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Couldn't a driver engage TACC by engaging FSD and giving the steering wheel a good yank? Unless they changed it, one of the biggest flaws of Autopilot and FSD has been that it's easy to disengage Autosteer and the car won't try to reengage it. It's also incredibly easy to do by mistake. It...

Saying that they supported voice commands for a number of years implies that they hadn't done so all along. At least four of those were there from the beginning, at least with the Model S. It's possible that the original roadster didn't support them, and 13 years is a number of years, but...

Tesla should know at this point, based on data from every section of a particular highway coast to coast, how many cars are making trips on each section without the need to disengage. The trick is knowing whether any disengagements are necessary. For example, if I change lanes on my own, but the...

What he said in the past reminded me of other self driving demos I had seen years earlier. A driver shows a reporter for a major network how a car can drive itself. The driver types in a destination, the car takes local streets, gets on the freeway and ends up at that location. What never...

What are the rules? It can't charge itself. It's already good at driving on freeways and I don't think that part will be so hard, except it's questionable whether it can be done without taking over. But in fairness, almost all of the time when I take over, it's not because I have to and the car...

It's not clear to me that that would even be legal, except if it keeps you from having features that were never promised. For example, if the old infotainment system can't handle the graphics to show you what's on the road, that would be legitimate since it wasn't promised. But if they simply...

They are wrong, assuming that you bought the car privately. If you bought it from Tesla, it has it only if they listed it as a feature. If you go to the settings screen and select software, you can touch Additional Vehicle Information to see what hardware you have, etc. Below Software, you can...

There's nothing new about this feature and it's somewhat helpful but still has a huge flaw. It's nice that if I'm using my profile, it won't pick my wife's phone by mistake. But it also assumes that it picked the right profile to begin with. This problem has been an issue for as long as...

Another undocumented change with 11.3.4 (possibly other 11.3.x) is that Tesla finally fixed the bug with USB audio not remembering what was playing from one use of the car to the next. This was after being broken literally for years.

You're "stuck with" HW3 in the same sense that anybody who buys any car is generally stuck with the HW that it came with. Personally, I've seen a lot of behavior that I didn't like and that isn't correct prior to this update, but none of it had to do with the car being unable to see anything...

What they require is paying attention to the road. I don't know what "steering wheel attention" is because you don't need to be paying attention to anything in order to hold a steering wheel. If you do hold it, and the car tries to make a turn, autosteer disengages.

The question is whether I will be able to charge a Tesla that's not my Tesla. In other words, if I go to a Supercharger station with somebody else's Tesla, use my app, select "charge your non-Tesla", give it a stall number and it gives me a cable with a an adapter attached, I'd want to be able...

Yes, the worst possible time for the nag is in the middle of something like a lane change, where no driver should be looking at the screen. That's the worst time for autosteer to wait until it thinks that someone is holding the wheel, and the only practical and least distracting way to handle it...

Agreed. It's safer to watch the road than to look for nag messages. It's safer to hold the wheel loosely than to put pressure in the wrong direction, since it's quicker to react. And when the action needed to let the car know that you are holding the wheel is the same as the one needed to...

Currently, if I want to back out of my garage, the side camera shows that I have clearance. But Summon doesn't know that. Cameras could improve everything except what's right in front of the vehicle.

Actually, the original Autopilot did have problems with slopes early on, but it was fixed within a couple of updates. For me, it was an update with no release notes.

Actual smart summon? Musk promised at the original announcement for Autopilot that the car would be able to meet me at the curb in front of my house. It can't do it with AP1 and it can't do it with FSD. In fact, FSD is a bit worse, because it complains that my driveway has a slope. It's not...

The steering wheel never measured attentiveness to begin with. It may or may not have registered whether the driver was holding the wheel but not whether the driver was watching the road. Most accidents with or without any ADAS equipment happen when a driver is holding the wheel. The cabin...

Not true at all. For the types of things that need immediate responses, those are the types of things that ADAS handles far better than people. For things that Autopilot isn't designed to handle, there's going to be plenty of time to take over for anybody paying attention. And people not paying...

Tesla has never shown any data in the first place indicating that the nags decrease accidents or get people to pay more attention. There's no FMVSS requirement for steering wheel nags, nor is there even a requirement in the US, except in NY, for a driver to hold the wheel. While it makes sense...