Just a few comments:
This I think is really important advice with any TACC/ACC system. Don't camp/hover your foot over ANY pedal. That doesn't buy you much reaction time but opens yourself to a world of errors (wrong pedal, slightly resting on a pedal which inhibits braking or accidentally disengages TACC at the exact wrong moment, etc etc etc).
Just rest your foot comfortably on the ground near the brake. You can go from that position to braking in a split second. Try it in a parking lot if you don't believe me!
On AP1 this triggers if any of your side whiskers turned red while stopped, or if a pedestrian is walking nearby. Not sure what the AP2 conditions are.
On AP1, no, and probably the answer is no for AP2 right now too. Very few cars on the market have active secondary collision avoidance, and most just passively brace you for an impact (e.g. move your seats a bit, tension your belt) if they sense a collision. Tesla with AP1 has no rear-ending awareness and won't do anything for you.
I'd imagine this will eventually arrive as a safety feature for HW2 cars, but right now, no. Your AP software protects your self-interest, which is to protect you from rear-ending someone, but what they do behind you is their problem.
AP1 does not really handle that. Motorcycles do tend to activate the side whiskers and that leads to your car slightly offsetting itself in the lane to make room for a motorcycle, but this happens very slowly. Certainly not fast enough for when a motorcycle zips past you. As trivia: I was talking with a coworker who rides a bike, and he offhandedly remarked that in heavy traffic he just rides really close to the rear bumper corner of a Tesla and it gradually moves over. So umm…. maybe astute bikers have already figured out how to force AP to play nicely and lane split? I certainly don't rely on it. I use AP/TACC as an opportunity to pay more attention behind me looking for bikers.
I hope that HW2 can improve on this. It certainly has cameras pointed at the right places to lane split properly in advance, but again, on the list of future improvements
The 8.0 release notes (for AP1) did say "better cut-in detection via turn markers", but I haven't seen that work out in the real world. Instead, I did notice that AP1 on 8.0 is much much better about rapidly putting on the brakes when a nearby car enters your lane (either to cut you off or accidentally).
I am guessing this behavior will get better for HW2 as lane awareness gets better and HW2 starts showing cars in adjacent lanes.
This I think is really important advice with any TACC/ACC system. Don't camp/hover your foot over ANY pedal. That doesn't buy you much reaction time but opens yourself to a world of errors (wrong pedal, slightly resting on a pedal which inhibits braking or accidentally disengages TACC at the exact wrong moment, etc etc etc).
Just rest your foot comfortably on the ground near the brake. You can go from that position to braking in a split second. Try it in a parking lot if you don't believe me!
- Also noticed a new behavior, occasionally a message pops-up asking you to press the accelerator to get you going from a full stop. ( perhaps checking if you have fallen asleep with your hands on the wheel?)
On AP1 this triggers if any of your side whiskers turned red while stopped, or if a pedestrian is walking nearby. Not sure what the AP2 conditions are.
On AP1, no, and probably the answer is no for AP2 right now too. Very few cars on the market have active secondary collision avoidance, and most just passively brace you for an impact (e.g. move your seats a bit, tension your belt) if they sense a collision. Tesla with AP1 has no rear-ending awareness and won't do anything for you.
I'd imagine this will eventually arrive as a safety feature for HW2 cars, but right now, no. Your AP software protects your self-interest, which is to protect you from rear-ending someone, but what they do behind you is their problem.
AP1 does not really handle that. Motorcycles do tend to activate the side whiskers and that leads to your car slightly offsetting itself in the lane to make room for a motorcycle, but this happens very slowly. Certainly not fast enough for when a motorcycle zips past you. As trivia: I was talking with a coworker who rides a bike, and he offhandedly remarked that in heavy traffic he just rides really close to the rear bumper corner of a Tesla and it gradually moves over. So umm…. maybe astute bikers have already figured out how to force AP to play nicely and lane split? I certainly don't rely on it. I use AP/TACC as an opportunity to pay more attention behind me looking for bikers.
I hope that HW2 can improve on this. It certainly has cameras pointed at the right places to lane split properly in advance, but again, on the list of future improvements
The 8.0 release notes (for AP1) did say "better cut-in detection via turn markers", but I haven't seen that work out in the real world. Instead, I did notice that AP1 on 8.0 is much much better about rapidly putting on the brakes when a nearby car enters your lane (either to cut you off or accidentally).
I am guessing this behavior will get better for HW2 as lane awareness gets better and HW2 starts showing cars in adjacent lanes.
