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AutoPilot Buddy now officially banned in USA!
- Thread starter MelaniainLA
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These guys in the videos don't seem like they're looking for 'likes'... not sure why anyone would want to be on the news looking like an absolute idiotard.
Seems Carl Reese, the owner of Autopilot Buddy has fraudulently filed a DMCA takedown notice with Thingiverse to get my Steering Wheel Balancer removed.
My thing, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3437288 , is suspended due to this fraudulent action by Carl Reese. Carl is a liar and a fraud. My device was created 100% by me. It shares virtually no similarities with his failed Autopilot Buddy, and is in fact not even intended for the same use.
His fraudulent notice is unacceptable, he has not tried to contact me to explain his fraudulent actions.
I won't link to it here, but you can search my name on Thingiverse to see for yourself. If someone has a problem with it, filing a fraudulent DMCA takedown is not the way to handle it.
My thing, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3437288 , is suspended due to this fraudulent action by Carl Reese. Carl is a liar and a fraud. My device was created 100% by me. It shares virtually no similarities with his failed Autopilot Buddy, and is in fact not even intended for the same use.
His fraudulent notice is unacceptable, he has not tried to contact me to explain his fraudulent actions.
I won't link to it here, but you can search my name on Thingiverse to see for yourself. If someone has a problem with it, filing a fraudulent DMCA takedown is not the way to handle it.
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Very interesting! You got pictures of this bad boy assembled? Having a hard time wrapping my head on how it looks/works
Your link doesn't work anymore, so pictures aren't available. I did find one that was based off yours here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3548476
Actually he adds "to stop the Autopilot nag" to the claim in that letter. Which you haven't claimed.
Though I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish by "balancing" the steering wheel other than preventing the Autopilot nags. (Which actually isn't balancing the wheel, it is making it out of balance.)
Because he is selling a redesigned one that is "designed to hold a cell phone to the steering wheel". Which I'm sure is the only reason anyone could possibly buy it.
Because he is selling a redesigned one that is "designed to hold a cell phone to the steering wheel". Which I'm sure is the only reason anyone could possibly buy it.
Oh, Geez.
I can't see the NHTSA allowing that either as steering wheels have airbags, and airbags and cell phones don't exactly mix well.
I assume it is "only intended for use while parked". Just like the original one was "only for use off-road/on a track".
Because he is selling a redesigned one that is "designed to hold a cell phone to the steering wheel". Which I'm sure is the only reason anyone could possibly buy it.
So which is it, cell phone holder or nag disabler
?Some people add weight so that their normal grip style triggers detection, but not so much that the grip is not needed.
EVNow
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I need something like this. AP does not recognize my grip on the wheel and i’ve to move the volume knob to remove the nag.
Have you tried the different steering modes? My car would bug me often on standard but works great on sport.
EVNow
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Yes - I've tried Std, Chill & Sport. The whole idea of using the wheel to back check for attention & disengagement based on force applied is weird.
I hope they implement a visual system to keep track.
Knightshade
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AFAIK the only company that uses a visual system to track driver engagement is caddy and they have a much more advanced internal camera setup than what comes in the Model 3 to make it happen.
It's another thing where Tesla kinda planned for FSD to get here sooner instead of later, where driver engagement won't be required anyway so why put more expensive HW inside to track something that won't matter soon?
HankLloydRight
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So can you still use the wheel to disengage AP? Try torquing the wheel slightly less than that to stop the nag. It's not "grip" it's "torque."
If you're saying that you can turn the wheel all the way until AP disengages without stopping the nag, that sounds like something serious, but also, very very strange.
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