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OK, who would have the cajones to take hands off the steering wheel?

My first car with cruise control was a Granda Ghia and that system took the actual accelerator pedal away from you - that was bad enough!
 
I don't really get it other than a demonstration of technology/capability. I certainly wouldn't find it more relaxing, and i'd be petrified as a passenger. It'll be interesting to see how many people pay the subscription after the free period.

Here's a thing though - i wonder what it does if you refuse to steer it if it instructs you to?
 
My Hyundai has 'autopilot', but I take my hands off the steering wheel for more than 10 seconds, the autopilot deactivates itself (it's a safety feature, apparently).

But generally it does work fine on motorways and A roads.
 
My Audi A8 would happily drive itself, I had no problem with it. Unfortunately, the law in this country forbids this it at the current time.
The car knew this, and would give increasingly fervent 'prods' to get your hands back on the wheel.
I suspect that we are along way off using this technology legally. The technology is not the issue, it is users and mostly, the legal quagmire which will prevent its use.
 
Mactech said:
My Audi A8 would happily drive itself, I had no problem with it. Unfortunately, the law in this country forbids this it at the current time.
The car knew this, and would give increasingly fervent 'prods' to get your hands back on the wheel.
I suspect that we are along way off using this technology legally. The technology is not the issue, it is users and mostly, the legal quagmire which will prevent its use.
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It’s also the crappy state of most of our roads. Poor robots can’t see the edges….
 
Error detected, please switch off and reboot the system.
 
It gives a whole new perspective to the Blue Screen of Death.
 
Teslas can do this since 2014 😂 - the BBC just don’t like em! 😁

I use Autopilot every single day - works absolutely amazingly and makes long drives a breeze.

Due to regulations in this country you need to tap the steering wheel every now and then.

Here’s a clip from the USA where Full Self Drive Beta is out. It can do a lot more - I reckon a year or so and we will see this here also.

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P.S. your action always overrides autopilot - so if you grab the wheel and make a rapid turn, hit the brake etc… it will disable immediately. Really nothing to worry about. It’s a game changer - I did UK to Cologne on AP pretty much all of the motorway/dual carriageway. So much easier/less tiring.

Arguably when lane changing - the cameras are constantly checking the blind spot whereas humans can’t - they also anticipate when an overtaking car is approaching too fast. I had an incident a week or so ago where I was driving a Model 3 (not on AP) I was in lane 1 - moving to lane 2 to overtake, and an Audi in lane 3 was approaching at far over the speed limit, I had checked the mirror prior and didn’t anticipate him to be doing this speed - I signalled and started moving into lane 2 when suddenly the car made a loud beeping noise and the visualisation screen showed his car in red beginning to move into lane 2 at excessive speed - the cars wing camera detected this and made a loud beeping noise and I felt some resistance in the wheel. Very clever and impressive.
 
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The BBC don't make the decison, it's the government who grant the approval or not. In the case of Teslas, they haven't.
 
jdrrco said:
The BBC don't make the decison, it's the government who grant the approval or not. In the case of Teslas, they haven't.
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I was talking about publishing the capability via news articles… 😅
 
clk320x said:
I was talking about publishing the capability via news articles… 😅
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I don't understand. The BBC has published many, many news items about Tesla and their self-driving capabilities and many of those positive. I remember one about the Tesla which drove its occupant to hospital because he was suffering a pulmonary embolism.
 
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