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Does the autopiloted steering wheel turn as if piloted by a human driver? If your hands are on a steering wheel, you’re watching the road, and autopilot begins

Does the autopiloted steering wheel turn as if piloted by a human driver? If your hands are on a steering wheel, you’re watching the road, and autopilot begins turning towards an obstacle, you should be aware enough to grip the wheel fully and prevent the incorrect turn. End of story. Edit: “Autopilot” is a great brand-name for the technology, but perhaps implies too much self-driving capability. Maybe “assisted steering” is a better term for this.

secabeen 9y ago
Yes, the wheel turns, and the driver can over-ride/take over from the Autopilot at any time by just turning, or resisting the auto-pilot's turning of the wheel.
Zanni 9y ago
Yes. What's disconcerting, though, is that the autopilot will often take a different line through a turn than I would. Still within the lane, just not what I would do. For me that felt like I had to correct the autopilot even when I didn't, so I didn't trust it. That was on a test drive. I've never enabled autopilot on my own Tesla.
gkya 9y ago
Nope. The wheel does turn, in videos I've seen, but with this video the problem is that the vehicle moves straight ahead as the yellow wall pops up in front of it, in which case the wheel would not indicate anything too.
amluto 9y ago
> If your hands are on a steering wheel, you’re watching the road, and autopilot begins turning towards an obstacle, you should be aware enough to grip the wheel fully and prevent the incorrect turn. > End of story. No, not true at all. If you’re in a car, paying complete attention, and holding the wheel, but keeping your arms loose enough that the car is fully controlling the steering, you somehow need to notice the car’s error and take over in something on the order of a second or perhaps much less. Keep in mind that, on many freeway ramps, there are places where you only miss an obstacle by a couple of feet when driving correctly. If the car suddenly stops following the lane correctly, you have very little time to fix it. It seems to me that errors of the sort that Autopilot seems to make regularly are very difficult for even attentive drivers to recover from.

secabeen 9y ago

Yes, the wheel turns, and the driver can over-ride/take over from the Autopilot at any time by just turning, or resisting the auto-pilot's turning of the wheel.

Zanni 9y ago

Yes. What's disconcerting, though, is that the autopilot will often take a different line through a turn than I would. Still within the lane, just not what I would do. For me that felt like I had to correct the autopilot even when I didn't, so I didn't trust it. That was on a test drive. I've never enabled autopilot on my own Tesla.

gkya 9y ago

Nope. The wheel does turn, in videos I've seen, but with this video the problem is that the vehicle moves straight ahead as the yellow wall pops up in front of it, in which case the wheel would not indicate anything too.

amluto 9y ago

> If your hands are on a steering wheel, you’re watching the road, and autopilot begins turning towards an obstacle, you should be aware enough to grip the wheel fully and prevent the incorrect turn. > End of story. No, not true at all. If you’re in a car, paying complete attention, and holding the wheel, but keeping your arms loose enough that the car is fully controlling the steering, you somehow need to notice the car’s error and take over in something on the order of a second or perhaps much less. Keep in mind that, on many freeway ramps, there are places where you only miss an obstacle by a couple of feet when driving correctly. If the car suddenly stops following the lane correctly, you have very little time to fix it. It seems to me that errors of the sort that Autopilot seems to make regularly are very difficult for even attentive drivers to recover from.