Model 3 collision in autopilot

[iMoe]

What @BEPA400 said in #40 can't be repeated enough. Autosteer and TACC are workload reduction tools not attention reduction tools.

When I engage these tools I pretend I'm training Bo, my chimpanzee, how to drive. Keeps me alert

 

[BEPA400]

Yeah absolutely. I use AP in the city as a curiosity.. I’m always watching the road and I’m pretty good now at guessing ahead of time where it will fail and I’ll have to take over. From what I have seen, in only one month so far, the ‘edge cases’ where it can’t handle things properly or at all happen very regularly. So regularly that I wouldn’t call them edge cases!

 

[MexiCanuck]

Yeah absolutely. I use AP in the city as a curiosity..

If I correctly remember the consent screen for autosteer it specifies that it should not be used except where there is some kind of barrier between the two directions of traffic.

 

[jching]

I recall a couple of software versions ago, AP got way too close to the cars in front. I set the follow distance to be 2 car distance and this was stop and go traffic. The car started to accelerate when traffic cleared for a brief moment before more traffic ahead. The car just kept going and stopped maybe 8 inches from the car ahead.... After that software version i think AP is definitely more cautious now...