I actually don’t want autopilot for the fast, freeway speed driving. That’s easy. I want it for the mundane, exhausting stop-and-go, bumper to bumper traffic as we all slowly creep through the traffic.
LKA is just that, an assist, because if you let it drive it’ll bounce back and forth between the lane markers, not keep you seemingly centered.
Hyundais have exceptionally-good lane-following.
Edit: You can also accelerate without disabling it.
Or maybe I'm just salty that my cruise control has never worked.
Eh? Yes they do. Bizarre lie.
It was lost due to Tesla's decision to remove MobilEye as a supplier.
Mobileye generally focuses on highly optimized HW/SW that does individual things very well, in a manner similar to how factory automation works (e.g., they basically built a "lane keeping + auto-braking + sign reading" appliance).
Tesla decided that 1) It was bad to outsource automation 2) Starting from scratch and 'learning' how to drive using ML was better than iteratively teaching a car how to do discrete tasks very very well (this is why Autopilot regressed a bunch in 2016).
In general, it's another symptom of Elon's 'I have an extremely specific idea, let's figure out' mentality that sometimes works and sometimes results in useless tunnels under Las Vegas.
Personally I see bumper to bumper traffic maybe 3 or 4 times a year (when driving home from a vacation or being forced to a doctor’s appointment during rush hour). And I honestly don’t get why anyone would subjugate them self to this kind of traffic as part of their daily commute.
I used to live in LA where Santa Monica Blvd was always backed up. I doubt LA traffic has gotten better either.
I'm surprised by your insolence with regard to how shitty traffic circumstances are in big cities. Simply changing one's commuting times doesn't failsafe the issue.
Also, transit lines tend to connect well to mid-Manhattan but poorly between other locations. So if you live in Queens and work in Brooklyn, good luck getting to work reliably by public transportation. (Before you object to that arrangement, consider: If you own a house and have kids in school, you're not necessarily going to uproot your family and move just because your new job is further from home.)
Thus, many ordinary New Yorkers rely on cars to commute to work.
If you need to drive to the supermarket you should have the option of choosing a time and route with minimal risk of traffic jams. I find it hard to belief that many people are frequently hitting bumper to bumper traffics on their way to or from the supermarket. Occupationally yes, but frequently no.
1: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/84-25+168th+Pl,+Jamaica,+NY+...
The population of the tristate is nearly 20 million. Even a tenth of that is a lot of cars on the road.
In fact I’ve often heard people from that area complain more often about lack of parking near their commuter rail station. Which indicates that people do rather tolerate circling the parking lot in their park-and-ride rather then risking stop-and-go traffic jams.
In the NYC area, bumper to bumper traffic is common. It can be caused by an accident or construction that blocks one or more lanes, cars merging on to an already congested highway, etc. These conditions frequently happen even outside of rush hour.
You may have trouble understanding it, but empirically a huge number of people see this extremely regularly, if not daily.
It's not even necessarily a feature of horrifically long commutes. For one example, lots of places that have basically ok traffic have bottlenecks at bridges, you may be stop and go for a little while every day getting across that.