because it holds up traffic after a few stop lights. Now locked at 45mph I will just make others think we’re the new Prius.
btw, my 1st test last night was pulled over by the police. He was following me and pulled me over when AP got confused when the lane spilts with a bike lane. The car jerked so gave him cause to pull me over. He thought I was drunk because I was doing the speed limit and slowing down for green lights. No tickets. Just told me to be careful.
I did another test today and decided this feature is not for me until it improves. I will keep this Off until it handles stop lights on it’s own without braking for green lights.