Dumb cruise instead of the state of the art of TACC is a very good alternative!
Not just the $35,000 Model 3. When I got my LR car in 2018 AP+TACC was a ~$2k option I thankfully opted out of so I also still have dumb cruise control. It's great, 5 years, >30k miles and absolutely no PB ever. The code is still on every car, they could easily add a menu option for it but of course never will because that would be admitting AP+TACC is not perfect, which Elon can never do.
I am sure they would like to, but given that it has been an issue >5 years they clearly can't for some reason.
That reason is the missing 4d imaging radar. Some say it would eliminate the number of phantom brakes down to zero. This is not new: Autonomous Vehicle companies have used it for years with good success.
Perhaps, perhaps not. PB might be an insurmountable problem given the sensor/hardware constraints they are working under.
Different hardware, different software teams.
Not everyone drives on an empty hot straight, deserted road full of mirages.
Not sure. When it happened last to me (last Friday), it was around 70 degrees F, on Hwy 6 in the Tillamook State Forest (see map below, somewhere in the circled area). There was a car infront of us, and one behind. Winding road following a river in the woods.
That is how it works with vision which is all over the map.Not sure. When it happened last to me (last Friday), it was around 70 degrees F, on Hwy 6 in the Tillamook State Forest (see map below, somewhere in the circled area). There was a car infront of us, and one behind. Winding road following a river in the woods.
Not my definition of empty, hot, straight and deserted. LOL.
As for the definition, it was two separate occurrences of hard braking out of nowhere, the car infront of us was at the same distance as it has been. The braking was hard enough to scare the sh** out of my passengers. After the second time, I turned of cruise.
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I believe it is because Musk doesn’t want his engineers looking at what others do, as it’s “not invented here”. This thinking worked worked in the early days, but they are WAY behind now in FSD now. I think I saw an unbiased review that put 5 or 6 car makers ahead of them. They used to be the leader.
I've always adhered to the notion that if you're responsible for innovating in a space, you shouldn't be relying on other people's innovations. So it may not be that it's "not invented here" so much as that it's "invented somewhere else". By using somebody else's results, the experience of incrementally learning about the problem space is lost. That incremental learning experience can provide a lot of material for innovation.
The theory that "if birds can flap to fly, we can invent a machine to do the same too" has not been new.
Having led product design teams for 40 years, you always bring everything to the table. Too often younger engineers don’t look at existing designs, and older engineers can be stuck on “we’ve always done it that way.” All approaches need to be brainstormed and considered. During recruiting, we looked for engineers who had a broad range of experience including much outside their speciality. Worked well and kept us the leader in our field.
I have 1200 miles on my new model Y HW4. I've had zero phantom braking. I have FSD, but for now it's crippled down to EAP.
