After getting the new 28.3 update in my M3 LR AWD and seeing the positive posts on here about the perceived improvements in NOA, I decided to try it on my way home from work today. Based on my experience, I'm not going to be using it again any time soon and if NOA is supposed to be the avant garde of FSD, I'm not convinced we're going to see true FSD for a long, long time.
IMO, there are four major deal-breakers for me:
-- As I believe I've posted before, when NOA guides the car through an exit, it jerks the car to the far right side of the exit ramp, so close to the guardrail that the distance sensors in the visualization screen turn red. Way too close to trust, even when I'm ready for it.
-- NOA does a terrible job with merging traffic. I had to intervene to keep my car from running into the side of a car merging from the right. It's as if NOA has no peripheral vision. I can see what's about to happen but the car is clueless.
-- In my experience, the car randomly changes lanes for no apparent reason and then moves back into the original lane shortly afterward (10 seconds or less). It also seems to pick a lane where traffic is about to slow down. It doesn't seem like it can see far enough down the road to realize changing lanes is a bad idea.
-- Whenever it decides it needs to move over for an exit (usually right around 1 mile from the exit), it will immediately slow down to move behind the car in that lane, even if the road is clear ahead of that car. The slowing can be significant and potentially dangerous if there are cars behind me. It would be much smoother and safer to accelerate ahead of that car and my car still has plenty of time to pass and move into the exit lane. I can accelerate and make the car wait to change lanes until I've passed the slower car, but this seems like a simple thing that the car should be able to figure out on its own.
Based on my experiences to date, I have serious doubts that V.10 is going to fix all of these issues. Until NOA works smoothly and safely, I'm not going to be using it again. Frankly, using the turn signals while on autopilot to make the car change lanes works a whole lot better at this point.
IMO, there are four major deal-breakers for me:
-- As I believe I've posted before, when NOA guides the car through an exit, it jerks the car to the far right side of the exit ramp, so close to the guardrail that the distance sensors in the visualization screen turn red. Way too close to trust, even when I'm ready for it.
-- NOA does a terrible job with merging traffic. I had to intervene to keep my car from running into the side of a car merging from the right. It's as if NOA has no peripheral vision. I can see what's about to happen but the car is clueless.
-- In my experience, the car randomly changes lanes for no apparent reason and then moves back into the original lane shortly afterward (10 seconds or less). It also seems to pick a lane where traffic is about to slow down. It doesn't seem like it can see far enough down the road to realize changing lanes is a bad idea.
-- Whenever it decides it needs to move over for an exit (usually right around 1 mile from the exit), it will immediately slow down to move behind the car in that lane, even if the road is clear ahead of that car. The slowing can be significant and potentially dangerous if there are cars behind me. It would be much smoother and safer to accelerate ahead of that car and my car still has plenty of time to pass and move into the exit lane. I can accelerate and make the car wait to change lanes until I've passed the slower car, but this seems like a simple thing that the car should be able to figure out on its own.
Based on my experiences to date, I have serious doubts that V.10 is going to fix all of these issues. Until NOA works smoothly and safely, I'm not going to be using it again. Frankly, using the turn signals while on autopilot to make the car change lanes works a whole lot better at this point.