drawfour
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If you already plan on getting it, why wouldn't you get it at delivery and save $1000?I have AP1 on my S and I will get EAP for my 3, just not at delivery
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If you already plan on getting it, why wouldn't you get it at delivery and save $1000?I have AP1 on my S and I will get EAP for my 3, just not at delivery
If you already plan on getting it, why wouldn't you get it at delivery and save $1000?
I find it easier to monitor the surroundings while using Autopilot. The nag has got to be too much though.No EAP for me. If I have to monitor the car, the road, the traffic anyway, I might as well just drive the damned thing.
Robin
I find it easier to monitor the surroundings while using Autopilot. The nag has got to be too much though.
Said the man that used it for a day. There are many more driving protections active with EAP.Well, now I've tried it. I wanted to wait to give a full two week review, but unfortunately it only worked for a day and disappeared thereafter. I'll start by saying that TACC is indeed very cool. I might contest that it brakes a little more dramatically than a human driver, and a few times it seemed quite confused how fast it should be going, but overall it was very good and I could easily see myself using it. The remaining features did not seem to have any practical application for me, at least in their current iteration. Most bewildering by far was autosteer. Beyond the novelty of how cool a car that steers itself is, I couldn't figure out why anyone would use it. It took substantially more effort and concentration to focus on exerting just the right about of torque on the wheel for it not to incessantly nag me than I have ever put into actually steering the car myself. I had to correct it at most exits as well. The autopark provides some entertainment value in just how audacious some of the places it suggests to park are. Yet in my office's well marked parking garage, none of the ample number of spots seemed to be deemed suitable. I actually had kept open the possibility of getting autopilot when the federal tax credit came in, but I am no longer interested.
My wife says Autopilot drives more smoothly than me and she actually feels safer when it is in use! I find it works almost perfect on major, well marked roads and am amazed how much more relaxed I feel at the end of a long journey. For me it is one of the major reasons for buying a Tesla and I am surprised that people buy these wonderful cars without.
Safety features do not require EAP. Non-EAP cars have been shown to swerve away from adjacent lane-crossing vehicles and brake defensively (AEB).Said the man that used it for a day. There are many more driving protections active with EAP.
Autosteer tried to kill us. It mistook a driveway on a bend for continuing roadway and steered toward it at full speed. My wife screamed and we narrowly averted a crash.
I would like the adaptive cruise control alone, for a reasonable price.
Driveway on a bend ? Is this in a residential neighborhood that you were driving with AP? Did you have lines on both sides?Autosteer tried to kill us. It mistook a driveway on a bend for continuing roadway and steered toward it at full speed. My wife screamed and we narrowly averted a crash.
I would like the adaptive cruise control alone, for a reasonable price.
Indeed. If you are using autopilot on a road with a driveway, YOU ARE USING IT INCORRECTLY. It's meant for freeway driving only. That's not to say that it won't function off the freeway, but if you use it in that scenario, you better be damn sure you're highly vigilant because it WILL behave erratically at some point.Driveway on a bend ? Is this in a residential neighborhood that you were driving with AP? Did you have lines on both sides?
I am guessing a lot of people simply have no clue as to how AP works and when they should use it.
All these seem to me like, ‘I pressed the accelerator and the car went like a rocket. It tried to kill me’
Well, I'll be happy to provide you with a full two week thumbs down review if Tesla ever decides to reinstate my trial, though I somehow doubt you'll find that more satisfactory. I suppose one possibility is that there actually was a software issue with the EAP, which has been causing some annoying problems for my car ever since. The autosteer was really, really weird to me. I felt that I had to torque the wheel just short of disengaging the autosteer every few seconds, and I can't imagine that everyone has just learned to live with that.Said the man that used it for a day. There are many more driving protections active with EAP.
It would be nice if Tesla can sell TACC for $2k or less ... I'll buy it. Does Tesla listen to the forum?