Wanted to share my experiences after a lot of driving in the past 72 hours with this software. For context I have a Model S P100D with HW3, MCU2 and FSD.
I drove from Sydney to Beechworth VIC and back. Up and down the Hume. Overall, I would say the autopilot experience has never been worse.
Phantom braking - the first infuriating development is that on about 70% of occasions when on AP and passing a truck, the car suddenly slows as if the truck (in the left lane) is an obstacle. Very annoying (and often unnerving) and not popular with the people behind me passing the same truck...
Navigate on Autopilot - for the entire length of the drive on the Hume, NOA would randomly toggle on and off with the accompanying chimes, sometimes more than once in a minute. Rendering it completely useless.
Auto lane changes - completely inconsistent and unreliable. Moving right out of the cruising lane into the passing lane works on most occasions (usually not automatically but if initiated by me with the indicator). But, moving left out of the passing lane is only available about 25% of the time - and even then, the car aborts the move and lurches back to the passing lane during about half of those changes. For the other 75%, you just sit there in the passing lane with the left blinker going and nothing happens. Even with 100’s of meters of separation from the nearest car. The only way to change lanes is to disengage a/p, change lanes manually and then reengage a/p.
My wife’s model X (with HW2.0 and no FSD but EAP (not FSD) had the same issues with lane changes the last time I drove it on the highway. Had not seen the other issues but have not tired it with this SW version.
Is this a RHD/ Aus thing? Are other people experiencing these issues. It’s really disappointing after all these years.
I drove from Sydney to Beechworth VIC and back. Up and down the Hume. Overall, I would say the autopilot experience has never been worse.
Phantom braking - the first infuriating development is that on about 70% of occasions when on AP and passing a truck, the car suddenly slows as if the truck (in the left lane) is an obstacle. Very annoying (and often unnerving) and not popular with the people behind me passing the same truck...
Navigate on Autopilot - for the entire length of the drive on the Hume, NOA would randomly toggle on and off with the accompanying chimes, sometimes more than once in a minute. Rendering it completely useless.
Auto lane changes - completely inconsistent and unreliable. Moving right out of the cruising lane into the passing lane works on most occasions (usually not automatically but if initiated by me with the indicator). But, moving left out of the passing lane is only available about 25% of the time - and even then, the car aborts the move and lurches back to the passing lane during about half of those changes. For the other 75%, you just sit there in the passing lane with the left blinker going and nothing happens. Even with 100’s of meters of separation from the nearest car. The only way to change lanes is to disengage a/p, change lanes manually and then reengage a/p.
My wife’s model X (with HW2.0 and no FSD but EAP (not FSD) had the same issues with lane changes the last time I drove it on the highway. Had not seen the other issues but have not tired it with this SW version.
Is this a RHD/ Aus thing? Are other people experiencing these issues. It’s really disappointing after all these years.