Autopilot for HW2 rolling out to all HW2 cars today!

[Joe F]

Are you happy with how it is doing at 50mph?

Not really. It's not wise to crawl at 50 MPH when everyone around you is going at least 80 MPH. That's an invitation to find out how long it takes to have major body work done on a Tesla. Or, a front row seat to watch the carnage unfold behind you.

 

[Electroman]

Not really. It's not wise to crawl at 50 MPH when everyone around you is going at least 80 MPH. That's an invitation to find out how long it takes to have major body work done on a Tesla. Or, a front row seat to watch the carnage unfold behind you.

I think you missed the point of my question.. never mind..

 

[Joe F]

I think you missed the point of my question.. never mind..

I didn't see a point. I saw a close-ended question, which I answered, and stated why I answered the way I did.

My point being, for some (most?) parts of the country, it's difficult to use autopilot in a AP2 car given the current start of the S/W. Those parts that can be used, under some ever changing and unknown conditions, can at times make the decision to turn it off an easy one.

Hopefully shadow mode is collecting viable information to feed the Mothership with constructive data, but who knows? Perhaps the Shadow knows, but without published documentation, it's not clear to me anyone knows.

 

[spiderbro]

Anyone who bought this car for auto-pilot as the main reason is going to be frustrated. Or I read some comments comparing it to luxury of MB, which again is not what Tesla is. Tesla is first and foremost an electric car that can go over 200 miles on a single charge. Any other car that does that right now?

I don't think I can buy Bolt in WA yet. Maybe now you can but like Electroman said, Tesla with its range and the super charging network makes it unique. My 75d is the only car I own and I have taken it everywhere. It's really easy to plan a road trip. Not sure how easy it would with Bolt.

Point is that most people did not buy a Tesla simply to go over 200 miles on a single charge. We bought it as a package with many features. Autopilot. Appearance. Supercharger. Maybe these are not "first and foremost" what "Tesla is," but it is still what we paid for. Otherwise we could have gotten a Bolt instead.

 

[Impulse20110]

Has anyone realized autopilot worked over 50mph? Just accelerate listen to the lovely warnings.

 

[brianman]

Has anyone realized autopilot worked over 50mph? Just accelerate listen to the lovely warnings.

My autosteer disengages with the red hands and accompanying noise. I'm on 17.5.28.

 

[gearchruncher]

It doesn't disengage until you grab the wheel. Try it sometime.

 

[HX_Guy]

It doesn't disengage until you grab the wheel. Try it sometime.

Went out of my way and tried this this morning. Sure it sort of works, but for a very short period of time. It does disengage even if you don't touch the wheel, and then penalizes you by not letting you use Autosteer for the rest of the drive.

 

[croman]

Why the hell would you use the product in a way it explicitly tells you not to? That's how people die, including innocent people. Stop being stupid.

 

[MathTek]

Used mine today. Fantastic in 50Mph roadworks, no issues at all.
A shame that you have to hold onto the wheel so often as I'm sure I saw an old Youtube video with AP1 that didn't prompt for around 20 minutes or so!
Hopefully this will change as AP2 develops and becomes more reliable, although the loan AP1 car I had also prompted after a minute or two.

2 minor instances with TACC where the car hesitated for a split second when approaching a bridge - I saw a car appear on my dash for a moment before it figured out there wasn't a car there after all.

 

[Electroman]

Those false positives will slowly fade away as these 'bridges' get white listed over a period of time.

 

[stefan.bc]

Those false positives will slowly fade away as these 'bridges' get white listed over a period of time.

Would be nice to know how it works if a car stops in front of you where the bridge is whitelisted.

 

[MP3Mike]

Would be nice to know how it works if a car stops in front of you where the bridge is whitelisted.

The radar signature wouldn't match that of the bridge so when it checked the whitelist it wouldn't find a match and it should handle it appropriately.

 

[stefan.bc]

Are you saying a car stores the radar signature of every bridge it passed under?

 

[Joe F]

Should be a different signature, and hopefully detected by the camera(s).

Oops. Already answered. Must learn not to leave a window open long before replying

 

[stefan.bc]

Seems to be explained on their blog. Looks like they will have another navigation layer.

Quote:
When the data shows that false braking events would be rare, the car will begin mild braking using radar, even if the camera doesn't notice the object ahead. As the system confidence level rises, the braking force will gradually increase to full strength when it is approximately 99.99% certain of a collision. This may not always prevent a collision entirely, but the impact speed will be dramatically reduced to the point where there are unlikely to be serious injuries to the vehicle occupants.

 

[MP3Mike]

Are you saying a car stores the radar signature of every bridge it passed under?

Yes, the signature for every whitelisted item, sign/bridge/etc, will be stored on the car and/or in the cloud. It is probably part of the "tiles" that Tesla manages on their servers and your car downloads as you are in/near them. So your car probably doesn't keep every whitelisted item itself, but gets them from the servers as necessary. (And no I don't know what size of are a "tile" covers.)

 

[_jal_]

Seems to be explained on their blog. Looks like they will have another navigation layer.

Well, that's a useful link. It would be nice if they took some time to write something like that updating the AP2 progress.

 

[idrisdev]

Received the 2017 MS with HW2 EAP...This EAP is an half baked product IT is a far cry from AP1. I definitely miss AP1. Elon, why? I cannot even compare AP1 to AP2, it will be an insult to AP1. For as much as we are paying We (TeslaHeads) deserve better.

 

[johnzhang22]

I'm still stuck on version 17.5.28, anyone else still on this version?