Funny little things that drive me crazy | diva safe zone

[TDinDC]

Your speedo updates more frequently, you don't accelerate faster than 2 mph per second, or you only care about approximate speed within 10mph?

the rate of change for my speedometer is more than appropriate and smooth for any acceleration rate I am able to achieve. No lag due to refresh rate, although to be fair I very infrequently focus on speedometer.

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[SlyStyle]

there are a few nit picks I have, the two biggest being 1) how slow the windows roll up and down and 2) that you cannot close the trunk remotely. There are physical buttons to close it on the trunk, so why couldn’t they have the fob close it or a button/function on the PCM?

side note, I’m probably the only one who doesn’t mind the rear backup cam. But I probably would mind if I didn’t have the 360 view.

 

[SergeyIndy]

there are a few nit picks I have, the two biggest being 1) how slow the windows roll up and down and 2) that you cannot close the trunk remotely. There are physical buttons to close it on the trunk, so why couldn’t they have the fob close it or a button/function on the PCM?

side note, I’m probably the only one who doesn’t mind the rear backup cam. But I probably would mind if I didn’t have the 360 view.

I do not have the car yet, but I drove several loaners, and you can close the lid using so called flap view and a foot gesture. I only have this version of the e-manual so your actual manual would have a similar page to reference:

 

[magnitude]

there are a few nit picks I have, the two biggest being 1) how slow the windows roll up and down and 2) that you cannot close the trunk remotely. There are physical buttons to close it on the trunk, so why couldn’t they have the fob close it or a button/function on the PCM?

side note, I’m probably the only one who doesn’t mind the rear backup cam. But I probably would mind if I didn’t have the 360 view.

Just quickly hit the window buttons instead of holding them, it will be fast. Holding the window buttons is for when you need “precise” control.

 

[magnitude]

The thing which has been driving me nuts lately is the door handle sensors keep on locking the car when I touch them, even after I manage to actually open the door (after unlocking it using the fob). In cold temperatures the car would not let me lock it (it would unlock itself immediately), in the summer apparently it keeps on locking itself (or perhaps Porsche OTA changed their poor design to overlock instead of overunlock?). Porsche seem to know how to make a car drive great, but they are completely incompetent when it comes to door handles (or apparently any locking system, remember the random car alarm going off in the middle of the night which took Porsche 9+ months to fix?). They still haven't fixed random audio source switches which keep on occurring if I use anything but CarPlay for music (I actually drive mostly in silence, but the car sometimes enabled FM or other sources, purely randomly).

Are we sure other manufacturers don’t just interpolate? Which may or may not be better, after all an analogue gauge also has a low pass filter built in just through its mechanical principle, and we’re fine with that.

 

[bsclywilly]

I haven't seen one, but then again I wasn't looking for it. Pseudo analog would probably suffer from the same update rate issue as both the HUD and instrument cluster.

The left tube driver assistance view has an “analog” speedo (as well as a small triangle symbol showing the speed of the car in front of you). @Slappy_G

 

[Hirschaj]

2) that you cannot close the trunk remotely. There are physical buttons to close it on the trunk, so why couldn’t they have the fob close it or a button/function on the PCM?

There are buttons to open and close the tailgate on the CT center console display. Did they leave this out for the sedan?

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

There’s are buttons to open and close the tailgate on the CT center console display. Did they leave this out for the sedan?

They’re one click away, not direct buttons.

 

[TDinDC]

While it does not drive me crazy, I have noticed that the ACC/Innodrive does not always handle heavy traffic at high speeds (aka I-95) well.

Imagine that you were driving along with your speed set at, say, 90 mph. You approach a heavy traffic zone created by a few cars driving at or near the speed limit (65 mph) but refusing to move to the right despite there being plenty of opportunities to do so, and yet there are other cars doing approximately the speed limit in the middle and far right lanes . . . which creates a moving bottleneck.

So, as you come up on one of these moving bottlenecks, the Taycan correctly decelerates and holds position. Now imagine that the lane next to you starts moving faster, but not orders of magnitude faster (e.g., your lane is doing 65 mph and the neighboring lane is doing 70 mph). Since there is relatively heavy traffic, there is not a huge amount of spacing between cars (e.g., one-bar distance on ACC).

The issue is that when you turn on your turn signal and initiate the lane change in a relatively gentle and predictable way (e.g., not the BMW method), the Taycan will begin to rapidly accelerate in the middle of the lane change, presumably because the sensor is between the two rows of cars. This happens regularly, which makes you tap the brakes and shut off ACC/Innodrive until you are in the new lane, at which point you can resume.

Not great: seems like the breadth of the sensor area should be a bit wider.

I experienced this phenomena again this weekend, and this time it didn't stop even when I was behind the other car in the new lane (e.g., the car continued to accelerate). Not too comforting. It's also annoying because I want to use ACC/innodrive more in heavy traffic, so don't particularly want to shut it off to resolve issue.

I also experienced a perhaps related issue that I guess could be resolved by shutting off crash detection. As you come down Canal Road to take the sharp right onto Whitehurst Freeway just before Key Bridge, there are concrete barriers at the far end of the lane (there is no shoulder) and two lanes that turn right without any signal or stop signs or yields. Yesterday, I was in the left-hand lane and taking this corner aggressively when the car intervened and slammed on the brakes briefly right after I began the turn. I guess it thought I was going to crash into some curb or obstacle (maybe the concrete barriers, but they are farther into the turn) rather than make the turn, but the intervention itself made it more likely that I actually would not make the corner. Fortunately, I do not panic easily and completed the turn, but it was very unsettling. Will not take this turn in as spirited of a manner next time. I imagine the driver in the right-hand lane thought I was unhinged or drunk . . .

à propos of nothing, I am continually amazed at how we as humans misperceive or misremember so much in our lives. It wasn't until I looked at this corner in Google maps that I realized the walls start much farther into the turn than I remember them. If you are taking the corner at speed and looking ahead, I guess perception moves them closer to corner entry (or at least I do). Happened all the time when going back to look at data and video from racing. You swear you are doing X but the data says you really are doing X - 10% or X + 10%. Very interesting.

 

[Archimedes]

TD, I commented on this a few months ago, as I think this is a massive flaw in the ACC system. I now only use ACC when I’m staying in one lane of traffic. Strange that the ACC on my $33,000 GTI doesn’t do this…

 

[or1]

The charge planner is not exactly a joy to use. It can even be really silly. I entered a 200 kW charger as my destination today. It proposed to stop for one minute at another fast charger on the way, to add 6% state of charge, so as to arrive at «my» charger with 22% instead of 16%. Arriving at a charger with 16% is fine with me. When I deleted the one-minute stop, it informed me that the charge planner would be disabled.

Driving on, my remaining range goes below 75 km and the car offers to navigate to a charger! Even though that is what it is doing already (of which it should definitely be aware).

I also observed again later today that when calculating a route, It often suggests that I choose Range mode, to save a minute or two of driving time, but expects to consume MORE energy doing it.

 

[magnitude]

The charge planner is not exactly a joy to use. It can even be really silly. I entered a 200 kW charger as my destination today. It proposed to stop for one minute at another fast charger on the way, to add 6% state of charge, so as to arrive at «my» charger with 22% instead of 16%. Arriving at a charger with 16% is fine with me. When I deleted the one-minute stop, it informed me that the charge planner would be disabled.

I don’t think that’s incorrect though, as you instructed the planner that you want to arrive at your destination with at least 20% charge. I’m not sure I’d be too happy if the planner would ignore my instructions if the destination is a charger.

What I would do here is either set the planner to, say, 30%, so that it knows it’s alright in this case to arrive at the charger with 22%, or just do what I usually do: Ignore the charging stop in the middle and keep driving (that only works if the charging stop is clearly “oh the way” anywhere though, and there’s not a much shorter route available without it).

 

[whitex]

The left tube driver assistance view has an “analog” speedo (as well as a small triangle symbol showing the speed of the car in front of you). @Slappy_G

Thanks. I never noticed the assistance screen has the speedo around the edge as I only tried it once before for few seconds - left tube is partially obscured by the steering wheel or my hands, so I just use it for tire pressures (which came handy during by long trip, as I caught a flat before the car did). That said, I tried it today, and it suffers from the same low refresh rate problem - it does not interpolate based on time and/or acceleration, it just jumps the same way the digits do, i.e. it's not smooth.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

That said, I tried it today, and it suffers from the same low refresh rate problem - it does not interpolate based on time and/or acceleration, it just jumps the same way the digits do, i.e. it's not smooth.

I never noticed, so either my car is very slow, or I'm holding it wrong. (or both.) That said, it's almost like the two displays are driven by the same controller.. ? with a too-low-for-this refresh rate.

 

[TDinDC]

Ok, this is as much of a question as a complaint (but it is a complaint).

I assume that it is impossible to change settings so that the bright overhead airbag indicator lights can shut off when everything is working as designed (i.e., no lights when passenger airbag is on because there is weight in passenger seat or when airbag is off because no weight in passenger seat).

I would understand a warning light if airbags are off but there is weight in the seat, but I don’t get why they need to be on at any other time.

a warning light that is constantly on, particularly when all is well, loses its effectiveness as a warning light.

and it’s distracting and ugly.

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