Adding basic fixed-speed CC in the car
in addition to ACC/TACC seems like the obvious immediate solution. That should be a permanent feature, no matter how much better TACC gets. I actually didn't realize until I bought my Model 3 that it *doesn't* have a way to enable basic CC, I assumed that every car with ACC (not just Teslas) would still have a way to use basic CC.
I've used TACC in Model S loaners over the years, AP1 and AP2, and it always worked well enough that I never went looking for basic CC, I just assumed (wrongly) it was there. I never took those loaners on the kind of straight, empty two-lane country roads that sound worst for VO TACC, but I would have naturally gone looking for basic CC if I had, it never occurred to me to use ACC/TACC on two lane roads...but it also never occurred to me that basic CC would be absent.
If Tesla insists that basic CC isn't needed then they damn well better make (VO) TACC work reliably on all roads. I would be fine with just using basic CC for two-lane / non-divided roads though!
@jama999 The wording in that petition sounds almost like it's asking for basic CC to temporarily
replace VO TACC. I wouldn't want that at all, most of my CC use is on divded highways and while VO TACC is definitely less smooth than most any radar-based ACC/TACC I've used, it's still usable and worthwhile over basic CC.
Btw my radarless S
NEVER phantom brakes