Car transporter confuses TACC

[MacPaul]

A clip from a user on Twitter shows his M3 failing to stop while queuing in traffic behind a car transporter:

Alan Zavari on Twitter

The loading of the transporter seems to have confused the camera. You would hope the ultrasonics would detect the rear of the trailer though. The driver says he was queuing for some time behind it without a problem.

Luckily this was in slow moving traffic but a reminder that you should always be ready to take over.

It will be interesting to hear Tesla’s take on this incident.

 

[Joelly]

Title should read -
“driver not paying attention, crashes into car transporter”

 

[MacPaul]

Title should read -
“driver not paying attention, crashes into car transporter”

Yes of course that goes without saying.

 

[Epico]

"But, if I had intervened, this issue would have never been identified."

Uuh...really...so they are saying that they saw the car was going to hit the transporter and let it happen so Tesla can have a video of it...wtf...I will not be doing that with mine

 

[jdeacon]

I remember my first drive back from collecting my Model 3 at Heathrow. Each car transporter (and there were quite a few for some reason) caused great confusion to the AP visualization. It kept flipping from car to lorry to something else and back around again. I was new to everything and aren't/wasn't sure what the something else was; a bus maybe.

The car was on version 9 software. Either version 10 cured this or I haven't passed any more transporters.

 

[cwerdna]

There's already an existing thread on this.
Autopilot fail

This thread should probably be closed or content merged over to the above.

 

[Tony Hoyle]

I've had it happen with a lorry when queueing. I hit the brake, called autopilot a rude name and got on with my life. It's a driver assist.. the moment it stops assisting, take over.