Someone mentioned a possible solution in the thread about this issue that I started before this thread that fewer people commented in.
[B][SIZE=3]Huskyf[/SIZE][/B] sugested lowering the top AP speed in stop and go. On the freeway AP is automatically set to full freeway speed based on the allowable speed limit, but perhaps if I set it to 5mph that would do it. I will experiment with this.
I work at home and don't drive that often but the prospect of using AP in traffic (the situation in which I would get by the far the most value from it, and also the situation I've been unable to use it for the past two years) is very exciting. I will report back.
The only snag I expect from this workaround is that limiting the speed low enough to avoid vomit-inducing jumping and then break slamming will create a lot of road rage and honking (since AP will not be able to comfortably catch up with traffic if it accelerated beyond the 5mph for a bit, like if traffic went to 10mph for a few minutes AP would still go 5mph). I guess you could constantly manually catch up, or just chill and deal with the rage. At least newer modals have acoustic glass to help with the honking a bit. I really think the best solution is to have the cameras see stop and go traffic (Like our eyes do) or even without cameras, if the computer senses a complete stop, then moving a few feet before another complete stop, and then moving a few feet, over and over, then it's obviously stop and go traffic, the blind computer that senses speed should be able to know that it's in stop and go traffic. Then when the computer knows it's stop and go traffic smoothing out acceleration and breaking. This workaround could work though, if Tesla doesn't want to do the better solution that would be able to adjust to the ideal traffic speed though.
