Tesla owners slam enhanced autopilot safety assist as one car tries to drive into a tree

Tesla’s new self-driving feature has been criticized online, with even loyal owners saying it made them “nervous” and “dangerous.”

In December, Tesla offered its new Enhanced Autopilot safety assist feature to owners to try for 30 days free of charge before having the option to purchase it for $5,100.

The feature was made available to Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X owners.

Enhanced autopilot provides automatic lane change assist, auto park, and the ability to call the car to your location.

However, Tesla owners took to the Tesla Owners Australia Facebook group to share their horror stories, agreeing almost unanimously that they would not upgrade their vehicles at the end of the trial.

In December, Tesla offered owners its new, enhanced Autopilot safety assist feature to try for 30 days free of charge before having the option to purchase it for $5,100.

‘None of the “features” really worked well. Instead of making my life easier, they made me nervous and in my experience, they were dangerous,” one person said.

‘Please… take it away,’ wrote another.

While one man said new technology kept trying to turn his car into a tree and recounted numerous terrifying encounters.

‘Smart summons and trees were not a match made in heaven for my car. I had to stop it because it kept turning into the tree,” she said.

“We thought that he could pass by (my wife was next to the car), but at the last moment, he turned even more sharply and directly into the tree. He was too scared to try again.

One man said new technology kept trying to turn his car into a tree and recounted numerous terrifying encounters.

“I think I might have liked the automatic lane change, but I never really got the hang of it. It seemed to take forever (at that point I had overridden it) or it jumped to a place that wasn’t actually there.

‘On his last attempt (yesterday), he tried to turn into close passing traffic. I almost freaked out when I looked in the mirror, hit the gas pedal and got back into my lane.

Others said the auto park feature was a dud, took longer and felt less safe than if they had to park the car manually.

“I tried autoparking three times and each time it didn’t save me any time and caused a lot of worry and panic from the person in the passenger seat who was worried the car would hit a pole, curb or someone.” someone else’s car,’ wrote one person on social media.

‘The car would do a fifteen point turn where a carefully executed spin was all it needed.

“Also, out of the three times I tried to park, the car never parked in the spot it initially identified and ended up parking in one or two spots.”

Others said the auto park feature was a dud, took longer and felt less safe than if they had to park the car manually.