I just got home from a long distance trip from Wyoming to southern Arizona and back. Several things stick out in my mind concerning the car and the charging infrastructure.
First, I had more trouble with superchargers being off line or not working properly than during all the trips I took in the past eight years (and there were many). I posted a separate thread about that elsewhere.
Second, the navigator would frequently get caught in some sort of a loop when I would select a supercharger from the pins on the map. It would display the message "finding superchargers for your trip" and then just sit there with the cursor spinning. I had to cancel the selection and then re-select it, after which it would promptly put up the list of intermediate chargers. It must have done this half a dozen times.
Third, whatever database Tesla draws speed limits from sorely needs updating. On several occasions I was driving happily down the road on autopilot and suddenly, for no apparent reason, the car would slow, the speed limit displayed would drop (usually to 40 or 45) and I would get the message that the car could not go faster than five miles over the limit on autopilot. There were no speed changes posted along the road.
Fourth, at some point one of the software updates enabled a functionality I first proposed when Tesla implemented the five-over limit while in autopilot - when heading into a reduced-speed zone the max speed drops, and now when leaving the reduced-speed zone the max speed and the set speed returns to what was originally set (as long as I didn't make any changes).So the car would come into town off a 65 zone into a 45, then 30 zones, and the car would slow down automatically - it always has. Now, if I don't change the setting or take the car off autopilot, when it gets through the town and the speed limit goes back up, the car accelerates back to where it was set without me having to do anything. This is the first trip I've ever been on where it did that. Might have been implemented some time ago - I don't go on many trips these days. But it was nice they did finally add that in.
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First, I had more trouble with superchargers being off line or not working properly than during all the trips I took in the past eight years (and there were many). I posted a separate thread about that elsewhere.
Second, the navigator would frequently get caught in some sort of a loop when I would select a supercharger from the pins on the map. It would display the message "finding superchargers for your trip" and then just sit there with the cursor spinning. I had to cancel the selection and then re-select it, after which it would promptly put up the list of intermediate chargers. It must have done this half a dozen times.
Third, whatever database Tesla draws speed limits from sorely needs updating. On several occasions I was driving happily down the road on autopilot and suddenly, for no apparent reason, the car would slow, the speed limit displayed would drop (usually to 40 or 45) and I would get the message that the car could not go faster than five miles over the limit on autopilot. There were no speed changes posted along the road.
Fourth, at some point one of the software updates enabled a functionality I first proposed when Tesla implemented the five-over limit while in autopilot - when heading into a reduced-speed zone the max speed drops, and now when leaving the reduced-speed zone the max speed and the set speed returns to what was originally set (as long as I didn't make any changes).So the car would come into town off a 65 zone into a 45, then 30 zones, and the car would slow down automatically - it always has. Now, if I don't change the setting or take the car off autopilot, when it gets through the town and the speed limit goes back up, the car accelerates back to where it was set without me having to do anything. This is the first trip I've ever been on where it did that. Might have been implemented some time ago - I don't go on many trips these days. But it was nice they did finally add that in.
"Tesla Supercharger" by Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine is marked with CC0 1.0.
Admin note: Image added for Blog Feed thumbnail