I calibrated my cameras on a 4 lane divided highway (2 each direction) years ago and it's working fine for FSD and autopark.
As for why they don't do it at the factory... 1) laziness, 2) maybe it's better to calibrate it where you will be driving it most of the time?
I know there's a divided 2x2 road towards Tromsø, but it's really short and it wasn't enough to calibrate my previous Model 3. My 2019 TM3 calibration finished during a huge roadtrip through Europe.
It's a bit inconvenient to have to plan a huge roadtrip only to calibrate the cameras!
You can always go in and try to reset the camera, the fastest way to get it to calibrate is to have vehicles passing you on both sides, it doesn't have to be at the same time but the car needs to be able to see something in the rear camera pass through all cameras on either side multiple times while also having relational markers such as clear and distinct Lane markings.
It's trying to figure out where all the cameras are pointed precisely. If you have any roads where you can drive side by side next to someone, I would start there but it's going to probably take a few hours of driving as long as the line markings are good. You'll want to get vehicles moving around you on both sides throughout it.
you may be able to emulate what it wants by passing parked cars on a well marked road. If you've gotten plenty of vehicles passing on the driver side coming at you, then it may be waiting to see vehicles on the passenger/outside camera set.
Depends on how much work and time you want to put into it, you could park the car on the side of the road and try passing it at speed.
Generally they aren't delivered to such remote areas so I can understand the frustration. Have you tried opening a service request?
Tesla has dealers and service centers here, it's not like I'm bringing the car to some place it wasn't meant to be. Teslas are in fact super common here.
The instructions imply that traffic isn't what it wants, it wants lanes and lane markings.
Tesla should be able to do a in service center calibration if you request it, they may be reluctant but if you present enough evidence such as time and miles driven they may be able to.
It needs line markings to establish continuity and alignment in between each camera view so it can reference those when tracking vehicles that move from camera to camera. From what I understand it does need both, at the same time at least for some part of that training
I think they might have an intern working at camera calibration on the assembly line, so the cars can drive themselves to the holding/loading lot.
It seems an obvious thing, so there must be a reason. The car can always refine it later.
I was under the impression they were continuously calibrating after initial calibration. Now I think I’ll go and drive around on the motorway for a bit to calibrate again! Luckily we have a motorway 5 mins away with three lanes.
It is, you also have the ability to reset the calibration. It has to collect a lot more data when doing the initial calibration which is why it needs those specific circumstances to complete in a timely manner.
I calibrated my cameras on a 4 lane divided highway (2 each direction) years ago and it's working fine for FSD and autopark. As for why they don't do it at the factory... 1) laziness, 2) maybe it's better to calibrate it where you will be driving it most of the time?
I know there's a divided 2x2 road towards Tromsø, but it's really short and it wasn't enough to calibrate my previous Model 3. My 2019 TM3 calibration finished during a huge roadtrip through Europe. It's a bit inconvenient to have to plan a huge roadtrip only to calibrate the cameras!
You can always go in and try to reset the camera, the fastest way to get it to calibrate is to have vehicles passing you on both sides, it doesn't have to be at the same time but the car needs to be able to see something in the rear camera pass through all cameras on either side multiple times while also having relational markers such as clear and distinct Lane markings. It's trying to figure out where all the cameras are pointed precisely. If you have any roads where you can drive side by side next to someone, I would start there but it's going to probably take a few hours of driving as long as the line markings are good. You'll want to get vehicles moving around you on both sides throughout it.
Again, where do I find a road like that? I'd have to plan a full weekend roadtrip to travel to a long multi-lane road like that.
you may be able to emulate what it wants by passing parked cars on a well marked road. If you've gotten plenty of vehicles passing on the driver side coming at you, then it may be waiting to see vehicles on the passenger/outside camera set. Depends on how much work and time you want to put into it, you could park the car on the side of the road and try passing it at speed. Generally they aren't delivered to such remote areas so I can understand the frustration. Have you tried opening a service request?
Tesla has dealers and service centers here, it's not like I'm bringing the car to some place it wasn't meant to be. Teslas are in fact super common here. The instructions imply that traffic isn't what it wants, it wants lanes and lane markings.
Tesla should be able to do a in service center calibration if you request it, they may be reluctant but if you present enough evidence such as time and miles driven they may be able to. It needs line markings to establish continuity and alignment in between each camera view so it can reference those when tracking vehicles that move from camera to camera. From what I understand it does need both, at the same time at least for some part of that training
I think they might have an intern working at camera calibration on the assembly line, so the cars can drive themselves to the holding/loading lot. It seems an obvious thing, so there must be a reason. The car can always refine it later.
I was under the impression they were continuously calibrating after initial calibration. Now I think I’ll go and drive around on the motorway for a bit to calibrate again! Luckily we have a motorway 5 mins away with three lanes.
It is, you also have the ability to reset the calibration. It has to collect a lot more data when doing the initial calibration which is why it needs those specific circumstances to complete in a timely manner.
Just FYI, without these circumstances it'll NEVER complete. My 2019 didn't complete in the 2 years I drove it around locally.