I'm seeing Tesla service for the third time regarding this. I keep telling them I believe it's a bug and should not happen, yet they keep telling me it is fine and nothing is wrong with my car. How can I convince them that this is a bug and needs fixing, hopefully in a future version?
While I agree with you in principle, calling the software development quirks by Tesla's autopilot a "bug" is not going to get you anywhere I'm afraid. The vagaries of how autopilot behaves are done by the development team at Tesla and the service centre not only has zero ability to do anything about it, I doubt very much they even have any way to give this information to the autopilot team in a useful fashion since the AP team is likely overwhelmed by reports from all over the place.
Yes I want it to be a lot better, but unfortunately I can already see this one falls into the "annoying quirks of living with an eternally beta feature." It may even not be beta one day, and
still have the same quirk. It's there for a reason, not everyone gets affected by it equally. Me, I get affected almost
every manual lane change because I turn the indicator stalk and then turn the steering wheel immediately to disengage autosteer and change lanes smoothly linearly after that which is exactly what triggers it.
"It's not a bug it's a feature" also is "one man's bug is another man's feature." Alas to you and me, and likely many others, this one IS a bug.
Believe me, there are SO many quirks of autopilot/autosteer that I would do differently, but there's nothing more we can do about it except continuously feed back however we can, be it via this forum or random tweetbacks to Elon in the hope it's the one in a million he responds to or whatever. To that end, that's why I also created a "GOOD IDEAS" thread.
The "GOOD IDEAS" thread