Which means you have the same cruise control as the rest of us just with a different stalk. ACC will probably be activated in future software though...
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Speed Assist and Lane Departure Warning
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Which means you have the same cruise control as the rest of us just with a different stalk. ACC will probably be activated in future software though...
R²B
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rrosenbl
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A member of the Ventura County owners group posted this on Facebook this morning:
"[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]Yes I do have those features. Lane departure works well. Subtle yet effective. Speed assist is great. It tells u speed limit wherever u are. Have not tired adaptive cruise yet."
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[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]So maybe the "D" in Elon's tweet refers to Dual Drive (cars were designed for a front motor with mounting position easily seen on all those bare chassis at Tesla's mall stores), and the "something else" are these driver assist features.
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"[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]Yes I do have those features. Lane departure works well. Subtle yet effective. Speed assist is great. It tells u speed limit wherever u are. Have not tired adaptive cruise yet."
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[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]So maybe the "D" in Elon's tweet refers to Dual Drive (cars were designed for a front motor with mounting position easily seen on all those bare chassis at Tesla's mall stores), and the "something else" are these driver assist features.
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UberEV1
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If the latest cars coming off the line have Speed Assist and Lane Departure Warning as standard, with no additional uplift in selling price, that would suggest that our non-equipped cars just dropped in value. Any thoughts on the dilutive effect of this?
hans
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Not a lot of resale inventory out there today so I would think the drop in value is not much, if anything at all.
Todd Burch
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Maybe dropped it by $200. That pales in comparison to the $10k+ drop in value when the car was delivered!
Maybe dropped it by $200. That pales in comparison to the $10k+ drop in value when the car was delivered!
In Norway, due to a combination of high demand and long delivery time, the resale value is actually higher than when new. This for cars being a year old, and typically 5-10.000 miles.
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Second that. Can any of you that took delivery lately, with what seems like a front radar installation and new stalks, please get your toolbox and disassemble the car until you find evidence that there is a front radar there, and not just a plastic cover for a future installation? We are many with cars in order for delivery soon, and we really want to know. Tesla dealership is worthless in this respect.
chickensevil
Active Member
From the very beginning they have not done the VINs in sequence order. Go into the Model S delivery thread and you will find some old posts of people actually taking delivery at the factory (so no transport delay) and having later VINs ready and take delivery before theirs. Specifically the Owner of S44 had some comments about how they were already delivered S8x VINs and he hadn't yet been allowed to go get his car.
For better or worse, VIN issuance doesn't linearly track with the production. This wasn't fully accepted by the community until the Q3/2013 fiasco where people were VIN counting to predict deliveries and was off by about 2000 cars.
Production dates are likely to be the most accurate way to track some of this (although not perfect as determined by the A battery to B and D switch) and I would base this one one when your car *most likely* went through the final assembly line (where these features would likely have been tacked onto the car) which would be almost the end of the build cycle. By my guess that would be around the 19th of Sep. If your car was finished after that date, you likely have the features.
jpet
Jan P.
Andre, given the transport time, cars with the new features will probably not arrive in Europe before early November. Based on the dates mentioned in this thread, the first cars with the features went into production on September 17. If I'm correct, production takes a week and the train and boat trip to Tilburg take around 6 weeks.
I just got a loaner today while they try and sort out the alignment on my car. The loaner has under 200 miles on it and it includes the lane departure and speed limit support. I haven't yet had a chance to try out the lane departure since traffic was rather heavy but I'll try it tonight. The speed support definitely works though.
I predict that those sensors are actually there to support the autopilot features, that Elon will announce next week. I think those cars will be able to do autopilot with a software upgrade.
A camera to read the speed limit signs? That's ridiculous overkill... but to support an autopilot makes much more sense.
A camera to read the speed limit signs? That's ridiculous overkill... but to support an autopilot makes much more sense.
I agree. I just posted this on another thread:
About time to unveil the D and something else - Page 56
That would be my assumption as well. Key supporting evidence: all cars equipped with that camera have additional sensors and switches installed which are not required for the described functionality and not used in any other way we know of.
I think it is clear that Tesla has bigger plans in the driver assistance area for those cars, possibly even fully autonomous driving.
Walter
CHG-ON
Still in love after all these miles
An update: the lane departure works (a little annoying, but not bad). The adaptive cruise does not seem to work. I have only tested it in traffic today. The cruise is fine, the adaptive doesn't seem to do anything at all.
The speed assist works like a charm. Being a new owner, it is very helpful to know when I am way over the limit since the car is so smooth and quiet. I don't find it intrusive at all. A little speed limit sign shows up for about 5 sec where the range gauge is on the instrument panel and then disappears. Very handy.
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