RTFM is fine - but lets think about this one - how much warning do you really get before you get into a construction zone? quarter mile, tops. With that in mind, at 60 mph, you have 15 seconds to get out of it.
> Pretty sure in most cases there are big orange diamond signs that say construction zone ahead and will give you the number of miles ahead. Trying to remember when a construction zone popped up less than a quarter mile out. Generally they tell you when road work is done as well.
But my broader point is that the systems are not failing to safety. You cannot, as a responsible maker of a lethal machine, just say 'but it is in the manual'. If the use of this in a construction zone can reasonably result in a fatal crash, then autosteer should never be so easy to engage and should automatically disengage at slower speeds - say below 45. Any active construction zone will have slow moving traffic.
> Reread post 2. If you don't read the manual it is not Tesla's fault. Does Tesla do any more or less than other manufacturers of "lethal machines?
Again, this is one persons opinion and one person's lesson learned, but a warning buried in a user manual 193 pages long is not helpful when the product is a car. The tesla is being sold as a miracle. A fantastic futuristic toy.
> Never seen Tesla promoted as a miracle. It's a great vehicle with some really great systems. But the user has to understand the systems and what they can/cannot do and how they operate.
What I am realizing is - and this is my own fault for taking so long - it is a hunk of metal that is moving at a mile a minute for the most part among other hunks of metal moving at similar speeds. There is no value add from autosteer since I cannot relax my vigilance one iota.