I have about 39,000 miles on my Model 3, of which I took delivery in June of 2018. My VIN is 229xx and I don't know whether I have HW2.0 or 2.5 I Have made 3 cross-country trips (western NY to San Diego) as well as trips to North Carolina, Connecticutt, and Toronto. In general, I love my car and can't see owning anything else except maybe a Model Y. One area that I'm having difficulty with is NoA.
Having put endless interstate miles on my car, often with few other vehicles around, these are my issues with NoA.
I know, by the way, that NoA is beta software, so I am not expecting perfection.
1: It's erratic on lane changes. It often wants to change from the right lane to the left lane for no obvious reason. This often occurs near interstate interchanges, as if it thinks the car should move to the fast lane in anticipation that there might be a car entering the interstate in the upcoming on-ramp. However, it is not consistent with even doing this. Sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't, again with no other vehicles around.
2: It's unpredictable when coming up to another, slower vehicle. When coming up to a semi, it often wants to change to the passing lane 150 yards prior to overtaking, even if our closure speed is only about 2 mph. Sometimes it just comes up behind the truck, slows and sets there, even when no other vehicles are within 1/4 mile.
3: It never wants to move into the passing lane when coming up behind a car, again with no other traffic around.
4: When it does move to pass a truck, it never wants to go back into the right lane, even when the passed vehicle is 1/4 mile behind me and there is no other traffic around.
5: As a result of this, I've had to disable the auto-lane change without acknowledgment.
6: With regards to item 2 above, there are times when I manually initiate a lane change (letting autopilot do the work) and the car just stays in the right lane, behind the car I want to pass, indefinitely, with the turn signal blinking. again with no other vehicle around. I have to disengage autopilot to manually pass the car.
With all this being said, I still greatly prefer interstate driving with NoA with auto-lane-change turned off to interstate driving without NoA. What I don't know is if the problems above are common problems or if it's just my car. With every OTA update I hope that the situation gets better, but it doesn't. My software version is: 2019.40.50.7
I wish Tesla would describe exactly how NoA decides to make a lane change.
Having put endless interstate miles on my car, often with few other vehicles around, these are my issues with NoA.
I know, by the way, that NoA is beta software, so I am not expecting perfection.
1: It's erratic on lane changes. It often wants to change from the right lane to the left lane for no obvious reason. This often occurs near interstate interchanges, as if it thinks the car should move to the fast lane in anticipation that there might be a car entering the interstate in the upcoming on-ramp. However, it is not consistent with even doing this. Sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't, again with no other vehicles around.
2: It's unpredictable when coming up to another, slower vehicle. When coming up to a semi, it often wants to change to the passing lane 150 yards prior to overtaking, even if our closure speed is only about 2 mph. Sometimes it just comes up behind the truck, slows and sets there, even when no other vehicles are within 1/4 mile.
3: It never wants to move into the passing lane when coming up behind a car, again with no other traffic around.
4: When it does move to pass a truck, it never wants to go back into the right lane, even when the passed vehicle is 1/4 mile behind me and there is no other traffic around.
5: As a result of this, I've had to disable the auto-lane change without acknowledgment.
6: With regards to item 2 above, there are times when I manually initiate a lane change (letting autopilot do the work) and the car just stays in the right lane, behind the car I want to pass, indefinitely, with the turn signal blinking. again with no other vehicle around. I have to disengage autopilot to manually pass the car.
With all this being said, I still greatly prefer interstate driving with NoA with auto-lane-change turned off to interstate driving without NoA. What I don't know is if the problems above are common problems or if it's just my car. With every OTA update I hope that the situation gets better, but it doesn't. My software version is: 2019.40.50.7
I wish Tesla would describe exactly how NoA decides to make a lane change.