V10 is a glimpse of the future. Certain aspects of the autopilot experience are greatly enhanced such as cars cutting in front of you in traffic produces a much smoother brake response than before. However in the past two days I've had the following problems. Some of these can be scary or at the least very discomforting, especially for passengers.
- Navigate on Autopilot dive bombing the merging process. Uncomfortably fast swerving into the rightmost lane of the highway from the on ramp. This occurred twice with no cars around me.
- Navigate on autopilot swerving to abandon a lane change because the original lane I was in got wider during the lane change process. It would rather center in the original lane than continue with the already initiated lane change process.
- Navigate on Autopilot mistakingly thinking I was no longer on the highway and reducing my set speed from 75mph to 45mph without warning.
- Since V10 came out it seems impossible to set cruise control below 50mph regardless of the type road you are on. I have multiple miles of 30mph surface streets to get to my house and I have to do 4 fast scrolls on the cruise control wheel to get it down to 30mph. Sometimes it'll continue to think I want to go 75mph and set cruise at that speed even though I'm on a neighborhood street. Cancel cruise that was set at 30mph for a stop sign and it resets back to 50mph. This is horrible behavior. Trying to set your cruise at 30mph and having it set to 75mph in a model 3 performance is terrifying if you don't have your foot on the accelerator pedal while setting the cruise control.
- Navigate on autopilot reducing speed from 80mph to 48mph before taking a perfectly straight and long exit ramp. I generally override the speed with the accelerator pedal manually but today there was no traffic behind me so I let it do its thing. Slowing to 48mph on the highway before taking a Long and straight exit ramp is dangerous.
- Re-merging: This has been a problem for a long time but it needs to be fix ASAP. Here in Texas the right most lane gets suddenly wider when an on-ramp meets the highway. AP will quickly try to re-center itself in a double width lane when this happens, it's most prevalent when following a car which prevents seeing the highway in the distance. It would be much safer for the car to continue to follow the white dotted inside lane marker. It does this sometimes so you know it can do it, just chooses not to.
- Navigate on autopilot reducing speed just before trying to merge due to slight curves in the on-ramp. People behind you are not expecting the car to be braking as you approach a highway with light traffic.