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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by giobox on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:56PM (#33351255)
Curious, what did you expect here? As far as I can tell, enhanced ap is identical to the standard "basic ap" on all cars, the only additions are:

* automated lane change when you press indicator

* Summon (a google tells you all you need to know about how bad)

* Autopark (this has never worked on my model 3 either, aside from a handful of times. Again, common knowledge it doesn't work).

* Automated freeway exit selection

Otherwise, its the same pretty good lane-keep system they give you with the car as standard.

Of course, Tesla being Tesla I'm sure the feature set will change with time, so maybe you get more later? Tesla don't promise this though, and like all tech you should evaluate purchase on its features today, not its promises tomorrow? I might have missed something, but generally thats all it adds over the basic AP you got with the car, and it's quite clearly documented as such. I can certainly agree I'd feel sick too if I'd paid $6k for it in its current advertised form!

Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by outlace on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @08:26PM (#33351452)
I thought the "navigate on autopilot" feature was basically FSD but on highway only. But no, it just suggests lane changes that are dumb most of the time. Yes, I can only blame myself really, but I can't believe they would even sell such a worthless package for $6,000 more.
Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by dham on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:11PM (#33351761)
Yea Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control on every other car maker. Such an awful term. Full self driving is the in city driving, negotiating stoplights, turns etc.
Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by smaryjerry on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:41AM (#33357339)
I think this is only confusing because most people’s only understanding of autopilot is what they watched in movies when the pilot flicks a button and leaves the cockpit go fight a villain so they imagine autopilot means FSD which it isn’t at all in its original use in planes either.