Cross post from Insurance forum, because got no response there...
FCWs are frustrating as they seem often unpredictable/unwarranted but ding your Safety Score and therefore affect your insurance rate.
I've read that setting FCW to "early", which makes the audible alert happen earlier, means you may be able to brake before there would have been a FCW under the "medium" setting, and thus before Tesla registers the event as a ding on your Safety Score.
How do we know that is the case, as opposed to it simply registering more FCWs (triggered by the "early" setting) as dings on your Safety Score?
Does Tesla document this somewhere? Has anyone tested this and definitively established this?
FCWs are frustrating as they seem often unpredictable/unwarranted but ding your Safety Score and therefore affect your insurance rate.
I've read that setting FCW to "early", which makes the audible alert happen earlier, means you may be able to brake before there would have been a FCW under the "medium" setting, and thus before Tesla registers the event as a ding on your Safety Score.
How do we know that is the case, as opposed to it simply registering more FCWs (triggered by the "early" setting) as dings on your Safety Score?
Does Tesla document this somewhere? Has anyone tested this and definitively established this?