I’m into my 7th year of my 2nd Tesla, this one being a 3P. It’s 3 years old.
In this 7 year period in my opinion autopilot has gone from good to bad. It’s getting worse and worse as time goes by. For me, my car took a massive step backwards when Musk announced cars would navigate using vision only.
I commute the M6 regularly and this morning’s journey in light drizzle was absolutely shocking. Autopilot was unfit for purpose.
The wipers: holy crap, how bad can these things be? Gentle intermittent wiping one second followed by aggressive crashing across the screen a few seconds later even when the conditions don’t change. I spend so much time pressing the screen to change them from speed 1 to auto to try and stop the things. There is no way to turn the stupid things off while on autopilot nowadays.
Lane change: Constant nags to change lanes. I press cancel and 10 seconds later “Ping”, do I want to change lanes again. Concentration back to the screen to cancel again.
Cones: “Ping” change lanes for cones….NO!! There are cars all over the bloody motorway. I need to stay in this lane. “Ping” change lanes for cones again….Oh FFS!
Auto full beam: My god it’s almost daylight, stop turning the hi-beam on every 5-10 seconds. Again, AP on so can’t turn the setting off.
Phantom braking: No cars ahead. No cars behind. No shadows. No gantries. Screeeeech - brakes. I give in.
Traffic: Stop, start acceleration used to be so fluid, now it’s a jerky and uncomfortable.
Traffic ahead: Used to see the motorway traffic and slow down nicely, now, I suspect due to vision only, it brakes ferociously, much later. If you’re a passenger, you’ve just sh*t yourself again.
Acceleration: Slow, slow, slow, doesn't keep up with the traffic ahead anymore when pulling away from a 50 mph limit, so the cars behind you undertake and pull into the huge gap ahead of you. I suspect Vision-only is to blame again.
Blinded cameras: Still happening, driving down a dark country road and the curb-side camera is bleating that it’s blocked or blinded. No it’s not! There’s just a row of bloody bushes next the car.
Poor weather detected: Holy crap, this is a new one in the last couple of months. NOAP engaged, very light drizzle “bong, bong, bong” poor weather detected NOAP is not available, followed 1 second later by “ping, ping, ping” NOAP engaged, followed 1 second later by “bong, bong, bong” poor weather detected NOAP is not available. Repeat this constantly for 5-10 minutes. Distraction, looking at the screen again to turn NOAP off until I’m out of the drizzle.
BING: change lane - Now screaming abuse at the car.
SCREECH, forgot to turn wipers back to auto and the drizzle has stopped.
Passing a truck: Car says it’s stopping in 150 meters for traffic lights - I’m on the motorway FFS. It’s a TRUCK!
BING: lane change - changes lane, BING cones, move back.
I fly aircraft for a living and I can fly from the UK to Europe with almost zero bings, no presses on a screen every few minutes to cancel something that I cancelled 3 minutes before. Distraction free. I’m left to concentrate on the important things.
The Tesla’s mind-numbing distractions are beyond and joke. My hand should not need to be anywhere near that screen every few minutes. The distraction “pings” should not be the norm. They should be the exception.
Yes, my post is a rant and written in haste so excuse the grammar!
Over the years I’ve sent video after video to Tesla. I’ve made bugs reports and it’s getting worse not better. It not me. It’s not my car. Friends and colleagues with Tesla’s say the same things.
Despite the above, I like my car and in March when my contract is up I’ll probably punt on another 3P.
When AP works it’s a joy. I use it a lot. For me, it keeps me alert!
I’m convinced 90% of the current annoyances are due to vision-only driving. Maybe, new cars have better cameras and these problems don’t exist. But on my 3 year on 3P autopilot had taken 2 steps forward and 10 steps back.
Rant over - it’s beer- o’clock.
In this 7 year period in my opinion autopilot has gone from good to bad. It’s getting worse and worse as time goes by. For me, my car took a massive step backwards when Musk announced cars would navigate using vision only.
I commute the M6 regularly and this morning’s journey in light drizzle was absolutely shocking. Autopilot was unfit for purpose.
The wipers: holy crap, how bad can these things be? Gentle intermittent wiping one second followed by aggressive crashing across the screen a few seconds later even when the conditions don’t change. I spend so much time pressing the screen to change them from speed 1 to auto to try and stop the things. There is no way to turn the stupid things off while on autopilot nowadays.
Lane change: Constant nags to change lanes. I press cancel and 10 seconds later “Ping”, do I want to change lanes again. Concentration back to the screen to cancel again.
Cones: “Ping” change lanes for cones….NO!! There are cars all over the bloody motorway. I need to stay in this lane. “Ping” change lanes for cones again….Oh FFS!
Auto full beam: My god it’s almost daylight, stop turning the hi-beam on every 5-10 seconds. Again, AP on so can’t turn the setting off.
Phantom braking: No cars ahead. No cars behind. No shadows. No gantries. Screeeeech - brakes. I give in.
Traffic: Stop, start acceleration used to be so fluid, now it’s a jerky and uncomfortable.
Traffic ahead: Used to see the motorway traffic and slow down nicely, now, I suspect due to vision only, it brakes ferociously, much later. If you’re a passenger, you’ve just sh*t yourself again.
Acceleration: Slow, slow, slow, doesn't keep up with the traffic ahead anymore when pulling away from a 50 mph limit, so the cars behind you undertake and pull into the huge gap ahead of you. I suspect Vision-only is to blame again.
Blinded cameras: Still happening, driving down a dark country road and the curb-side camera is bleating that it’s blocked or blinded. No it’s not! There’s just a row of bloody bushes next the car.
Poor weather detected: Holy crap, this is a new one in the last couple of months. NOAP engaged, very light drizzle “bong, bong, bong” poor weather detected NOAP is not available, followed 1 second later by “ping, ping, ping” NOAP engaged, followed 1 second later by “bong, bong, bong” poor weather detected NOAP is not available. Repeat this constantly for 5-10 minutes. Distraction, looking at the screen again to turn NOAP off until I’m out of the drizzle.
BING: change lane - Now screaming abuse at the car.
SCREECH, forgot to turn wipers back to auto and the drizzle has stopped.
Passing a truck: Car says it’s stopping in 150 meters for traffic lights - I’m on the motorway FFS. It’s a TRUCK!
BING: lane change - changes lane, BING cones, move back.
I fly aircraft for a living and I can fly from the UK to Europe with almost zero bings, no presses on a screen every few minutes to cancel something that I cancelled 3 minutes before. Distraction free. I’m left to concentrate on the important things.
The Tesla’s mind-numbing distractions are beyond and joke. My hand should not need to be anywhere near that screen every few minutes. The distraction “pings” should not be the norm. They should be the exception.
Yes, my post is a rant and written in haste so excuse the grammar!
Over the years I’ve sent video after video to Tesla. I’ve made bugs reports and it’s getting worse not better. It not me. It’s not my car. Friends and colleagues with Tesla’s say the same things.
Despite the above, I like my car and in March when my contract is up I’ll probably punt on another 3P.
When AP works it’s a joy. I use it a lot. For me, it keeps me alert!
I’m convinced 90% of the current annoyances are due to vision-only driving. Maybe, new cars have better cameras and these problems don’t exist. But on my 3 year on 3P autopilot had taken 2 steps forward and 10 steps back.
Rant over - it’s beer- o’clock.
