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by vardump 11 days ago
Do you mean FSD or Autosteer (or Autopilot or whatever it's called now). I think Tesla left Autosteer purposefully crappy. FSD is excellent at keeping the lane, way better than what your Škoda can do.
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I agree it is intentional. They haven't updated autosteer, as far as I can tell, since the Model 3 was released. Certainly my 2023 (sold a couple weeks ago) was no better than my 2019 was, and notably worse than my Ford Lightning. Outside of FSD, most everyone else makes superior TACC & lane centering now.
Autosteer is disabled on all new vehicles too, part of forcing people to buy FSD.
I feel like many won’t consider FSD if their autopilot doesn’t work well.

Maybe they did some market analysis. I find the idea that a shitty autopilot will trigger FSD conversions to be very optimistic.

It’s old free Autopilot. It doesn’t convince me to buy FSD, hardware is the same at the end.

I am used that demo shows best features of the product…