Motorcycles should not split lanes. Period. They should use a full lane like everybody else. Instead they waste thousands of man-hours due to the traffic jams they cause when they get themselves killed due to their own stupidity. I never move over for them when they zoom past me at 90 mph in my own lane. I don't want to do anything that might encourage their reckless behavior.
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Motorcycles should not split lanes. Period. They should use a full lane like everybody else. Instead they waste thousands of man-hours due to the traffic jams they cause when they get themselves killed due to their own stupidity. I never move over for them when they zoom past me at 90 mph in my own lane. I don't want to do anything that might encourage their reckless behavior.
MikeBur
ManualPilot
as well as seat belt, weight in seat and elastic tensioner.. You guys are well into the way of deservedly winning the Darwin Award ;-)
Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
eyespii
Member
3) I hit the turn signal when someone was next to me - my car waited until it was safe before making the lane change. I wasn't dumb enough to try it if there was a car quickly gaining on me in the next lane, but I might be during the drive home.
dirkhh
Middle-aged Member
This is indeed brilliant. I just wonder if my wife would remember this more often than switching it back to my setting.
My low tech solution? I got a reservation for a Model X for her. Assuming she likes it if (and when) we get to do a test drive (I'll give that a 50/50 chance), that will reduce the number of times I have to reach in from the open door and reset the seat
Heh heh....we should set up a poll as to whether it works. Our P85, too, has an "Exit" position. And guess who never remembers to hit it!!!!:cursing:
I think your low-tech solution...is available only to those with high-tech salaries. :biggrin:
SkinnyWeasel
Member
Not sure anyone cares at this point but P90D, delivered 9/29/15, Chicago, IL, not hooked to wifi so over LTE, received update notification via iPhone at 2PM, started upgrade at 2:15PM, competed notification 3:45PM, all times Central Time.
ddimit
Member
CA made an attempt to outlaw it. It failed. As a motorcycle rider since age 16 I have and will never lane split. I have directly seen too many near misses and have read about riders killed doing this. How they kept this law on the books is beyond me. They did make some minor modifications regarding speed but doubt those will really get enforced.
I'm sure this will be buried eventually among tons of other videos and all... but figured I'd make one anyway.
Tesla Autopilot Auto Steer Firmware v7 (2.7.56) - YouTube
Auto steer only tried to kill us once, but I'll forgive it.
Tesla Autopilot Auto Steer Firmware v7 (2.7.56) - YouTube
Auto steer only tried to kill us once, but I'll forgive it.
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Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
I'm sure this will be buried eventually among tons of other videos and all... but figured I'd make one anyway.
Tesla Autopilot Auto Steer Firmware v7 (2.7.56) - YouTube
Auto steer only tried to kill us once, but I'll forgive it.
I've done the Hickory <-> Charlotte run many times (usually to/from Boone for skiing) and its very easy to get too tired on it. AP should be very helpful (if I had it).
dirkhh
Middle-aged Member
I'm sure this is a trick question... but I'll try... YOU?
Yeah, that is a serious flaw... thankfully I am in high tech... just not high enough in high tech to make this as painless as I wish it was :-/
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Auto steer only tried to kill us once, but I'll forgive it.
I see the smiley, wk057, but to me this is indeed something I worry about (as a Tesla owner and shareholder). Even once is once too often. I dread when we see the first "Tesla Model S on autopilot caused accident" threads...
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And I was on the phone with a staffer of my representative making it crystal clear what I thought of that.
And as much as I appreciate the work of the moderators here, phone calls to your representative aren't moderated so I was able to make my thoughts about this /really/ clear without fear of landing in the snippiness thread...
Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
Time to trade up?
Well, I am a bit jealous of AP-cars, but I knew full well when I decided to buy my CPO in May what I'd be missing out on. The savings difference for me to get my CPO was still worth it. I'll probably trade-up when AP 2.0 comes out (assuming it has rear radar and can do better on city streets). I drove a couple TACC vehicles around Charlotte and TACC in the 2.4.x 6.2 releases didn't like the routes I take on my commute. So the only time I would get to use TACC would be during rush hour and on Greensboro/Winston/Boone trips (plus next week's Miami trip). I'll just watch with awe at the cool kids
Brett
Member
I'm sure this will be buried eventually among tons of other videos and all... but figured I'd make one anyway.
Awesome. I doubt this one is going to get buried - more like "go viral?"! Highly entertaining music and pacing. Thanks wk!
Auto steer only tried to kill us once, but I'll forgive it.
Yikes. There was a lot of glare during that moment - wasn't sure exactly what happened from the video.
Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
It's really scary that there is so much misunderstanding about this. I've been attempting to clear it up when and where I see it, but perhaps I haven't posted in this thread, or perhaps you two both missed it.
The current hardware does not include rear facing radar. The only way the car "sees" anything behind it is by using the ultrasonics. Those have a range of 16 feet. Tesla has published in some places that it is the driver's responsibility to make certain that the lane is clear before initiating the lane change by signalling. If there was a car within 16 feet, sure, the autopilot system would prevent the lane change. But if a car was speeding up from behind, at a much higher speed than your car was travelling, it could easily be more than 16 feet behind you when you indicate you want to change lanes, and the Tesla would not see it at all. You can imagine the consequences.
Please help spread the word on this. There is a lot of confusion on this subject, partially because of how Tesla has been describing the feature in some places, and partially because of how some of the articles have been describing it. That confusion could cost someone their life.
BertL
Active Member
Yes, immediately noticeable to me -- especially as I was sitting in my MS with the air blowing reading the release notes about that improvement!
That'd be fun.
Wasn't really glare... more like overexposure from the camera being in the car and it being bright out. Hard to see whats happening, but you can see the wheel turn a little towards the right, and then I notice the car creeping out of the lane a hair and grab the wheel right as the collision avoidance alert sounded. I was pretty close to the overpass guard rail and the trajectory would have had me scraping it without intervention. Perhaps the collision sense would have steered away, but wasn't taking that chance.
This was basically the only unexpected time it did something stupid. Most of the time when it would ask for holding the wheel or whatever it was explainable (sharp curve, bad line, no lines, etc). That one with that overpass I just didn't understand at all. I did go back and try to duplicate it... but it didn't happen the second time around. Maybe Skynet learned?
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