I don't really buy the regulation argument. The limits are:
- You can;t use remote summon from a distance unless on private land, but even basic summon isn't reliable when standing next to the car
- You need to confirm a lane change, yet half the time the suggested lane change isn't right, and either way, is that really a hardship?.
- The maximum speed/lateral g in a corner is too low, yet the car aborts mid corner and doesn't predict the turning force which to me is essential for it to set an appropriate speed. Until the car can work out the cornering g ahead of time and moderate the speed, then raising the threshold will just mean cars aborting AP at higher speeds mid corner which would be madness.
The bigger challenge is Tesla aren't training the car for UK conditions, so we get an empty lane next to cones. It is Tesla failing to localise that will hold it back rather than regulations.
And dropping the radar just feels like the launch of Teslas EAP system when it dropped mobileye in 2016. It took a massive step backwards and took arguanly 2 years to even approach parity with the previous system. They started again with 4D last year and started the limited beta trials in the US, and now they're dropping the radar blaming that but the initial launch of the software isn't better than what its replaced so how can they know its an improvement? Seems to me they are searching for a solution and not finding it.