65 vs 85. Can’t you engage the TACC at the current speed then enable autosteer with the double stalk tap?
I like the regenerative braking but there is a lower setting.
It uses painted lines to see the lanes as far as I can tell. Even on interstates, when in the right lane coming up on the end of an entrance ramp, the car will see the distance between the lines as a wider lane and fade to the right to center itself in what it sees as the wider lane. If there are no painted lines I don’t know what the car should use to determine lanes. I think it does a pretty good job on interstate highways.
That said, there’s an occasional episode of a fairly hard application of the brakes. Once was because a slow truck moved into my lanel, the car braked hard and for a long time. I think it was trying to maintain the 7 car lengths I’d set. The other braking episode was on clear road, long tree shadows crossing the road and an overpass. It slowed 5-10 MPH, fairly aggressively and unexpectedly. Both times there was no one close behind me but either time a tailgater might well have hit me. That’s a worry.
If you are in a center lane, a truck sliding into your lane and the lane on the other side is occupied, the autopilot clearly is out of options. Does it brake or accelerate out of the problem? It sees there’s a problem and gives the car back to you. What should it do? You are driving, it is just helping you on the easy bits. I’m OK with that, I don’t want someone’s beta code doing something unexpected.
You are right, it isn’t ready for “prime time players”. It is beta software. It’s better than it was but it is still beta test software. I understand that so I tend to watch it pretty closely. I use it but I don’t trust it.
You’ll find no end of shortcomings. It should see emergency vehicles and move over if it can. I can’t see potholes so doesn’t avoid them. Those big tire “gators”, I’m not sure what it does, I take over so I don’t find out. It’ll suggest moving into a passing lane within a mile of a desired exit, I don’t think that’s a good idea. When one confirms a lane change, it seems pretty good about watching for cars in that other lane then changing when there’s an opening.
You may be treating it like release software and not beta software. I don’t think you can do that yet. I enjoy using it but I realize it is a work in progress and since it is me in the test vehicle, I do try to constantly mistrust it. Overall it works pretty well, I think. I think it will work better. Not too long ago, it would ping-pong on the road. Lane changes weren’t at all smooth, that’s better. Now there’s navigate on autopilot which suggests lane changes and can do it once one has confirmed agreement with the lane change. So I see constant improvement. It isn’t done yet, though.
And that extra $2000 you spent, I spent it too. I don’t know if the price will go up again or not so there’s no way to tell if I’d have been better off waiting. The way I see it, that money isn’t being spent to buy what we already have, it is spent for what we might have later. Like you, I already had everything possible now. I have a V2 computer. Just the computer upgrade should be worth the $2K.
I don’t regret it, as I sit here I think it was a rational choice. Even if they give FSD away later, it was a rational choice with the information I have available now, so I’ll recognize that and stay satisfied with my decision. I’ve made plenty of worse decisions in the past. We can only use the information available at the time. If I could see the future, I’d be one hell of a poker player.