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techdmn ◴[] No.42194803[source]
I have a Tesla with AEB that drives me up the wall. I'm often driving in heavy traffic, and occasionally need to quickly, but smoothly, stop within a few feet of the vehicle ahead. My car decides I'm cutting it too close, engages full automatic braking, jerking the car to sudden stop with a 10 foot gap. Sometimes the vehicle ahead will even start moving before my car is stopped, but it has decided to stop and stop it shall. Cannot override even by flooring the accelerator. I miss cars that did what they were told, when they were told to do it. For the record I've never rear-ended anyone.
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IncreasePosts ◴[] No.42194887[source]
There's a setting to disable that. I think you can just convert the action into a warning beep. That's the first thing I did, because I was pretty sure that the automatic braking was going to cause an accident before it saved me from an accident.

That's also part of the reason I would never even consider the Tesla insurance, where the cost is based on driving events like that I think? There is a RV that is parked on the street near a curve near my house, and every single time I drive by I get a warning about smashing into it.

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1. techdmn ◴[] No.42197293[source]
I can adjust the sensitivity in a way that is persistent, but I believe the emergency braking feature has to be turned off manually for every drive? I'll double check, but I have turned it off several times.