Undock via a defined pathway when GPS L2 count is low

Heh. One more road trip and the DOT will make me put plates on this thing. :wink:

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Found mine parked pretty close to the mailbox at the road today. He was inbounds so no harm no fowl. He simply gentle contacted his way around and off he went.

Good boy Yarbo! Good boy!

Or is it that’ll do…

Bryan,

Offhand, do you know if anyone tried putting a series of areas IN the road, with pathways back to safety, so that when the core takes a stroll and GPS decides it’s out of the area, it’d have a path back from the 60mph zone? Instead of just stalling out when it discovers it is out of bounds. Did anyone try it and did it work? Or does the core decide it is in the wrong area and just stop, regardless of having a pathway back.

Due to how pathways are presently chosen, I’d think I’d make several smaller area/pathways along the road so that the core can always pick the single pathway that is nearest. If the idea works.

Interesting thought. My guess is that it would know that it is not in the area that it should be working and navigate back to where it should be (since it has a way to get there). I think it wouldn’t throw up an out of bounds error in this case and indeed would at least let it get out of danger on its own.

Could also enable Patrol mode and play chicken with on coming traffic.

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Thank you for your honest and thoughtful feedback — we truly appreciate it.

I’ll definitely bring this up with our team so we can improve our communication in situations like this moving forward.

To clarify, yes — we did temporarily pause the rollout after identifying a rare corner-case bug during the process. Our team has been working hard over the past week to address it.

The new firmware rollout will begin today and is expected to be completed within three days. We’ll be posting an official announcement shortly with all the details.

Thank you again for your patience and continued support — it means a lot to us.

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