EV owners of today and tomorrow

[CloverKnollFarms]

What happens if he's on Indiana 165???

There might be some explaining to do

Or you are cruising at 55m mph and it sees Indiana 29... Hope the guy behind you isn't on his phone

 

[Dftodd]

Or you are cruising at 55m mph and it sees Indiana 29... Hope the guy behind you isn't on his phone

Our car will match speed with the vehicle in front of us when set to cruise control.

I had to switch the following distance down to one car length.

We have some rural 4 lane roads with little traffic.

What happens is I'll go to move to the hammer lane to go around someone I'm catching up too with the cruise set.

I'll cross the 4 car lengh threshold and the car would suddenly brake to match the vehicles speed we were fixing to pass.

Then once you get into the hammer lane, the car would go full throttle to get back up to set speed.

Raises he## with your fuel economy, and a little dangerous if the vehicle behind you isn't paying attention.

These safety features are black and white

Our new dodge service truck has lane positioning in it.

I was driving it for a week while my truck was in the shop. The tech assigned that truck was on vacation. So I was covering for him and using his truck.

I was on a twisty, narrow, two lane road on my way to northern Arkansas. I was coming down through a particularly tight and twisty spot when I lost all the feed back in the steering wheel in a 20,000lb truck for a moment

Got up the road a little bit and had it happen again. I was hugging corners incase I met something bigger than me.

I pulled off and searched for the button to shut off the lane positioning. No more loss of feed back in the steering.

Darn thing felt like I was hydroplaning when I would lose the feedback. But I was actually turning the steering wheel the same direction it was trying to correct too.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I expect by 2050 this will no longer be an issue. It's hard to realize that is only 25 years away.

 

[DarkBlack]

Well, my buddy said this version is markedly worse than the last. He said he had about 20 interventions on his way to our home. The drive to my son's workplace was fine, the drive back however not. We turned left at a mostly deserted intersection, and half way through the turn the car straightened the wheel and accelerated toward an embankment that led into the lawn of an Arbys. . So, there was that intervention. I was not overly impressed. He did say also, that it's annoying that it reads Indiana highway signs, as speed limit signs, and adjusts speed accordingly. It's unable to discern speed limit, from our white and black highway signs. . He also said it seems to be on and off the accelerator a lot more with the new version, not as smooth. Like a NYC Lyft driver
The car is neat, but the FSD wasn't very impressive.

FSD sees this as 67mph.
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Official US speed limits are in increments of 5. There should be at least a line of code to exclude any perceived speed limits that don’t follow that rule

 

[Grumpycat]

I expect by 2050 this will no longer be an issue. It's hard to realize that is only 25 years away.

“EV” incentives and legislative/regulation force is the worse solution possible.

Today there are many vendors of metered L2 EVSEs. May use credit card, may use private membership card, or both, up to the operator. Up to state and local laws as to whether it is legal to resell electric power by the kWh. Not legal everywhere, where charging stations bill by the minute to get around stupid laws.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Official US speed limits are in increments of 5. There should be at least a line of code to exclude any perceived speed limits that don’t follow that rule

Apparently not currently

 

[tradosaurus]

I expect by 2050 this will no longer be an issue. It's hard to realize that is only 25 years away.

In 25 yrs, 75% of this forums membership will be dead.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

In less than that, 2/3 of the EV owners in this thread will be dead.

 

[WinterDeere]

FSD sees this as 67mph.
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That's really surprising. You'd think the software would know there's no "67 mph" roads, ignoring anything that's not an increment 5 mph. You'd also think they'd couple it with the GPS, as at least all the roads I drive in my daily travels, have speed limits that show correctly in Waze and other mapping apps.

If I were programming this software, I'd be looking for at least approximate agreement between signage and GPS data.

 

[Eagle1]

I have a bunch or 10 MPH speed limit signs in the shop, now I have ideas