I took my 3 out on the freeway for the first time yesterday to make a ~50 mile trip from LA County through Orange County on the 405. I spent nearly the entire trip in the carpool lane, which I figured would be an ideal place to use Autopilot. Unfortunately, the auto-steering functionality disengaged on its own at least three or four times because it became confused.
I was shocked by how poorly it performed, especially since the weather conditions were not particular adverse (partly cloudy?) and there are a TON of Teslas that drive have driven that stretch of road for years on end. I didn't even bother with it on the return trip because it was so bad on the way down. Perhaps AP would've done better had I stayed in the non-carpool lane, but all in all I'm pretty disappointed.
This experience also reinforced my assessment that FSD is nowhere near ready and made me question the value of purchasing EAP if it ever comes up for sale again. I don't trust regular AP to keep a single lane now, so I don't think I'd trust EAP to navigate interchanges. Does anyone else have similar or different experience with AP, particularly on the 405 carpool lanes through the South Bay and Orange County? It's almost hard for me to believe that the system was performing as expected.
I was shocked by how poorly it performed, especially since the weather conditions were not particular adverse (partly cloudy?) and there are a TON of Teslas that drive have driven that stretch of road for years on end. I didn't even bother with it on the return trip because it was so bad on the way down. Perhaps AP would've done better had I stayed in the non-carpool lane, but all in all I'm pretty disappointed.
This experience also reinforced my assessment that FSD is nowhere near ready and made me question the value of purchasing EAP if it ever comes up for sale again. I don't trust regular AP to keep a single lane now, so I don't think I'd trust EAP to navigate interchanges. Does anyone else have similar or different experience with AP, particularly on the 405 carpool lanes through the South Bay and Orange County? It's almost hard for me to believe that the system was performing as expected.