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My Model Y *repeatedly* gets tricked into activating the "slow for emergency lights" band-aid that Tesla threw in the software a few updates ago...despite there being zero emergency lights of any kind.
In my case, there's a periodic series of equally-spaced blue lights along the Metro tracks in the center of I-66 in Northern Virginia -- with some occasional red ones thrown in, as well as red brake lights from other vehicles. The Model Y seems to interpret the periodic flashes of red and blue lights as a police or fire vehicle and constantly slows down and interrupts cruise control on my rides at night. It happens at least five or six times over a space of 10 miles. Really irritating.
Ironically, the software usually fails to detect *actual* police lights along the same route.
Has anybody else been observing funky behavior like this with the "detect emergency lights" feature-bug?
I'd love to report this kind of stuff to Tesla, but there's no real way to get in touch with the company unless I file a "service appointment" request in the mobile app, wasting everybody's time because there's no appointment that will fix Tesla's flawed software. Their phone numbers all go in circles to inevitably filled-up or unactivated voicemail boxes, email addresses are all dead or outdated, and they disbanded their communications and PR offices long ago...lol. One's only hope is to randomly tweet things to Elon Musk and hope you're the one-in-a-million tweet he takes note of and responds to.
Aside: It's funny that automotive reporters are constantly having to say things like "We couldn't get comment from Tesla on [insert topic] because they have no communications, media, or PR offices."
- Bill
My Model Y *repeatedly* gets tricked into activating the "slow for emergency lights" band-aid that Tesla threw in the software a few updates ago...despite there being zero emergency lights of any kind.
In my case, there's a periodic series of equally-spaced blue lights along the Metro tracks in the center of I-66 in Northern Virginia -- with some occasional red ones thrown in, as well as red brake lights from other vehicles. The Model Y seems to interpret the periodic flashes of red and blue lights as a police or fire vehicle and constantly slows down and interrupts cruise control on my rides at night. It happens at least five or six times over a space of 10 miles. Really irritating.
Ironically, the software usually fails to detect *actual* police lights along the same route.
Has anybody else been observing funky behavior like this with the "detect emergency lights" feature-bug?
I'd love to report this kind of stuff to Tesla, but there's no real way to get in touch with the company unless I file a "service appointment" request in the mobile app, wasting everybody's time because there's no appointment that will fix Tesla's flawed software. Their phone numbers all go in circles to inevitably filled-up or unactivated voicemail boxes, email addresses are all dead or outdated, and they disbanded their communications and PR offices long ago...lol. One's only hope is to randomly tweet things to Elon Musk and hope you're the one-in-a-million tweet he takes note of and responds to.
Aside: It's funny that automotive reporters are constantly having to say things like "We couldn't get comment from Tesla on [insert topic] because they have no communications, media, or PR offices."
- Bill
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