This seems as good a thread as any to start some excitement
I've had AP for several years now. First in my S, and now in my 3. I use it pretty much every day, and pretty much every day I think about defeating this nag. I find it annoying, but also ironically dangerous. So I start looking to see if anyone's come up with something more clever than the orange-in-a-sock. A quick scan through threads like these, its obvious there's a lot of pushback from people calling it unsafe, irresponsible, "defeating a safety feature", etc.
To me that's a strange take on it. The nags are lawyer-driven, not designer driven and not even safety driven. They are 100% "cover my ass". It makes absolutely no sense (unless I'm missing something) to have a "safety feature" that says, "psst... hey, hey you... look over here! Yeah, down here... take your eyes off the road a sec so you can read this message down here. NO SERIOUSLY, LOOK HERE.". It isn't as bad as my wife's Bolt, which has a paragraph and a confirmation button on the screen that comes on after you start moving (sigh), but I really do find it takes my eyes off the road, which is exactly what I shouldn't be doing.
Basically, I look at it like this: if I'm going to use Autopilot "carelessly", then I'm going to do that whether or not a little message tells me I'm doing it wrong every few seconds. If I'm a careful driver who uses AP to sweat the small stuff while I keep my attention laser focused on the more complex parts of driving, then I shouldn't have something come up trying to distract me.
Am I wrong? Would defeating that nag really be so bad? I read someone equating it to defeating the seatbelt nag, but in that case defeating it is to avoid using a true safety feature (the seatbelt). In this case, if one feels that AP is safe then we should use it nag-free. If it is not safe, then the complaint should be with AP use, nag or no nag.
Who's with me? lol. Come on, don't everyone put up your hands all at once.