MarcusMaximus
Active Member
Received 42.2 last night and took it for a test drive this afternoon in medium traffic. Navigate on Autopilot was completely useless for me. No matter how close I was to the exit, the car kept prompting me to get into the carpool lane. I was also subject to random slowdowns / braking periodically for no obvious fault or reason. (This is different from phantom braking, where it tends to occur near a freeway overpass or overhead sign.) The worst part was that the car constantly bombarded me with chimes and messages about clicking the stalk to change lanes, applying light force to the steering wheel, and that the car was attempting a maneuver. It was a huge unnecessary distraction. The combination of these issues makes Navigate on Autopilot a danger to use and I will not activate it again until I see significant improvement.
What were the engineers thinking?
I haven't used it that much, but haven't seen... any of those problems. I've gotten exactly 1 extra chime of any kind per session(notifying me that navigate on autopilot is deactivating on an offramp) and no messages other than the accompanying one to the chime I mentioned. No extra slowdowns or braking, my car, even with Mad Max mode enabled, didn't prompt me to get into a faster lane when I got within ~1 mile of my exit.
No idea what the difference is, but my guess is that the engineers you mention didn't see any of the problems you mention.