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The most valuable feature of Gravity I Paid for is DDP

iloveyou said:
250 Miles highway with Hands off is relaxing, DDP worthy it. Far behind FSD but Highway relief is the most needed
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100% agree. On long road trips, it’s the difference between arriving at your destination fresh and ready to party vs. fatigued and ready to go to bed.

Point-to-point FSD would be nice and I want it, but I would prioritize making highway hands-free rock solid, first. It’s an easier problem to solve.
 
I've never used FSD before but I feel myself increasingly antsy to just let my car drive most of the time. Having the option to turn on DDPro has made me realize I'm always a little stressed when I drive. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love waking up at 6 AM on a Saturday for a nice joyride, but I really am looking forward to point-to-point.
 
Agree! Few hundred mile trip the past weekend and it was pretty damn smooth most of the trip. That’s all I’m looking for with self driving is the long highway stretches and it’s great at it mostly. Only small complaint I have is that it’s a little too eager to get back out of the passing lane and often ends up jumping right back into it in a few seconds or trapping itself behind an upcoming slow vehicle and the left lane is now too full for it to merge back into
 
The_Don said:
I've never used FSD before but I feel myself increasingly antsy to just let my car drive most of the time. Having the option to turn on DDPro has made me realize I'm always a little stressed when I drive. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love waking up at 6 AM on a Saturday for a nice joyride, but I really am looking forward to point-to-point.
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My advice is to ease into it.

Use DDPro hands-on (even in hands-free mode in the beginning) and apply gentle pressure to keep the car doing what you want it to do. That’s the nice thing about DDPro - you can override without disengaging. You’ll soon get a feel for when you can let DDPro do its thing and when you need to override.

Over time, you’ll understand its limits and you’ll actually be able to focus more on traffic and defensive driving while DDPro is engaged. It’s really astounding how much mental energy goes into staying in lane. DDPro frees up that mental energy for you to be able to focus more on defensive driving.

One thing to note: pay attention to when DDPro is engaged vs. not engaged. I’ve caught myself thinking DDPro was engaged when I forgot to engage it. I’ve driven nearly 9k miles, most of that with DDPro, and I’m used to having it on.

This is where hands-on override practice comes in. I start correcting drift thinking DDPro is acting strangely, only to realize it wasn’t on. Not letting DDPro do something you don’t want it to do is a good habit to get into.

Tesla FSD is still supervised and, as good as it is, people get into trouble when they trust FSD too much. It may work 99% of the time point to point, but it can generate a false sense of security where you are not ready for that 1% failure that can kill you.

Learn the system and work with it, but never trust it (until level 4 is reached).
 
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Saksak said:
One thing to note: pay attention to when DDPro is engaged vs. not engaged. I’ve caught myself thinking DDPro was engaged when I forgot to engage it.
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I also found that it's easier to have Regen in low for when it disengages, gives you time to ease into accelerating again
 
prgarg said:
I also found that it's easier to have Regen in low for when it disengages, gives you time to ease into accelerating again
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Just ease into the accelerator so that the car picks up speed slightly, before turning off DD
 
I’m incredibly disappointed with DDP. I assumed from the chatter that it was an almost FSD. It is not even close. Worse than my Tesla 10 years ago. I took my wife’s Tesla for an errand today instead of my beautiful air, because I love using the FSD. They should just license it from Tesla.
 
davepwiebe said:
I’m incredibly disappointed with DDP. I assumed from the chatter that it was an almost FSD. It is not even close. Worse than my Tesla 10 years ago. I took my wife’s Tesla for an errand today instead of my beautiful air, because I love using the FSD. They should just license it from Tesla.
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If Tesla FSD is your priority today, I agree - you’ll be disappointed in DDPro. Most of the forum posts are about DDPro highway lane keeping being good enough in light of all the other features of the Gravity: range, performance suspension, comfort, capacity, etc. It depends on what you prioritize.

We’re all hoping Lucid takes far less than the 10 years it took Tesla to achieve L2++. China is already there. Hopefully Lucid+nvidia will get there soon.
 
davepwiebe said:
I’m incredibly disappointed with DDP. I assumed from the chatter that it was an almost FSD. It is not even close. Worse than my Tesla 10 years ago. I took my wife’s Tesla for an errand today instead of my beautiful air, because I love using the FSD. They should just license it from Tesla.
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DDP is mid tier ADAS yeah. Not sure why you thought it was almost FSD level though?
 
One thing I noticed was how it behaves in the right lane, when new cars are joining the highway. As a human driver I anticipate that is going to happen and slow down a bit to let them in. DD2Pro keeps trying to achieve/maintain its set cruise control speed until the merging cars are actually visible in the front sensors. Then it decelerates abruptly.
 
Hammerthyme said:
One thing I noticed was how it behaves in the right lane, when new cars are joining the highway. As a human driver I anticipate that is going to happen and slow down a bit to let them in. DD2Pro keeps trying to achieve/maintain its set cruise control speed until the merging cars are actually visible in the front sensors. Then it decelerates abruptly.
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I'm in the "I wanna DRIVE the car" camp...already in the other lane to "let them in" having merged over in anticipation when I spot other vehicles on the onramp (which I constantly scour looking for cops anyway!) ...not much patience for the slower reaction of most ADAS features I guess.
Love how smooth and how precise the speed control of the Gravity is on High Regen as well.
 
I love driving too but there's no fun in long, boring stretches of highway. I save the fun driving for better roads!
 
I just used it to do Drive Assist lane keeping hands on cruise and stop and go traffic from my dentist appointment about 12 miles on a big 4 lane suburban road....Definitely takes a good amount of effort off bothering with rush hour traffic.
 
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