Tesla’s New Car Smell

Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell by carlivar on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:29PM (#15496687)

Odd. I drove in a Tesla and the owner showed off the Autopilot by having the car stay in a city street lane and have the car stop itself as the car in front of it stopped at a red light. When the car in front continued on, so did the Tesla.

My Odyssey can't do that.

Now I'm confused why Tesla would sound so limited, unless they are trying to cover their ass legally on how you SHOULD use autopilot versus how you CAN use it?

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Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell by yourapostasy on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:28AM (#15497505)

Hoping Tesla owners will jump in here with clarifications/corrections. My understanding is you can engage Autopilot as long as there are lines to follow, but it gets dodgy in many city street driving situations [1], so many owners simply follow Tesla's advice and only engage Autopilot on simpler highways. By the time you get to the point where you have to cognitively engage all the time supervising Autopilot for the odd situations, you might as well only engage adaptive cruise control.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Does-Tesla-Autopilot-work-on-city-subu...

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