Autopilot - Somefeedback

[ShinnyRedOne]

I just wanted to make a quick comment, Tesla really does need to do a better training their Sales people on the Auto pilot demo.

When I was in the sales process the Sales guy was focused on highway driving features of the Autopilot.

During the demo period( which just expired for me ) I discovered the coolest feature , if I had been given a demo of I would have bought the autopilot. Cruise control on auto pilot.

I drive this 50 mile road which has a bunch of lights...on auto pilot the car came to a stop when it detected a car in front. When the car in front moved the car automagically made it's way up to 60.
Freaking brilliant.
If the sales guy had taken me through this walkthru I would have bought the autopilot and paid for it in my loan.
I cannot write them a $5500 check now.

 

[ShinnyRedOne]

BTW I was talking about a Model 3

 

[jdcollins5]

And you bought this $50k car without reading the manual? Then you blame the sales guy!

 

[Petrlol]

I just wanted to make a quick comment, Tesla really does need to do a better training their Sales people on the Auto pilot demo.

When I was in the sales process the Sales guy was focused on highway driving features of the Autopilot.

During the demo period( which just expired for me ) I discovered the coolest feature , if I had been given a demo of I would have bought the autopilot. Cruise control on auto pilot.

I drive this 50 mile road which has a bunch of lights...on auto pilot the car came to a stop when it detected a car in front. When the car in front moved the car automagically made it's way up to 60.
Freaking brilliant.
If the sales guy had taken me through this walkthru I would have bought the autopilot and paid for it in my loan.
I cannot write them a $5500 check now.

Until it doesn't detected a car stopped at a light. Or the light turns red and autopilot goes right through it. I assume you know it's not supposed to be used on roads with lights and therefore the sales associate was correct in not telling you about how it works with lights.

 

[Dre78]

on auto pilot the car came to a stop when it detected a car in front. When the car in front moved the car automagically made it's way up to 60.

Adaptive cruise control: Tesla brands it as Traffic Aware Cruise Control (TACC).

Hopefully, non-EAP customers will get TACC some day, if even for a nominal fee. TACC functions without EAP: tap down once on the drive stalk.

I believe some, if not most, ICE have adaptive cruise control as an upgrade these days.

 

[Magnets!]

If Tesla were smart they'd offer financing for upgrades. I tried it for 30 days and passed. No regrets.

 

[ewoodrick]

I just wanted to make a quick comment, Tesla really does need to do a better training their Sales people on the Auto pilot demo.

When I was in the sales process the Sales guy was focused on highway driving features of the Autopilot.

During the demo period( which just expired for me ) I discovered the coolest feature , if I had been given a demo of I would have bought the autopilot. Cruise control on auto pilot.

I drive this 50 mile road which has a bunch of lights...on auto pilot the car came to a stop when it detected a car in front. When the car in front moved the car automagically made it's way up to 60.
Freaking brilliant.
If the sales guy had taken me through this walkthru I would have bought the autopilot and paid for it in my loan.
I cannot write them a $5500 check now.

Lots of cars do this now. My 2018 Leaf does it.

 

[Knightshade]

I believe some, if not most, ICE have adaptive cruise control as an upgrade these days.

Many do- but the feature is usually a lot crappier than Teslas version.

It's onyl very recently any decent # of them could come to a stop and resume in traffic for example (and many still don't)

I had a loaner 2018 Lexus about 6 months ago where the adaptive cruise control simply turned off under ~30 mph for example.

And even at higher speeds the closest follow distance was still so long I was constantly being cut off in traffic.