I fail to understand this logic. You want to keep your hands on the wheel to be safe. Agreed. But you have to take your hand OFF the wheel to click the volume button. um ..ok. And you have to do that because you dont want to wiggle the wheel. er .. what?
What part don’t you understand. It’s not really that difficult.
I do in fact always keep my hands on the wheel, mainly because I don’t trust the car. The best that I can come with to make it do the proper torque is to sort of slide my hands across the wheel without actually putting any real torque on the wheel.
Using the wiggle technique which has been offered to me by Tesla SC employees (quite unbelievably) will often disengage the AP which to me is more dangerous than doing that move.
Taking my hands off the wheel to tune the volume or click the AP button, or to change the max speed which all will turn off the “nag” are all just forms of getting around the nag by ironically taking my hands off the wheel to do an unnecessary move like pretend I’m needing torque on the wheel or changing the volume (a calculated distraction which is unnecessary).
Tesla really can’t figure out a way to just say figure out that “his hands are on the wheel and ready to take over if need be” without the much more distractions methods then just keeping my friggen hands on the wheel and keeping my eyes on the road.
Tell me what part you are lacking to understand and I’ll try and draw a picture or something. This isn’t rocked science that I am explaining so I must be saying it wrong. I don’t know how people can disagree as 2 have.
That like disagreeing with what I think. You can disagree that you don’t think the same but you can’t disagree with what I think because I think it.
It’s like if you’re said “I don’t like this movie” and someone else saying “I disagree, you like that movie” which is a wholly disagree with “I disagree, I like that movie”.
If you think it makes more sense to have to roll the volume on one of the knobs, or do that perfect amount of torque, or figure out how to keep your hand and elbow rested just the right amount to keep it “fooled” why am I supposed to agree with you. I strongly disagree than just keeping your damn hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road like every other car we’ve had and I’ve had two Volts, and one hydrogen clarity (which by the way, is a million times better than any battery and wish there was more of a push towards hydrogen fuel cell technology, but I digress) and also, paying $10k for AWFUL self parking (and I’ve had self parking for a decade) and I do like the changing lanes and the driving has no match that I’ve owned but the “fooling the system” for the “nag” is not determined to be right or wrong to me because of what Tesla allows doesn’t make one right over the other. I understand that there are people that want to defeat the “nag” so they don’t have to keep their hands on the wheel but I can’t be less that person. I don’t trust this car to drive me without my hands placed dead on the wheel is just wrong.
So this time I overexplained so I hope you understand and if you don’t, I am not sure how else to explain.
Summary: I want to keep my hands on the wheel without doing redic extra moves that make no sense like pretending to turn, or changing the volume. These are just distractions. Hands on wheel looking forward is how you drive. I thought this was common knowledge.