As a former Tesla owner I'm happier with DAPP and TJA (Assist Plus) than I thought I'd be. Many of the things that I heard and read about aren't exactly true and I was afraid that it was going to be a disappointing experience compared to Tesla's AutoPilot. First, activating it is fairly simple, you just press the Cruise button. It activates immediately. If you want to set the speed to the speed limit you just press set next. Depending on your seat and steering wheel position it can be a little hard to see the screen info but if you have HUD it puts it there too, so another reason I'm now a big fan of HUD. For the freeway I drive on for my commute (the 210 in Southern Cal) it recognizes that I've met the conditions for Hands Free immediately and every time, so that becomes the 3rd button press, the Mode button and then the lights on my steering wheel turn green and it's completely activated. Not as simple as Tesla's simple turn on but still pretty easy. When traffic goes over 40MPH there's a warning and the steering wheel lights turn yellow and then you just have to lightly keep a few fingers on the wheel. Tesla is hands free at all speeds but that probably isn't as safe and it makes you jiggle the wheel periodically which is more annoying than just keeping part of your hand on the wheel. I do wish the speed ceiling for TJA was 50 instead of 40 because stop and go traffic often goes over 40 and then constantly slows to a crawl again. But here's the part I've been pleasantly surprised by, after it goes over 40 and deactivates, it automatically reactivates when traffic slows to 40 or below again without making me press the mode button again! It only doesn't behave that way if it's been a long time over 40 or the speed significantly increased but so far every time I've been in the 50's for a minute or two and then slowed again it has reactivated on its own. The starts and stops have also been a lot smoother than my Tesla but going around curves has not. The i4 definitely gets a little wobbly/uncertain when the freeway curves. But I spent 35 minutes this morning in complete stop and go traffic and it was hands and feet free the whole time which reduces so much stress so I'm really happy with it.
PAP. I wasn't originally planning on getting this because I don't parallel park very often but lots of people here said it was worth the $700 for the cameras. They were right, having the surround view is very helpful when backing out of tight spaces or being next to a curb. But yesterday I had to go to Pasadena (to go to the Tesla store to deactivate my account) which required parallel parking so I thought I'd try out the automatic parking. OMG, it worked perfectly. I was terrified the whole time but it got me into a somewhat tight space and no damage to my rims!
PAP. I wasn't originally planning on getting this because I don't parallel park very often but lots of people here said it was worth the $700 for the cameras. They were right, having the surround view is very helpful when backing out of tight spaces or being next to a curb. But yesterday I had to go to Pasadena (to go to the Tesla store to deactivate my account) which required parallel parking so I thought I'd try out the automatic parking. OMG, it worked perfectly. I was terrified the whole time but it got me into a somewhat tight space and no damage to my rims!
