Honest question, do you feel you can safely take back the control of the car when driving on a motorway if the "auto pilot" feature take a random decision you cannot predict?
Maybe that's how you're "supposed" to use FSD but realistically nobody does that. Teslas are not super common in my area but I have one friend who has one with Autopilot and uses it on his ~35 minute highway commute to work. He reads his email on his laptop next to him and doesn't look up at the road until his car gets off the highway. That's how 99% of people will use this.
Your friend is pretty reckless.
I've personally never felt like I couldn't take control in <1s.
Yes, more. This is a fundamental problem with these sorts of “computer does safety critical thing but can’t do it perfectly” things; you need someone whose job is to do _nothing_ most of the time, but have full awareness of what the machine is doing and be ready to stop it at a moment’s notice. Humans are, generally, quite _bad_ at doing mostly nothing but remaining super-alert.
Annoyingly, to prove you are in control you must apply slight pressure on the steering wheel. I say annoyingly since it sometimes doesn’t register and you have to give more, which is counterintuitive if it is doing the right thing.
On single carriageways this is worse since you are effectively trying to steer the car into oncoming traffic or off the road to prove that you are watching. That’s one more reason I don’t use it on these types of roads.
All-in, it’s not really worth it tbh, and this is just the basic autopilot.
My hypothesis for the Kia is that direct sun on corners at speed might affect the vision and/or collision system[0].
Is an infrequent jolt a reasonable trade off for the benefits? As an experienced driver o think so, but would my kids be able to handle it when the learn to drive?
0 - https://www.kia.com/content/dam/kia2/in/en/content/ev6-manua...