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Why add facts here?No need to get out if car. Just put in park.
I see the comments above "if I'm doing 90, I pretty much want to have my hands on the wheel" and "I want my hands on the damn wheel, and I think yours should be too."
My experience has been you are put into autopilot jail if you exceed 90 mph (or 95 mph) with AP on, even if you keep your hands on the steering wheel.
So AP jail is not trigged by driving over 90 mph with your hands off the steering wheel--is going over 90 with AP on alone enough to put you in AP jail ?
No need to get out if car. Just put in park.
Exactly why a lot of advice here is just plain wrong.Why add facts here?
It’s more fun to say you have to get out of the car a do a little dance in front of the cameras to appease autopilot.
Then there might be an incentive to maybe read the manual
No need to get out if car. Just put in park.
Autopilot jail should be at least somewhat relative. The problem of course is a lot of speed limits are incorrect in the current map system.
If the road has an 75, 80 or 85 MPH speed limit autopilot jail should probably adjust to 95 or 100.
They do not slap 80 or 85 MPH speed limits on just any roads. In TX the 80 MPH roads are in the flat desert where the road is fairly strait and flat for hundreds of miles. Not really taxing the autopilot to keep you centered at 80 MPH on a flat strait road. Hardly a situation where you need to keep both hands in a death grip on the wheel. The 85 MPH road is a toll road near Austin where they compete with the interstate by offering 85 vs 75 MPH (and it bypasses some slower areas).
The only times I have had it kick in is when I am set for 5 MPH over the speed limit, yes I know I am speeding, but I usually go with 5 MPH. I go to pass an 18 wheeler and another car comes up fast behind me and I want to do the courteous thing and give it a bit of gas to finish passing the semi and get back in the lane and slow back down. I just flick the stalk up and pass quickly and get back over. Of course the first couple of times I did it without disengaging the autopilot and got put in jail and did not really realize what had happened until I read up on it.
I know it is hard concept for many coastal state drivers to grasp that there may be empty roads with very fast speed limits, and you can actually drive that fast in the slow lane without having to pass very often. The main reason I restrict speed in my Tesla is not traffic but trying to conserve battery due to lack of supercharging infrastructure.
What other types of punishments can the Tesla take against you to not use autopilot?
A better behavior would be to have autopilot stop working (like it does) and then wait a couple of minutes before allowing it to be reengaged. Requiring someone to pull over and put a vehicle in park could be dangerous in a lot of areas.
Yeah AP is nice to have. It makes doing spontaneous long day trips or LA to Vegas trips much easier. I can stay in Vegas as long as I feel like on my last day and not worry about being tired for my drive home (I live in CA). And if I leave at late night, better for autopilot less cars / variables to deal with.It's been four years now and even though AP has improved a lot, I still see a long road ahead. These people that are getting in accidents under AP simply don't understand that it's only there to make driving easier NOT take over driving completely. Never expect it to replace an alert human in it's current state. That's what the manual says and that's what I say and believe.