So basically, you can’t use this anywhere in Southern California. I know this reads like a joke, but you have to take the highways everywhere here and they are constantly under construction. And...
When lane markings are poor or visibility is limited
In a tunnel or construction zones
So basically, you can’t use this anywhere in Southern California.
I know this reads like a joke, but you have to take the highways everywhere here and they are constantly under construction. And if you are planning on traveling through a particularly rural area it is very likely that the roads aren’t very well maintained.
Can confirm this one, at least in a Tesla (which as far as I can tell doesn't have this warning/restriction). Rented a Tesla to take on a trip to Austin. Decided to try the self driving/auto...
On a freeway or highway exit lane
Can confirm this one, at least in a Tesla (which as far as I can tell doesn't have this warning/restriction). Rented a Tesla to take on a trip to Austin. Decided to try the self driving/auto pilot. Was in the slow lane and an onramp came up and once the line separating the onramp to the lane ended, as the onramp lane would merge into the slow lane, the Tesla freaked out and swerved violently between the onramp merging section and the actual slow lane. Along with a few other slow lane issues in my account of the rental last year.
Continuation about Tesla
If I got a Tesla, thinking about a Cybertruck but been rethinking it lately, the only thing I'd use is the radar adaptive cruise control as being able to set the cruise and let the car handle bumper to bumper traffic for me is great, Tesla's version will both come to a complete stop and resume driving when traffic starts to move, but Tesla has now started to remove radar completely and is using a pure camera approach in the future. It's inability to stay in one lane or act in a predictable manner with cameras and sensors on autopilot gives me little faith in a pleasant adaptive cruise control experience on cameras alone.
Autopilot is extremely nice if you use it and are aware of the edge cases or problem areas. I've made about a dozen 500+ miles trips now, and Autopilot is amazing for making the driving experience...
Autopilot is extremely nice if you use it and are aware of the edge cases or problem areas. I've made about a dozen 500+ miles trips now, and Autopilot is amazing for making the driving experience easier. I've had a couple of instances where, if the exit lane just... appears (without a dashed line) from the right lane, the car has to try to make a decision to follow one, and sometimes picks poorly. Any area of construction, like when they shift the lanes, is also a big opportunity for confusion, especially if it's not well marked. I always disable autopilot during construction areas and drive manually.
fun clarification, Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise are different. right out of the gate, they've done a really terrible job at naming and marketing this: so...what do I get from "ultra" that I don't...
WHEN NOT TO USE SUPER CRUISE
fun clarification, Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise are different. right out of the gate, they've done a really terrible job at naming and marketing this:
GM’s two hands-free advanced driver-assist systems will coexist in the company’s lineup with Super Cruise available on more mainstream vehicles and Ultra Cruise reserved for premium entries.
so...what do I get from "ultra" that I don't get from "super"? is it safer? does it let me be hands-free in more scenarios? this seems like a really weird market segmentation line to draw.
to me, this is the most telling line:
Do not use a hand-held device.
your hands are free - to sit in your lap and not do anything else.
to me at least, this sounds worse than actually driving. I'm supposed to just sit there, hands in my lap and eyes on the road, in case I need to jump in and take over?
of course, realistically, people will use their phones. and they'll find ways around the "Driver Attention Camera" that's supposedly going to force them to keep their eyes on the road.
which then provides GM a convenient get-out-of-liability-free card when crashes inevitably happen. driver was supposed to pay attention, they weren't. so it's not GM's fault, the liability for the crash lies only with the owner.
Seconded on the public transit where it's available and makes sense with scheduling. In bigger cities like Chicago, I found having a car to be mostly an annoyance and just used the L and buses for...
Seconded on the public transit where it's available and makes sense with scheduling. In bigger cities like Chicago, I found having a car to be mostly an annoyance and just used the L and buses for everything. In my current city (pop. ~250,000), the transit system is as good as I suppose it can be for here. Some trips make sense, others really don't. Trying to get to the community college from my mid-city address results in layovers between buses longer than the entire trip to just drive there. A little over an hour by bus for a drive that takes a little under 20 minutes. Taking the bus both ways is a considerable time investment. I'll always advocate for taking the bus when it makes sense, though, and investing further in our public transit.
What I am genuinely looking forward to about these hands-free systems is people letting the car figure out its speed and actually hold it. If these gain high enough adoption, it may eliminate my biggest pet peeve about driving: People not knowing the speed limit and just picking a random number every 30 seconds.
Then again, if they won't even pick a speed and hit their current cruise button on the interstate, I should have no reason to believe they'd ever hit this one. I swear sometimes I wish I could just reach into other people's cars, hit the cruise button, and yank their feet away from the gas pedal for all our sakes.
So basically, you can’t use this anywhere in Southern California.
I know this reads like a joke, but you have to take the highways everywhere here and they are constantly under construction. And if you are planning on traveling through a particularly rural area it is very likely that the roads aren’t very well maintained.
Can confirm this one, at least in a Tesla (which as far as I can tell doesn't have this warning/restriction). Rented a Tesla to take on a trip to Austin. Decided to try the self driving/auto pilot. Was in the slow lane and an onramp came up and once the line separating the onramp to the lane ended, as the onramp lane would merge into the slow lane, the Tesla freaked out and swerved violently between the onramp merging section and the actual slow lane. Along with a few other slow lane issues in my account of the rental last year.
Continuation about Tesla
If I got a Tesla, thinking about a Cybertruck but been rethinking it lately, the only thing I'd use is the radar adaptive cruise control as being able to set the cruise and let the car handle bumper to bumper traffic for me is great, Tesla's version will both come to a complete stop and resume driving when traffic starts to move, but Tesla has now started to remove radar completely and is using a pure camera approach in the future. It's inability to stay in one lane or act in a predictable manner with cameras and sensors on autopilot gives me little faith in a pleasant adaptive cruise control experience on cameras alone.
Autopilot is extremely nice if you use it and are aware of the edge cases or problem areas. I've made about a dozen 500+ miles trips now, and Autopilot is amazing for making the driving experience easier. I've had a couple of instances where, if the exit lane just... appears (without a dashed line) from the right lane, the car has to try to make a decision to follow one, and sometimes picks poorly. Any area of construction, like when they shift the lanes, is also a big opportunity for confusion, especially if it's not well marked. I always disable autopilot during construction areas and drive manually.
fun clarification, Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise are different. right out of the gate, they've done a really terrible job at naming and marketing this:
so...what do I get from "ultra" that I don't get from "super"? is it safer? does it let me be hands-free in more scenarios? this seems like a really weird market segmentation line to draw.
to me, this is the most telling line:
your hands are free - to sit in your lap and not do anything else.
to me at least, this sounds worse than actually driving. I'm supposed to just sit there, hands in my lap and eyes on the road, in case I need to jump in and take over?
of course, realistically, people will use their phones. and they'll find ways around the "Driver Attention Camera" that's supposedly going to force them to keep their eyes on the road.
which then provides GM a convenient get-out-of-liability-free card when crashes inevitably happen. driver was supposed to pay attention, they weren't. so it's not GM's fault, the liability for the crash lies only with the owner.
These sound like a lot more than 95%of driving scenarios
Seconded on the public transit where it's available and makes sense with scheduling. In bigger cities like Chicago, I found having a car to be mostly an annoyance and just used the L and buses for everything. In my current city (pop. ~250,000), the transit system is as good as I suppose it can be for here. Some trips make sense, others really don't. Trying to get to the community college from my mid-city address results in layovers between buses longer than the entire trip to just drive there. A little over an hour by bus for a drive that takes a little under 20 minutes. Taking the bus both ways is a considerable time investment. I'll always advocate for taking the bus when it makes sense, though, and investing further in our public transit.
What I am genuinely looking forward to about these hands-free systems is people letting the car figure out its speed and actually hold it. If these gain high enough adoption, it may eliminate my biggest pet peeve about driving: People not knowing the speed limit and just picking a random number every 30 seconds.
Then again, if they won't even pick a speed and hit their current cruise button on the interstate, I should have no reason to believe they'd ever hit this one. I swear sometimes I wish I could just reach into other people's cars, hit the cruise button, and yank their feet away from the gas pedal for all our sakes.
Still waiting for GM to provide a non-explosive battery for my Bolt.