Fernand
Active Member
First thing to learn with any autopilot system is knowing when not to use it, and when to temporarily disengage it.
About a year ago I would treat AP like a gear shift, sometimes stay in AP for 20 minutes, sometimes go in and out several times in a 5 minute period. There are situations where it helps and others where it's best tapped off. Aside from extreme curves with too high a speed limit, there were other tricky spots like being in the right lane approaching an unwanted exit.
I've never had the car "slam on the brakes", though I've seen it slow down in strong regen, maybe 2 or 3 times in the last 12 months. It's not sure of what it's seeing, better to slow down. I expect that when the software fully takes advantage of the faster hardware, this will go away.
But I'm not sleeping, I ride WITH the system, it's no big deal to re-accelerate. It never stopped me from taking advantage of AP. People who expect to leave AP on all the time and just stand back aren't being realistic. It's as if you refused to take your glasses off at times and instead railed about the "flawed" optics and the incompetent optometrists. Or throwing out your smartphone because Bluetooth loses connectivity. A better use of time is to figure out how to get the best use out of the technology.
As of 2019.40.50.7 the system is so much improved that I can keep it in NOA on highways pretty much all the time, and in AP on and off on boulevards, and to me, anyway, it's a huge net benefit.
But I've also changed how I look at the system, from observing it to driving with it. If you're having AP issues, think about it. Hard to explain, but it's like a novice riding a horse getting bounced in the saddle (ouch), versus leaning into the motion, working with the beast. For one thing feeling the car, how the AP is driving, and being at ease in position to smoothly continue onward if you were to tap out of AP. Correcting or overriding occasional problems then becomes an easy and natural part of the flow.
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About a year ago I would treat AP like a gear shift, sometimes stay in AP for 20 minutes, sometimes go in and out several times in a 5 minute period. There are situations where it helps and others where it's best tapped off. Aside from extreme curves with too high a speed limit, there were other tricky spots like being in the right lane approaching an unwanted exit.
I've never had the car "slam on the brakes", though I've seen it slow down in strong regen, maybe 2 or 3 times in the last 12 months. It's not sure of what it's seeing, better to slow down. I expect that when the software fully takes advantage of the faster hardware, this will go away.
But I'm not sleeping, I ride WITH the system, it's no big deal to re-accelerate. It never stopped me from taking advantage of AP. People who expect to leave AP on all the time and just stand back aren't being realistic. It's as if you refused to take your glasses off at times and instead railed about the "flawed" optics and the incompetent optometrists. Or throwing out your smartphone because Bluetooth loses connectivity. A better use of time is to figure out how to get the best use out of the technology.
As of 2019.40.50.7 the system is so much improved that I can keep it in NOA on highways pretty much all the time, and in AP on and off on boulevards, and to me, anyway, it's a huge net benefit.
But I've also changed how I look at the system, from observing it to driving with it. If you're having AP issues, think about it. Hard to explain, but it's like a novice riding a horse getting bounced in the saddle (ouch), versus leaning into the motion, working with the beast. For one thing feeling the car, how the AP is driving, and being at ease in position to smoothly continue onward if you were to tap out of AP. Correcting or overriding occasional problems then becomes an easy and natural part of the flow.
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