Just took our new (non-fsd) model 3 on its first road trip. I had an hour of non congested road to try out AP.
It the first 20 minutes it worked great. I was very hopeful. Then I got 4 PBS then a couple more later on. The car slowed down from 70mph to 50 at distinctly more then normal regen but less then slamming on the brakes. Each time I checked the dash and the posted speed limit was correct. In the end I still mostly used it but there were 2 times where someone was following too close and I got nervous. I would reposition the car to a different spot. It’s useful but flawed. (As compared to any driving experience I have had in multiple other cars. All anecdotal to me. But I make many decisions based on my personal experiences).
The dashboard monitor also froze during the trip. All of it. Left side, right side, the navigation stopped, the audio I was streaming stopped, blinker sounds stopped. I wait a couple of minutes and hard reset it while driving. A normal driver (Eg my wife) is not going to happy of the dash hangs on her. That is the type of thing that’s going to make her think her car, or the model year, is defective in some fundamental way.
After the hard reset the computer had reset the wipers to auto… which I never use because they don’t work well. They still don’t work well. Within a few minutes they were going full speed trying to wipe away the mist.
Basically the same experience for AP and wipers on both cars. My other car has never had the computer hang while driving so that was worse. I would suspect the low quality of the sw update is the blame but I’m guessing based on my years of software and hardware experience.
Otherwise the driver was smooth and comfortable. It drives great for me. If only they would improve the software quality the whole thing would be great.
It the first 20 minutes it worked great. I was very hopeful. Then I got 4 PBS then a couple more later on. The car slowed down from 70mph to 50 at distinctly more then normal regen but less then slamming on the brakes. Each time I checked the dash and the posted speed limit was correct. In the end I still mostly used it but there were 2 times where someone was following too close and I got nervous. I would reposition the car to a different spot. It’s useful but flawed. (As compared to any driving experience I have had in multiple other cars. All anecdotal to me. But I make many decisions based on my personal experiences).
The dashboard monitor also froze during the trip. All of it. Left side, right side, the navigation stopped, the audio I was streaming stopped, blinker sounds stopped. I wait a couple of minutes and hard reset it while driving. A normal driver (Eg my wife) is not going to happy of the dash hangs on her. That is the type of thing that’s going to make her think her car, or the model year, is defective in some fundamental way.
After the hard reset the computer had reset the wipers to auto… which I never use because they don’t work well. They still don’t work well. Within a few minutes they were going full speed trying to wipe away the mist.
Basically the same experience for AP and wipers on both cars. My other car has never had the computer hang while driving so that was worse. I would suspect the low quality of the sw update is the blame but I’m guessing based on my years of software and hardware experience.
Otherwise the driver was smooth and comfortable. It drives great for me. If only they would improve the software quality the whole thing would be great.