Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Tesla touch screen controls.

Nick W

I am merely relating my experience; which is that once Autopilot is selected by means of a switch on a stalk it is difficult to imagine the car ‘veering’ anywhere.

As long as light pressure is put on the steering wheel the car will remain in lane and at whatever multiple of car lengths behind the vehicle in front. If traffic speeds up, so does the car (within cruise control parameters). If traffic stops, so does the car. If you enter a reduced speed limit, the car will respond. If you want to cancel Autopilot, either flick the switch or dab the brake.

Blaming the Touch Screen is a red herring. Once Autopilot is engaged you can do what you like - look at the countryside, have a snack, engage in a phone conversation, read Miscellany..........

My guess is that this car ‘veered’ because he did not give the Autopilot time to switch in (it makes various checks before doing do) and the driver has lost control as a consequence.

But that does not suit the anti-Musk narrative.

Edit: I should add that I cannot recall ever fiddling with the Touch Screen UNLESS I was on Autopilot - is IS too complex to manage when driving under normal circumstances, let alone in the rain as in this case.

Edit 2: Just remembered. The windscreen wipers are set to ‘Automatic’ by default. They vary in speed as the volume of rain increases or decreases. This is all described in the article, so I don’t quite know what he was trying to ‘adjust manually’.