Gravity Test Drive writeup

DeaneG said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that Dream Drive Pro 2 will not approach FSD's capabilities. But it will be a great companion on long highway drives.
Gravity is a much more capable, sophisticated, comfortable, and practical vehicle than the Model X - outside of FSD.

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Good to hear. And just what I wanted to hear. We will be getting rid of the family Model X and replacing it with the Gravity Tesla FSD be damned.

Regarding the door closure and auto close....I played with the doors quite a bit in the showroom

1. Doors feel solid and close with a nice thunk. They are heavy in a good way. They seem very high end to me coming from a Subaru.
2. Front door's first stay open detent is fairly far out. If you gently soft swing the door open it will swing back to you. This will be low key annoying for a small percentage of neurotic owners.
3. If you just close the door like a normal human there is no catch and then soft close. It just closes.
4. You have to close the doors insanely softly for the soft close to kick in. The weight and inertia of the doors closes then with even a light tug and goes right through the soft close. So lightly in fact that if I were to open and close the doors with normal use I can't imagine the soft close even becoming active more than 1% of door closes. I even tried to modify the effort I used to close the doors and it was hard to pull so lightly that the soft close performed its action.
5. The soft close has a catch and then click sound when it closes but it's not distracting and doesn't sound cheap or anything. Never been in a rolls Royce but the sound is completely fine and somewhat reassuring that I can be more comfortable believing it's fully closed.

I actually prefer the dream drive on my gravity to the newer versions of ap. It’s for highway only and I’m totally fine with that. I probably drive 700–800 miles a week with it engaged and I can confirm it has less issues than Tesla. No phantom breaks and it always errors in the same spot so easy to be ready for. Tsla ap can be hard

zoomzoom said:

2. Front door's first stay open detent is fairly far out. If you gently soft swing the door open it will swing back to you. This will be low key annoying for a small percentage of neurotic owners.

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I've been called neurotic, but the Air front doors have been driving me crazy for several years. If you push the door hard enough to go the furtherest detent, it usually bounces back off the stop hard to enough to sail right past the prior detent and back onto you. If you don't push it hard enough, it won't hold at a detent and falls back on you.

I had so much else on my mind during the test drive visit that I didn't think to check the Gravity doors. I'm just hoping the position and depth of the door detents is one of those Air peccadillos that got addressed with the Gravity.

tjhappel said:

I actually prefer the dream drive on my gravity to the newer versions of ap. It’s for highway only and I’m totally fine with that. I probably drive 700–800 miles a week with it engaged and I can confirm it has less issues than Tesla. No phantom breaks and it always errors in the same spot so easy to be ready for. Tsla ap can be hard

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In a recent video review of the Gravity, the reviewer said he was in a Model Y the night before that had FSD engaged when the car drove through a fence. He discusses it at 0:25:

The doors on the Air are quite annoying the detents are way too soft. I have an upsloping driveway. Keeping the door open while getting in or out is a chore. With the low roof . At least once a month the door closes on my leg.

tjhappel said:

I actually prefer the dream drive on my gravity to the newer versions of ap. It’s for highway only and I’m totally fine with that. I probably drive 700–800 miles a week with it engaged and I can confirm it has less issues than Tesla. No phantom breaks and it always errors in the same spot so easy to be ready for. Tsla ap can be hard

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Thanks this is helpful. Does it only do mapped roads or any highway?

hmp10 said:

I've been called neurotic, but the Air front doors have been driving me crazy for several years. If you push the door hard enough to go the furtherest detent, it usually bounces back off the stop hard to enough to sail right past the prior detent and back onto you. If you don't push it hard enough, it won't hold at a detent and falls back on you.

I had so much else on my mind during the test drive visit that I didn't think to check the Gravity doors. I'm just hoping the position and depth of the door detents is one of those Air peccadillos that got addressed with the Gravity.

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I agree totally!!!! Have the exact same issue and I did in fact check with gravity. Seems resolved or at least substantially better.