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Huh, TIL Tesla Autopilot only works at speeds below 50 mph. I thought it was mainly for highway driving, but highways are more like 60-100 mph. I assumed it worked at highway speeds. What gives?



What? Where did you read this? I have a Model 3 and Autopilot works at regular highway speeds (65+ mph). I use it for highway driving all the time.


Considering the elevator bottleneck at the end I don't think theoretical speeds are that important anyway.


It works at highway speeds (though the max you can set it to is 90mph). I think if you're going faster than 90 it may hold that speed, but it won't accelerate above 90 on its own.


My 2015 S 70D Autosteer works between 30 kph and 150 kph, roughly 20 mph to 90 mph.


TYDL because you are wrong.


My mistake, I had to search for the max Autosteer speed and Google gave me an old article. Seems they have been upgrading steadily from 45 mph in January 2017 to (currently) 90 mph?

But then my original question remains: why do they need guide wheels for this, when they can do 90 mph without them on normal roads?


>why do they need guide wheels for this, when they can do 90 mph without them on normal roads?

The tunnel in the article is very narrow. Imagine trying to drive at 90mph through a car wash without touching the sides.


Even that’s wrong. My S would do autopilot to 90 mph in 2016.



Ah, that's HW2 cars. The original autopilot cars were already going up to 90.




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