your love for tesla has completely clouded your judgment.
And your hatred for Tesla has clouded yours. You state opinion as if it were fact. Fortunately, many people who frequent this forum are quite knowledgeable about Tesla and can separate the two. However, some people come to this message board seeking honest, unbiased opinions. Unfortunately, it would seem that they cannot get that from you. You clearly have an agenda that prevents you from providing unbiased information and opinions. Perhaps you feel that the more people that are angry with Tesla, the more successful a class action law suit would be. Or perhaps the more the stock price would be affected. Personally, I don't care about the class action suit or any lawsuit for that matter and I don't care about the stock price. I don't own any. Wish I did, but alas I don't. Certainly not going to buy any at this price, but that is a topic for another thread. And I don't want my money back from Tesla. Quite honestly, I love the car. Greatest car I have ever owned. It has faults and yes I can talk about them rationally, if asked.
The OP had an honest and valid question about AP1 and AP2 and the differences between the 2. Your post(s) did not provide any useful information to answer to that question. Rather you attacked the post of someone who tried to do so without any specific information that added to the question/thread. You did exactly what you accused the responder of doing.
There are some excellent reviews of AP1 and AP2 on this message board that provide honest opinions and comments on where the system works and where it fails. Calling the system a "sham" or "pre-alpha" or a "fraud" adds nothing to the thread and does not answer the original question. And quite frankly, in its current iteration is simply not true.
If you truly dislike the car as much as it would appear that you do and believe that GM will surpass Tesla in 2017, sell your car and pre-order a GM vehicle with super cruise. Life is too short to waste time. If there is a better product out there, buy it. You may very well be correct. Of course, it also might just be your hatred for Tesla that is clouding your judgement.
My experience differs greatly from yours. I find AP2 to work extremely well on highways. I also find TACC to work very well. They are exactly what I paid for. AP2 on local roads is clearly a work in progress and weeks if not a couple months behind AP1, at least in my opinion.
In response to the OP, AP2 appears to have far superior hardware to AP1 and will presumably far surpass AP1 as far as function and features. However, since the system started from scratch it had quite a bit of ground to make up to catch a very good AP1 system. In my opinion, AP2 is currently getting close to AP1 at highway speeds and with TACC, but AP1 is still better. In my, opinion, the new hardware and features will surpass AP1 in the next couple of months. But that is admittedly speculative on my part. On local roads, AP1 is still far superior to AP2 and it will likely take a couple months just for AP2 to approach AP1 on local roads. I rarely use AP2 on local roads for a variety of reasons.
Because of the progress shown on AP2 to date and particularly with the latest update, I would suggest purchasing an AP2 equipped car at this point if one is able. But that is my opinion and does not make it so.
Drive safe. Be civil.
