I am new to this form, and would like to share my perspective. My good friend has a model S with autopilot 1.0. All he ever does is talk about how wonderful it was in terms of navigating rush-hour traffic. I live in Southern California, and my wife and I thought this would be a great option for us. For my wife, autosteer wasn’t important but lane departure warning, emergency braking, and other features including summon and autopark were deal makers for both of us.
My wife and I went to the San Diego fashion valley store in June 2016, and were given a test drive of a Model X, including ALL of the AP 1.0 features – summon, autosteer, and autopark included. Also, we did the autopilot traffic aware cruise control and other great stuff on the highway. This experience was the determining factor for my wife and I to acquire the vehicle. Additionally all the great safety features that were present on that test drive including lane change warning an automatic braking made it a no-brainer for us.
The order was finalized July 2016. In the meantime, shortly after the vehicle order was placed P100D was offered, and Tesla offered us the chance to upgrade. What they did NOT tell us was that we would also get the AP 2.0 “upgrade.” As vehicle delivery approached, we were told that we had the fabulous new AP 2.0 sensors, but again, they failed to tell us NONE of it was usable or working on the car.
On Dec 23 we took delivery as required in the contract. If we did not, we would have forfeited deposit as liquidated damages. We found out on Dec 22 that AP 2.0 was NOT working at all. So when we came in to get the car, we were then told Elon says it should be out by the end of the week, and they showed us his tweet.
I will say that quality assurance on the car was dubious as the charge port door kept opening on its own during delivery and a red triangle showed up on the dash stating “REPLACE CHARGE PORT DOOR.” Not a confidence builder. But they promised yet again that the AP 2.0 features, in their entirety would active by the end of the week and offered another 1 hour session to go over them.
Well, here we are nearly three weeks later – NO FEATURES OF AP 2.0 whatsoever. I will say that this is a BAIT AND SWITCH in the classic definition – see code of federal regulations chapter 16, part 238, paragraph 4. Also in California it is illegal under B&P 17500. I don’t want this car anymore and I suspect hundreds of “early adopters” feel the same way.
To boot, I had an error code while loading the kids and trying to back out the driveway. The distracting yellow triangle was telling me the passenger door failed to latch, while a red triangle in the center cluster was alarming about a backseat not being latched (5 seater). In the meantime, the horrible GUI with a camera displaying the rear with tire lines but no outline of the vehicle was in the center display, while in the instrument cluster the radar obstruction detection information was displayed. You guessed it, this resulted in me hitting my sister in laws parked rental vehicle. The body shop wants 15K to fix a 2 inch dent. None of this would have happened if the front door latch wasn't defective (needed replacement), the GUI would for reversing was as good as 20K POS KIA SUV from 4 years ago (display the stupid foot print of the vehicle???? is that so hard?), and yes summon and auto park were active.
I did get a great xmas show, but that stuff is completely useless, perhaps the software engineers should be working on writing useful software - like making the car work the way it was promised and sold, rather than stupid easter eggs.
I don't know about others, but I want out, NOW. Elon sold us Steve Jobs NEXT computer with absolutely NO SOFTWARE. The car is useless and THEY DON’T have software for it. I did not sign up to be an alpha tester either. I am so disappointed! The guy lives in a reality distortion field.
My wife and I went to the San Diego fashion valley store in June 2016, and were given a test drive of a Model X, including ALL of the AP 1.0 features – summon, autosteer, and autopark included. Also, we did the autopilot traffic aware cruise control and other great stuff on the highway. This experience was the determining factor for my wife and I to acquire the vehicle. Additionally all the great safety features that were present on that test drive including lane change warning an automatic braking made it a no-brainer for us.
The order was finalized July 2016. In the meantime, shortly after the vehicle order was placed P100D was offered, and Tesla offered us the chance to upgrade. What they did NOT tell us was that we would also get the AP 2.0 “upgrade.” As vehicle delivery approached, we were told that we had the fabulous new AP 2.0 sensors, but again, they failed to tell us NONE of it was usable or working on the car.
On Dec 23 we took delivery as required in the contract. If we did not, we would have forfeited deposit as liquidated damages. We found out on Dec 22 that AP 2.0 was NOT working at all. So when we came in to get the car, we were then told Elon says it should be out by the end of the week, and they showed us his tweet.
I will say that quality assurance on the car was dubious as the charge port door kept opening on its own during delivery and a red triangle showed up on the dash stating “REPLACE CHARGE PORT DOOR.” Not a confidence builder. But they promised yet again that the AP 2.0 features, in their entirety would active by the end of the week and offered another 1 hour session to go over them.
Well, here we are nearly three weeks later – NO FEATURES OF AP 2.0 whatsoever. I will say that this is a BAIT AND SWITCH in the classic definition – see code of federal regulations chapter 16, part 238, paragraph 4. Also in California it is illegal under B&P 17500. I don’t want this car anymore and I suspect hundreds of “early adopters” feel the same way.
To boot, I had an error code while loading the kids and trying to back out the driveway. The distracting yellow triangle was telling me the passenger door failed to latch, while a red triangle in the center cluster was alarming about a backseat not being latched (5 seater). In the meantime, the horrible GUI with a camera displaying the rear with tire lines but no outline of the vehicle was in the center display, while in the instrument cluster the radar obstruction detection information was displayed. You guessed it, this resulted in me hitting my sister in laws parked rental vehicle. The body shop wants 15K to fix a 2 inch dent. None of this would have happened if the front door latch wasn't defective (needed replacement), the GUI would for reversing was as good as 20K POS KIA SUV from 4 years ago (display the stupid foot print of the vehicle???? is that so hard?), and yes summon and auto park were active.
I did get a great xmas show, but that stuff is completely useless, perhaps the software engineers should be working on writing useful software - like making the car work the way it was promised and sold, rather than stupid easter eggs.
I don't know about others, but I want out, NOW. Elon sold us Steve Jobs NEXT computer with absolutely NO SOFTWARE. The car is useless and THEY DON’T have software for it. I did not sign up to be an alpha tester either. I am so disappointed! The guy lives in a reality distortion field.
