Tesla’s Autopilot, which at its core combines lane keeping assist with traffic aware cruise control to help guide a car down a highway, was once groundbreaking technology.
Can’t wait for my 2020 build mach e to get bluecruise 1.3. OTA updates are the best.
Do they work on most roads or do they not? That’s the question. I find it absolutely infuriating when I see reviews of automated driving that proclaim “This is the best! Way better than Tesla!” and then I dig and dig (because the review barely mentioned this, if at all), and eventually I find it out their system works on maybe 5% of the places that I actually drive. From my standpoint, that’s a system that effectively doesn’t work and is completely unacceptable. Deal breaker.
It seems like all these reviewers live in big cities, and they only drive on freeways in big cities and on interstate highways that run between those big cities—and they assume everybody else does the same. They don’t seem to understand, those are places that some of us don’t often go. Some of us even take long roads trips (when driving assistance is most useful) that do a lot of roaming down smaller highways.
Do they work on most roads or do they not? That’s the question. I find it absolutely infuriating when I see reviews of automated driving that proclaim “This is the best! Way better than Tesla!” and then I dig and dig (because the review barely mentioned this, if at all), and eventually I find it out their system works on maybe 5% of the places that I actually drive. From my standpoint, that’s a system that effectively doesn’t work and is completely unacceptable. Deal breaker.
It seems like all these reviewers live in big cities, and they only drive on freeways in big cities and on interstate highways that run between those big cities—and they assume everybody else does the same. They don’t seem to understand, those are places that some of us don’t often go. Some of us even take long roads trips (when driving assistance is most useful) that do a lot of roaming down smaller highways.