@varanasi &
@Andyw2100 I saw your post..... Autopilot is an issue but see my issue.......
So I took the delivery of a Model X a little while ago (2 weeks)
But..... no fwd collision alert, no adaptive cruise control, no steering, no autoparking. Basically a very expensive car with less technology for adaptive cruising than a nissan Leaf. In my opinion false advertisement as I demoed a car that had everything even autopilot.
When do they push these options to the cars, how do they decide to whom? any experience or timing issues?
thanks
Tesla's way of setting overly optimistic deadlines and giving unrealistic ETAs is frustrating, but at the same time, it's not really the same as a Nissan Leaf. Your Tesla actually does have the sensors on board as well as a very expensive processor that the company believes is capable of full self driving.
The ordering pages and feature descriptions did make it pretty clear that the car initially would not have many of the sensor-driven features, including automatic wipers, collision alerts, etc. Unfortunately it also included the classically misleading Tesla "December" date, which seems like it's off by a good month.
Some software updates are only given to a small randomly-selected pool for testing and data collection. Other updates are rolled out to the entire fleet, but even those arrive over the course of 5+ days with 1 peak day. This is to protect customers from update mishaps that Tesla did not foresee until the real-world fleet started applying the updates.
FWIW, the original AP HW1 was sold in much the same way but the wait was worse. Elon envisioned onramp to offramp driving, traffic light detection, etc, and the early adopters had no abilities for a while, then only adaptive cruise control for almost
a year before Autosteer was first rolled out. And the first iteration of Autosteer was pretty frightening too, diving for exits and occasionally wanting to use the opposite direction of a 2-lane highway after rounding a curve. So sorry, this isn't atypical. Today, AP1 HW is
the most advanced and best performing lane-keeping + adaptive cruise control system. I bet most of the folks that embarked on this 2-year-long journey do not regret it, and have looked past the period without its abilities. I hope you'll feel the same way about AP2 a year or whenever from now when you can take a nap while driving and AP1 looks like a child's toy.
P.S. The way Tesla is doing AP2 might disappoint customers in the short term, but it's a key reason why they are so far ahead of the game. Their ability to get realtime feedback from the fleet for software they push out every few weeks dramatically accelerates their development pace. For comparison, Audi's recently released automatic steering features are permanently limited to 35mph and require 2 cars in front of you to be visible by the camera. That'll be model year 2017's A4 and Q7 for the entire life of that car. Their "fleet learning" is "oh maybe we'll turn on more features in MY2018". With your Tesla you can expect a long lifespan of continuous feature improvements.
