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I've never regretted moving from my leaf except the heater. It was awesome and efficient...
Haven’t had to use the heater yet but going from the leaf to the tesla was like going from an economy ice to the leaf. The tesla is amazing.
My traffic heavy commute is sooooo much nicer and safer now with the TACC.
I do miss the around view but it’s not a deal breaker, just a disappointment.
For parallel or perpendicular parking the Tesla can do it for you (assuming it sees a single open space with cars in front and behind it (or to sides for perpendicular). It'll park pretty much perfectly for you (albeit slowly).
Backing up is fine with the great rear (wide-angle) camera, but it stinks not seeing where curbs end. The parking sensors are good for telling you if you're going to hit the car in the next spot or the column in the parking garage. So far it's mostly just not seeing how early I can start turning when backing away with a curb to one side.
My driveway needs me to turn in hard, with other cars parked on the road outside. So first avoid other cars, then the walls by the entrance, then get the turning angle right and slot in between the house and wall.
Oh, and you need to go back as far as possible, limited by a lamp post, leaving enough room on one side to get to the charger. And of course the charge port on the Tesla is in just the wrong place.
No way auto park will cope with it.
Okay, it's an extreme example, but once you get used to the cameras you really don't want to go back, especially in a big car.
Oh, and you need to go back as far as possible, limited by a lamp post, leaving enough room on one side to get to the charger. And of course the charge port on the Tesla is in just the wrong place.
No way auto park will cope with it.
Okay, it's an extreme example, but once you get used to the cameras you really don't want to go back, especially in a big car.
I still think the rotatable/zoomable 3D 360 view on the new Audi A8 is so cool... and these 360 cameras will also be able to auto-park using lines only, no adjacent cars...
Just because you've never had a complaint doesn't mean Tesla's system is good. I particularly despise not having a front camera. Lack of a display in the rear of the cabin for the rear park sensors is also amateur hour.
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Sure about that AR? Every pic I've seen it's parked like ^that^ and you posted something from the manual that only mentioned ultrasonicsI still think the rotatable/zoomable 3D 360 view on the new Audi A8 is so cool... and these 360 cameras will also be able to auto-park using lines only, no adjacent cars...
Oh come on, you are better than making an issue out of how it is parked. Obviously the picture (from the brochure) is just showing an impressive scenery so that's why it is parked that way... The picture from the garage is probably just protecting the demo unit from bangs - it is a big car...
As I said when posting from the brochure, the current Audi A8 brochure does not include the Pilots. What I refere to is the Audi Parking Pilot, not parking assist. I am not fully clear on what the launch order is for that feature, some press says it comes from the first model year on, but I am not sure if the brochure has it - if it has I didn't see it (haven't checked fully).
It is the Audi AI Parking Pilot that does the parking by lines (see my post #30 for a caveat/correction, I don't know to what extent). In any case I do believe the hardware is in the cars already (the zFAS is there, after all), but I do not know if it is enabled for the very first model year.
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I did not find any Pilots in the first year Audi A8 brochure. Also, a correction - I found this good and up-to-date-seeming page of all the assits and pilots Audi offers:
It does seem Audi Parking Pilot still uses ultrasonics to find the parking spots, if this is accurate. A video does shows it using its 360 degree cameras as part of the sensors, but if this is accurate, it seems this first generation pilot does still require adjacent cars.
It does seem Audi Parking Pilot still uses ultrasonics to find the parking spots, if this is accurate. A video does shows it using its 360 degree cameras as part of the sensors, but if this is accurate, it seems this first generation pilot does still require adjacent cars.
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My wife does all the driving as I am in a wheelchair. Our Volvo XC90 has the 360 view and blind spot monitor. We went for a test drive last weekend and my wife felt very uncomfortable without these two features. We were ready to place an order but without these two important features we didn't.
Why doesn't Tesla pick up on these two points and let us know what they will do and when.
They may not want to do it, because it doesn't look very competitive as it stands. Maybe they are waiting to ugprade the hardware suite with a nose cam or something like that.
As things stand, it is a black-white-red 360 image for anything but the rear, that can not see anything in the nose and front corner bumper level due to camera placement limitations.
A partial, B&W 360 view may not be very desireable PR-wise when the competition is doing this:
Still better than nothing. Having got used to 360 degree cameras in the Leaf it's really hard to downgrade to a car without them.
Agreed, it would still be useful from the front mirrors back, that they could do in B&W.
Old thread, but having recently moved from a Leaf to a model 3, the thing I miss most is the around view monitor, which I used every single time I parked the Leaf. So nice to be perfectly lined up in a spot, and know my tires were perfectly straight. The M3 is superior in every other way, except for this missing feature.
I dearly miss the around-view monitor in my model S as well. I've gotten 'used' to not having it, but man it stinks. I loved that feature in my Leaf.
The view wouldn't be the same. The Tesla cameras aim out and not down like the Leaf cameras - they also don't have the full 360 coverage. They could certainly show 'something' but it wouldn't be anything like what the Bolt and Leaf have now.
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