Random AP/FSD Question - Overseas Driving

[Grymbok]

Not something I'm planning to do any time soon but just curious - if you take a RHD drive Tesla through the Channel Tunnel, can you engage AP safely on continental roads? Including FSD features (i.e. lane changes) if you have them?

I've never driven outside the UK myself and was just thinking that if I had trust in the car to help it would probably feel safer to do so for the first time.

 

[henleyregatta]

Worked fine for me last year when I took my RHD Model-S to France....

...OK I did use a Ferry rather than the Channel Tunnel, so not a 100% match, but no issues were found. This was pre-NoA but did have auto-lane-change available.

 

[WannabeOwner]

can you engage AP safely on continental roads? Including FSD features (i.e. lane changes) if you have them?

Yes. Any territory-specific features are geo-fenced - so you may find some functions won't work ... or some functions you never had start working

I've never driven outside the UK

I find the biggest risk with wrong-side-of-road driving is every time you set off. Even though driver-side will be curb-side it is very easy to drive-on-left as "normal". This is also the case when stopping at a junction then and turning, e.g., right - particularly when there is no other traffic about. So my advice would be to be particularly vigilant about that. Trogging along the motorway is straightforward ... although I do stack excess baggage <sigh!> so that I have a clear [rear view mirror] view to the opposite side

I ask all passengers to be vigilant on my behalf ...

You need various clobber for continental driving. I forget exactly, but including things like yellow hi-viz vest/jacket, at least 2 breathalyser tests, warning triangle, spare bulbs, first aid kit ... depending on where you are going ... and also a special "low emissions" permit to allow you to drive in some [country's] towns. Not needed if you aren't going to any of them of course ... but there is a lead-time to getting them (you can't "just do it at the border" AFAIK)

If you see a Radar Sign in France then there will be a detector shortly after that

 

[Fullerene]

You need various clobber for continental driving. I forget exactly, but including things like yellow hi-viz vest/jacket, at least 2 breathalyser tests, warning triangle, spare bulbs, first aid kit ... depending on where you are going ... and also a special "low emissions" permit to allow you to drive in some [country's] towns. Not needed if you aren't going to any of them of course ... but there is a lead-time to getting them (you can't "just do it at the border" AFAIK)

If you see a Radar Sign in France then there will be a detector shortly after that

This spare bulb thing - in a modern car what bulbs need spares? surely it's LED everywhere and you'd need a workshop to pull it apart with specialist tools to replace.

 

[WannabeOwner]

This spare bulb thing

I agree ... but that may not stop a Gendarme being awkward ...

 

[Fullerene]

So just carry some spare bulbs.. Will remember to pack some in the glovebox, Bayonet, Eddison, Tulip, Daffodil

 

[Rob R]

So just carry some spare bulbs.. Will remember to pack some in the glovebox, Bayonet, Eddison, Tulip, Daffodil

Tulip especially recommended in the Netherlands!