Pretty much. Looks like a slightly more exaggerated example of some of the one and two lane highways around here. Regardless, from the description, it pretty clearly is just referring to being able to handle tighter turns, which does appear to be the case in EAP vs AP1.
Except the E in EAP remains decidedly silent now almost 2 years since launch, and AP2 still isn’t better than AP1.
Yeah regardless of how literally we take these marketing diagrams, the claim that AP2 Autosteer handles more challenging roads compared to AP1 is pretty true these days.... Of course we'd love to see it improve even more, but that claim about AP2 seems to finally be starting to be a reality.
Can’t agree, despite marked improvement at slower than highway speeds (ironic, given the disclaimers, that AP2 would be closer in parity to AP1 on the very roads expressly disclaimed).
AP2 started off behind AP1, and is still behind AP1 in more than one area. Let’s consider just one area - lane markers:
In mid-October 2015, when AS was introduced, AP1 held a curve on I-89 along the NH-VT border at 70mph without crossing lane markers. A good thing, since my old nemesis, centrifugal force, would have given me less than a second to avoid guardrails. Shortly thereafter, it tried to exit that interstate by disregarding a dashed line, but never mind that now long-since-fixed bug. Point being that AP1 only very rarely transgressed across a lane marker then or now.
Today, in July 2018 after almost 2 years of deployment, AP2 *still* meanders across lane markers, and while it hasn’t tried to exit the freeway lately, it does still phantom brake - not just under random overpasses.
Yes, the saddest thing with AP2, apart from the soon 2 year delay, is the dec[ei]ving marketing. Really unnecessary.
One class action suit down (don’t spend that $20-$280 all in one place) and more suits to come at this rate, yeah.
If one parses Elonspeak judiciously, in six weeks or ten, we may finally have maps sufficient to enable the first FSD feature - and if the maps are good enough for that, then ideally we’ll finally have a non-silent E in EAP almost 2 years past the promise of parity for AP2 versus AP1.
I can’t quite see AP2 being as good as AP1 (for example, with regard to crossing lane markers) without better maps; also it seems that it will be awhile before we get 10cm GPS utilization... but there’s room for a pleasant surprise yet. Many opined that we wouldn’t have back up lines with the current rear camera, and one day that changed. Separately, maybe activating more cameras will help (one would think).
If history is any guide, v9.1 around October combined with some kind of October Surprise (remember 2014 and 2016 *twitch*) - over and above a strong Q3 report - should set up that short squeeze of the century that’s now a tad late as well. And finally bring AP2 up to AP1 if they also fix the speed limit db thing by using a hybrid solution as previously discussed.
