This thread is to collect good/bad use cases comparing AP2 firmware revision 48 to recent AP1 performance.
I upgraded from my AP1 S90D to an AP2 S100D a few months ago and since then have been through firmware versions .38, .40, .42, and now .48. As AP is the single most important feature to me I had timed my upgrade to minimize the window of crappy performance that AP2 was suffering relative to AP1 over the last year or so while still meeting certain other personal requirements. As such I've been very interested to compare how AP2 performs relative to AP1 and how that relative performance is changing over time.
There were a couple of serious deficiencies in AP1 that I found were corrected in AP2 when I first swapped over but it was also the case that AP2 had a couple of glaring deficiencies which made it unusable in a couple of important (to me) use cases that I regularly encounter. One of those deficiencies was mostly corrected as of .42 and now .48 seems to have solidified that improvement while also correcting the other one. This conclusion is kind of preliminary because I only have about 100 miles on .48 and haven't taken it on a road trip yet, but if the behavior I've seen so far holds up I expect it .48 will be the firmware revision that makes AP2 clearly better than AP1 for me in all my recommended use cases.
To be clear: I live in CA and use AP on urban freeways and on urban and rural limited access highways. My expectation of the system is that AP should work the large majority of the time in all those situations barring weird situations like inclement weather, road construction and so forth. And by 'work' I mean I can use it in the recommended fashion without being nervous about it's behavior. For me AP is a stress reducer and safety feature, and I find it to be wonderful in both of those aspects, though still not perfect.
Anyway, I think that as of .48 AP2 now works as well or better for me in all my use cases than AP1 did. The final use case that I was having problems with on AP2 (as of .42) was urban freeways with dense free flowing traffic and lots of curves. For me AP2 .42 was not doing an adequate job of holding it's lateral position in a lane on curves, occasionally even crossing lane boundaries. 48 seems to have fixed that, at least to the extent that it seems to be performing on par with AP1 as of firmware 42. I suspect 48 will still not be able to drive the entire grapevine (HW 5 crossing the San Gabriel mountains) without interventions, but then AP1 hasn't been able to do that for me yet either.
Anyone else see improvements in lane holding in 48?
What common and appropriate use cases are still failing in 48?
I upgraded from my AP1 S90D to an AP2 S100D a few months ago and since then have been through firmware versions .38, .40, .42, and now .48. As AP is the single most important feature to me I had timed my upgrade to minimize the window of crappy performance that AP2 was suffering relative to AP1 over the last year or so while still meeting certain other personal requirements. As such I've been very interested to compare how AP2 performs relative to AP1 and how that relative performance is changing over time.
There were a couple of serious deficiencies in AP1 that I found were corrected in AP2 when I first swapped over but it was also the case that AP2 had a couple of glaring deficiencies which made it unusable in a couple of important (to me) use cases that I regularly encounter. One of those deficiencies was mostly corrected as of .42 and now .48 seems to have solidified that improvement while also correcting the other one. This conclusion is kind of preliminary because I only have about 100 miles on .48 and haven't taken it on a road trip yet, but if the behavior I've seen so far holds up I expect it .48 will be the firmware revision that makes AP2 clearly better than AP1 for me in all my recommended use cases.
To be clear: I live in CA and use AP on urban freeways and on urban and rural limited access highways. My expectation of the system is that AP should work the large majority of the time in all those situations barring weird situations like inclement weather, road construction and so forth. And by 'work' I mean I can use it in the recommended fashion without being nervous about it's behavior. For me AP is a stress reducer and safety feature, and I find it to be wonderful in both of those aspects, though still not perfect.
Anyway, I think that as of .48 AP2 now works as well or better for me in all my use cases than AP1 did. The final use case that I was having problems with on AP2 (as of .42) was urban freeways with dense free flowing traffic and lots of curves. For me AP2 .42 was not doing an adequate job of holding it's lateral position in a lane on curves, occasionally even crossing lane boundaries. 48 seems to have fixed that, at least to the extent that it seems to be performing on par with AP1 as of firmware 42. I suspect 48 will still not be able to drive the entire grapevine (HW 5 crossing the San Gabriel mountains) without interventions, but then AP1 hasn't been able to do that for me yet either.
Anyone else see improvements in lane holding in 48?
What common and appropriate use cases are still failing in 48?