Glad you had success. Did it require lawyers?
I called them up, gave a short explanation, and they sent me to their vendor who handles the returns, no issues. Full price (including tax etc) back.
AIUI, they know not to fight, since in CA when they loose, they pay your legal fees.
Once it had been in N times, the game was over.
Also, by having some skin in the game, my guess is you're a lot more likely to drive it responsibly, which is probably the most effective safety feature of all.
https://www.ietl.net/news-details/no-more-drunk-driving.html
Unfortunately not upgrading means missing out on improvements to physical safety in the event of a crash.
The problem is I drive in a city with really narrow roads and it triggers the collision warning all over the place. I've also had it slam the brakes in a situation where that was not a good idea at all.
The forward attention warning ("you should take a break") is another one I'd love to be able to tune. I have a lot of late nights at work, falling asleep or becoming distracted while driving is a very real hazard that I appreciate, but it's absurdly sensitive.
At the time I got the car I wasn't sure if I wanted the old "totally obsolete" AP1 or the "probably going to get way better (cough)" AP2; I'm glad I got the obsolete version....
I wonder if there are modern cars with systems comparable to the mobileye system from the original tesla setup.
I understand your pragmatism, but it still boggles my mind how this metric could be considered satisfactory.
With an AP1 car, you can scan ahead 5-10 seconds (in about 1 second) and pretty quickly assess if the car's going to have a hard time with anything coming up (mostly it is an issue of lane lines vanishing in highway curves or lanes splitting ambiguously).
It is in the happy medium of predictably stupid such that it isn't ever really trusted. Something smarter may lull you into trusting it more, which leads to situations where it can trick you... I imagine there are people who think it's safe enough to scan the road every 1-2 minutes when in a more automated vehicle, and obviously the ultimate goal is "people in car ignore the driving aspect of the trip" -- both of those seem pretty ambitious goals but people are spending gigatons of money to solve these, so maybe it'll be solved?
I've also had animals jump in front of me (just in general, not related to teslas); driving is just dangerous but is a lot more convenient than walking everywhere.