Hi, I have a question about auto steer. My M3 goes down the road and slightly sways back and forth in the lane. I don’t know how it looks outside the car but it seems very noticeable to me. It’s like it drifts left and then corrects right maybe every second or two. It seems to stay in the middle of the lane fine. I just wanted to know if this is how it is for others.
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Auto steer Question
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Bill Foster
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how new to the car are you? Supposedly the car calibrates the auto steer but that takes less than 50miles of *you* driving. Have you ever been in another Tesla with autopilot? Sometimes mine will ping/pong between the lines until it figures it out. The lines on the road are not perfect and it’s constantly measuring.
If you really don’t think it’s working...don’t use it and make an appointment through the app to get it checked out.
Thanks for the replies. I have about two thousand miles on the car. It does have a pinched wiring harness that has kept the right side B pillar camera out of service for most of the time. Mobile service is supposed to change that soon. Perhaps the tech can check it out then. The problem is constant, any type of road. It seems like it will wear my tires out early.
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CharleyBC
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Hmm. So if you're down one camera, the car may not be seeing the lane lines so well as it needs to. I never thought about exactly which cameras are involved in Autosteer. Not sure about the B-pillar camera.
So it stays “in the middle of the lane fine” but it “slightly sways back and forth in the lane“.
In my opinion it is normal for the driver to be able to sense slight steering corrections being made by Auto Steer. Not unlike human drivers making corrections to stay in their lane.
This tendency to sway a bit, experienced more by some people than by others, may help to explain the posts I have seen that say some people seem more prone to car sickness in their family Tesla than in other cars. It may not be the car itself (i.e., not the design or the ride or the sound, etc.), it may be the frequency or nature of these constant lane position adjustments. As for me, my 2015 AP1 Model S has sometimes seemed rock solid and other times seemed to ping-pong. I have a tendency to suspect the latest software update breaks it from time to time, but more likely it is just not as steady as I imagine. Right now I have a loaner with AP2, and it seems to ping-pong a bit more on the same roads, and also to make adjustments more rapidly than my AP1 car. Other places, it is very steady. I could see how some people might become hyper-aware of these motions if they are prone to motion sickness....Fortunately, no one has compained about feeling ill while in my car.
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I notice the car will veer slightly away from large transport trucks and then re-center to the lane once it passes the truck. Have not check this against the medians that come ghastly close on the left lane sometimes.
I experienced this as well, the car keeps swaying left and right on AP. Hope its fixed soon.
CharleyBC
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I wonder why the different experiences among different users. I have over 1000 miles on V10 (32.12.2) Autosteer, and it was nice and smooth. I did notice it cheats away from big trucks in adjacent lanes, but it did so gently.
Mine tends to wander a bit but it seems to be only when I'm in really wide lanes. It seems pretty solid on the freeway.
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Knightshade
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AP is not intended for such roads with undivided oncoming traffic, driveways and intersections, etc...
It's in the owners manual.
EU Owners manual page 119 said:
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