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Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

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Re: Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

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>The new system will move the car over a lane when the driver uses the turn signal. ...what if you're just turning right?

My guess is, then you probably won't be doing 60mph and in cruise control mode.

Not if you're the stig.

Re: Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

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>The new system will move the car over a lane when the driver uses the turn signal. ...what if you're just turning right?

Its probably like many luxury sedans (and pretty much every recent Benz) if you tap the turn signal stick it flashes the blinker three times to signal a lane change so you don't need to put it back into position once you have made the change.

This can't be proven. No one in the drivers' seat of a Benz has ever tapped the turn signal.

Re: Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

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as someone who just picked up my model S last week, it'd be kind of crappy if I missed the cut for these new sensors. the car is so nice though it's hard to complain.

Wait, I thought that the reason I can't afford a Tesla is that I waste too much time on HN....

Re: Tesla: No self-driver, but exotic features and go-fast model

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> The car reads speed-limit signs and adjusts the car to the speed on the sign. I hope this feature can be disabled. Where I live, the flow of traffic regularly exceeds the stated speed limit - sometimes by 20 mph. It would be very silly to be limited like this.

I am kind of curious what the vision system does when the sign has different speeds for different classes of vehicle. Or signs for night vs day.

Or on various Seattle roads, like I-5 where the speed limit is variable not just by time of day and congestion, but even which lane you're in. (Not to mention that the signs over each lane don't show the standard white rectangle with black text.)
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