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No speed control, autopilot, car only sees paint line
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smatthew
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smatthew
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Yeah, it happens to me too. On some drives, the AP just refused to engage in places where it normally works 99% of the time.
The other day, it freaked out an hard disengaged on the highway whenever I would got close to cars that were throwing water spray with their tires. It wasn't even raining, just the mist from the tires was confusing the cameras. Sort of makes sense as a yet another AP failure mode.
I'm not too worried, since I've learned to not rely on AP for much of anything.
YMMV,
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I have 38K miles and 3+ years on my TM3P. If the cameras are still not calibrated, it's certainly not for the lack of opportunities ;-)
I've stopped keeping track of all the AP error conditions. And none have improved materially over the 3 years of OTA updates.
I did notice a spike in disengagements and failures to engage after Tesla stopped relying on the radar input and went 100% camera-only. I wish they didn't do that and gave me an option to selective NOT update AP firmware and revert back to radar enabled code branch. Alas, it's an all-or-nothing update logic, so it is what it is.
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P.S.: I just reread my previous message and wish I could go back and fix all the spelling errors. Couldn't figure out how to edit via an app, and now am outside of the 60 minute edit/spellcheck window.
My car still sees stuff. It does not show lights at all but when a light turns green the car chimes (green light chime). So I know the cameras see stuff. Paint lines show. No cars, signage, mailboxes - nothing else. I have parked my car went left 5 minutes and came back and worked before but stopped. I THINK every time it fixed itself was over night - no random fixes when I walk away for a few minutes or hours then come back.
smatthew
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You need to make an appointment for service. I can almost guarantee it's having lost frames from one of the cameras, which disables autopilot. Once you make the appointment they'll run the diagnostics remotely.
DopeGhoti
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I have seen this happen, but generally quite rarely (twice in the two years I have had the car). But a fortnight or so ago it happened every day for three days running; I was about to open a service request when it suddenly self-resolved on the fourth day.
Losing all of the automation really does remind one of just how much the car is doing with its driver assists. I was reminded of that scene in Back to the Future II: "You mean you have to use your hands‽"
Losing all of the automation really does remind one of just how much the car is doing with its driver assists. I was reminded of that scene in Back to the Future II: "You mean you have to use your hands‽"
DopeGhoti
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Ideally, but I'd suspect it's a software issue rather than hardware. In my case at least it's impossible to reproduce on demand and very intermittent, which makes it nigh-impossible to troubleshoot.
jrweiss98020
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