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Tesla Model 3: car cancels cruise to UNAVAILABLE during highway curve #37795

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@sshane

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On Tesla Model 3, the car's drive inverter (DI) unexpectedly set DI_cruiseState to UNAVAILABLE while taking a highway curve at ~100 km/h, causing openpilot to disengage. No driver input, no openpilot fault, no panda blocked messages.

Route

https://connect.comma.ai/dffcf1de8723a20f/000000b5--9de0ab8677/777/803

Log analysis

Timeline:

-5.0s  angle=0.8°   v=122.7 km/h  — straight road, engaged
-1.5s  angle=-3.5°  v=108.6 km/h  — entering turn, decelerating
-0.8s  angle=-7.6°  v=103.9 km/h  — deepest part of curve (~7.6° steering)
 0.00s DISENGAGE — cruiseState.available=False, accFaulted=False
+0.18s steerTempUnavailable (EPAS went EAC_INHIBITED after cruise dropped)

What was NOT the cause:

  • steeringDisengage=False — no hands-on-level override, no high angle rate safety fault
  • steerFaultTemporary=False, steerFaultPermanent=False
  • brakePressed=False, gasPressed=False, steeringPressed=False
  • stockAeb=False, stockLkas=False, invalidLkasSetting=False
  • accFaulted=False — not a cruise FAULT, DI went straight to UNAVAILABLE
  • Panda did not block any messages

Events at disengage:

+0.00s  wrongCarMode        [noEntry]
+0.00s  pcmDisable          []
+0.18s  steerTempUnavailable [noEntry, softDisable]

The root cause is the car's drive inverter setting cruise to UNAVAILABLE (not FAULT, not STANDBY). The EPAS going to EAC_INHIBITED 0.18s later was a consequence, not the cause.

Hypothesis

Possible ESC/traction control intervention during the curve at highway speed caused the DI to cancel cruise. Would need to check raw CAN on ESP_status (0x145) and ESP_B (0x155) for stability/traction control activation flags around the disengage moment — rlogs are not uploaded for this route.

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