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Another no radar experience from someone who has driven both : teslamotors

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2021-05-30 19:30:10

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Picked up a no radar Model Y from Princeton yesterday. Today I decided to travel down to Barnegat to visit family. Might be a lengthy post, but the following is the experience with a no radar car.

To set the scene a little there was moderate to heavy rain. It was by no means a downpour, but closer to that than a drizzle. Didn't start AP until I went on the parkway since it's only a couple miles away. Almost immediately after engaging autopilot I got a notification saying something along the lines of autopilot speed reduced due to inclement weather. I waited a while to see how low it would go, but eventually had to take over after it hit 54 or 55mph-ish. Traveling 55 on the parkway is just dangerously slow even when it's raining so I had to take over. I've taken this route many times in similar and even worse weather conditions and never had problems with my old Y. I figured I would just use cruise control, but I guess I should have known since it only allows TaCC, it had problems with that as well.

So I go another 10 or so miles having to drive manually without even basic cruise control (I know first world problems). At this point the rain briefly stopped completely, so I tried it again. It ended up being a double whammy of sorts. First I got a phantom brake event when I went under a double overpass and immediately after there was a merge. I wouldn't think it would be from the overpasses since my understanding is radar was rumored to cause that by bouncing up into them and misinterpreting it for a car. It also unfortunately cannot be explained by the merging cars though or really anything else since they were no where near me and I wasn't even in the right lane. Shortly after that, while it is still not raining mind you I again got the limited speed warning I'm assuming from the other cars kicking up the rain driving to the side of me. At this point I just went the rest of the way manually. Even when driving manually I got an alert stating forward collision warning when I was nowhere near anybody, not once, but twice. The Tesla went from the best car to drive a long distance on the freeway to a worse experience than my old Honda since at least that could use cruise control.