jimbo_hippo
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I’ve been a defender of Phantom Braking and how it’s ‘all part of the ‘plan’ for some time now, both on here and also at my girlfriend as she shrieks beside me. But even I have to concede that it’s spoiling my driving experience now. Last week, somewhere on the M6 north of Stoke, I experienced a totally unnecessary PB incident of a magnitude I’ve never experienced before. Despite having owned the car 12months/13k miles with much motorway cruising on AP, having mastered the accelerator-hover at key times and thinking I’m all over it as a beta tester for the milk float of the future, the severity of the braking was a whole new level. It was like I’d just landed a jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier and it genuinely scared the cr@p out of me so much I stopped at the next available services. If that had been my first instance of it, it would have probably left me seriously considering my investment.
Lately, lots of the car’s unique features seem to have entered a phase where you feel like you’ve strayed off a sunny footpath to find yourself in a misty peat-covered bog as the light fails and you’ve lost all sense of direction. Despite considering myself tech-minded, some simple stuff such as APs behaviour on activation just has me confused because I thought I had it’s slightly quirky attributes nailed but it’s now gone uber quirky amd I can’t remember where I came from never mind where I actually am. All that poking different speed bits on the screen used to make sense if I read up/thought about it but I'm no longer sure where I’ve come from operationally, never mind where I actually am when it comes to the simple stuff gleaned from my 40yrs of driving. It’s like that mystical period when iCloud went from a behind the scenes silent backup to trying to be Dropbox and Google Drive instead and you had no idea what might happen or why if you do something that used to make sense. When explaining something like TACC/AP operation and functions to a new owner starts to become difficult because you’re not exactly sure how it works yourself, I think it may be time to re-draw the starting point for some of the functionality.
I had to relocate my 13 tonne Motorhome a good distance a couple of weeks ago and was apprehensive that the lack of driver aids and old fashioned on/off vanilla cruise control might catch me out after so much cosseted Model 3 driving and little pandemi-motorhome use (thank you COVID-19) but in many respects, it was relaxing and refreshing to just drive the thing. When the features become a worry rather than a joy, you have to hope for the joy to be re-instated in a future update.
Lately, lots of the car’s unique features seem to have entered a phase where you feel like you’ve strayed off a sunny footpath to find yourself in a misty peat-covered bog as the light fails and you’ve lost all sense of direction. Despite considering myself tech-minded, some simple stuff such as APs behaviour on activation just has me confused because I thought I had it’s slightly quirky attributes nailed but it’s now gone uber quirky amd I can’t remember where I came from never mind where I actually am. All that poking different speed bits on the screen used to make sense if I read up/thought about it but I'm no longer sure where I’ve come from operationally, never mind where I actually am when it comes to the simple stuff gleaned from my 40yrs of driving. It’s like that mystical period when iCloud went from a behind the scenes silent backup to trying to be Dropbox and Google Drive instead and you had no idea what might happen or why if you do something that used to make sense. When explaining something like TACC/AP operation and functions to a new owner starts to become difficult because you’re not exactly sure how it works yourself, I think it may be time to re-draw the starting point for some of the functionality.
I had to relocate my 13 tonne Motorhome a good distance a couple of weeks ago and was apprehensive that the lack of driver aids and old fashioned on/off vanilla cruise control might catch me out after so much cosseted Model 3 driving and little pandemi-motorhome use (thank you COVID-19) but in many respects, it was relaxing and refreshing to just drive the thing. When the features become a worry rather than a joy, you have to hope for the joy to be re-instated in a future update.
