I was surprised to find that the Model 3 doesn't offer speed limit recognition yet (I'm on software version 2019.8.5).
The display sometimes shows speed limits but they appear to be rather random and not really true to what is actually signposted.
For example, on out of town roads it usually displays 100 km/h, which is the standard for out of town roads in Germany.
More often than not there are stretches of road where the speed is reduced to 70 km/h or 80 km/h, mind you not temporary but permanently, as indicated by permanent road signs. Same goes for inner town roads, where the standard speed limit in Germany is 50 km/h, while lots of roads especially in residential areas have a 30 km/h limit (signposted of course).
Now in our e-Golf the camera system of the TACC recognizes the road signs and displays the appropriate actual current speed limit in the display. This tends to work flawlessly almost 100% of the time. Sometimes, especially during roadworks on the Autobahn, the system can get confused due to improperly placed road signs (like a 60 and 80 right next to one another because the contruction workers forgot to obscure the sign that is temporarily invalid), but on the whole it works a treat.
In the Model 3, even though it has so many cameras for the AP system, none of them appear to recognize actual speed limit signs.
This becomes a problem when I want to activate cruise control, as the system automatically accelerates to the max limit it believes to be accurate, even though the actual limit might be much lower. Usually when I set cruise control in any other car, the car simply sets the speed you drive at this moment, not accelerate to some imaginary speed limit.
Anyone else experience this? Has this been brought to Tesla's attention and is this due to be remedied in a future software update? I mean, how is true Autopilot supposed to work if the system gets the speed limit wrong a lot of the time?
I have read that this year there is supposed to be an update concerning stop sign and traffic light recognition, but wouldn't true speed limit reconition be far more important first?
The display sometimes shows speed limits but they appear to be rather random and not really true to what is actually signposted.
For example, on out of town roads it usually displays 100 km/h, which is the standard for out of town roads in Germany.
More often than not there are stretches of road where the speed is reduced to 70 km/h or 80 km/h, mind you not temporary but permanently, as indicated by permanent road signs. Same goes for inner town roads, where the standard speed limit in Germany is 50 km/h, while lots of roads especially in residential areas have a 30 km/h limit (signposted of course).
Now in our e-Golf the camera system of the TACC recognizes the road signs and displays the appropriate actual current speed limit in the display. This tends to work flawlessly almost 100% of the time. Sometimes, especially during roadworks on the Autobahn, the system can get confused due to improperly placed road signs (like a 60 and 80 right next to one another because the contruction workers forgot to obscure the sign that is temporarily invalid), but on the whole it works a treat.
In the Model 3, even though it has so many cameras for the AP system, none of them appear to recognize actual speed limit signs.
This becomes a problem when I want to activate cruise control, as the system automatically accelerates to the max limit it believes to be accurate, even though the actual limit might be much lower. Usually when I set cruise control in any other car, the car simply sets the speed you drive at this moment, not accelerate to some imaginary speed limit.
Anyone else experience this? Has this been brought to Tesla's attention and is this due to be remedied in a future software update? I mean, how is true Autopilot supposed to work if the system gets the speed limit wrong a lot of the time?
I have read that this year there is supposed to be an update concerning stop sign and traffic light recognition, but wouldn't true speed limit reconition be far more important first?
