Pianomanbert
New Member
I use AP only when I want to take a drink of water or something - just for a few seconds. I loved it right up through 17.17.4 but since then it will meander off for a number of reasons, like tar lines. It's just not worth the effort to monitor what the car is doing and the road conditions to make sure it's likely to be okay and do all the stuff I have to do when driving. So I just drive it myself. And it's weird because I will occasionally get the lane departure vibration and look and sure enough it think some line in the road is the lane line. I can only assume it would have followed that "lane line."
It is unsafe to use imo even with hands on the wheel because it will so assertively steer the car in a different direction. So it isn't just that it'll go straight when it should turn, but instead at any given time it is liable to steer you out of the lane and you have to actively defend against that maneuver. It's truly just not safe.
I too had the AP act strange lately on my 2015 S. on a well marked road, it suddenly crossed over a clear solid line on the right- I took over, but I wonder how far it would have gone if I hadn't taken control?? I installed a dash cam last year for exactly this reason, but up to this point since almost a full year, it had been driving fine???