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This is getting particularly bad in Australia...
Ever since I did my truck license I started pointing my mirrors just far enough down to see the lane markings I've just passed, to position the car in the lane more accurately. And when I did the mandatory training before getting my motorcycle license, they told me exactly how to operate in curves. When I look down at the mirrors on autopilot and I see lane lines, on a curve to the left, the car hugs the right side of the lane throughout the entire curve. This is the exact opposite of acceptable driving behaviour. It even keeps driving over the botts dots in the process.
Appropriate behaviour is to start on the right side (centre), then sharply cross to the left (side), and then exit the curve either in the centre (for a car, though on the right on a motorbike, to avoid the centre slick).
At first I assumed that Tesla had coded Autopilot to hug the right of a curve to the left, which is close enough to natural driving behaviour for a LHD country (and grossly inappropriate in a RHD country).
But if you've been having this issue in the USA, on your side of the road, assuming they haven't fixed it yet, now I think it's just inappropriate code.
Alternatively, if you guys got it fixed in the last year, maybe they've done it by overcompensating to the right, causing problems for us.
Ever since I did my truck license I started pointing my mirrors just far enough down to see the lane markings I've just passed, to position the car in the lane more accurately. And when I did the mandatory training before getting my motorcycle license, they told me exactly how to operate in curves. When I look down at the mirrors on autopilot and I see lane lines, on a curve to the left, the car hugs the right side of the lane throughout the entire curve. This is the exact opposite of acceptable driving behaviour. It even keeps driving over the botts dots in the process.
Appropriate behaviour is to start on the right side (centre), then sharply cross to the left (side), and then exit the curve either in the centre (for a car, though on the right on a motorbike, to avoid the centre slick).
At first I assumed that Tesla had coded Autopilot to hug the right of a curve to the left, which is close enough to natural driving behaviour for a LHD country (and grossly inappropriate in a RHD country).
But if you've been having this issue in the USA, on your side of the road, assuming they haven't fixed it yet, now I think it's just inappropriate code.
Alternatively, if you guys got it fixed in the last year, maybe they've done it by overcompensating to the right, causing problems for us.