2016 Active driver assist
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2016 Active driver assist
Question: My 2016 with active driver assist ... If you take your hands off the wheel it will steer itself for a limited time before detecting the 'hands-off'. I know it's not intended for full hands off use, but in this condition it wanders back and forth between the lane lines ... Uncomfortably so. It doesn't smoothly keep the car in the middle of the lane. I suppose since it's really intended to warn of lane departures it's not calibrated to smoothly 'steer' the car down the lane (e.g., like a Tesla would do). Anyone think Audi may eventually update the SW to make this operate more like the Tesla self-driving mode? Or at least make it steer more smoothly without searching by Braille for the lane lines?
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Question: My 2016 with active driver assist ... If you take your hands off the wheel it will steer itself for a limited time before detecting the 'hands-off'. I know it's not intended for full hands off use, but in this condition it wanders back and forth between the lane lines ... Uncomfortably so. It doesn't smoothly keep the car in the middle of the lane. I suppose since it's really intended to warn of lane departures it's not calibrated to smoothly 'steer' the car down the lane (e.g., like a Tesla would do). Anyone think Audi may eventually update the SW to make this operate more like the Tesla self-driving mode? Or at least make it steer more smoothly without searching by Braille for the lane lines?
If they were to add a self-steer function, it would likely measure the distance between the lane marker line and the tire on both sides and keep that distance even. And yes, it would be possible to update the software to do that. However, we can't even guess if Audi would ever contemplate to do that. In my opinion releasing that function could open up a huge liability issue they may not want to take.
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