I asked the advisor about tying the user profile to the fob. He told me that Tesla used to do that, but folks would complain as they may grab the wrong fob. I would like to see the feature be something that could be enabled. My Corvette did it. My GMC truck does it. My wife and I never have keys for the same car when we are in the car together. To have the seats and mirror automatically adjust before you get in the car is a nice feature. I would also like to see ALL user settings tied to the user profile. The radio settings, everything. My wife and I have very different tastes in music. Would make that a lot easier if that were just saved with the profile as well. (other cars on the market already do this!)
That's downright absurd and goes beyond bordering on the nonsensical. Taking away an option that the rest of the world has because a few people made mistakes is bad enough. Not enabling it selectively is also bad. But the way this works on any car is that
you have to associate a memory with a fob in the first place! If you have a list of 10 profiles and never associated any of them with a fob, then nobody would get mixed up. There's no way the car can do this on its own because it needs to know which profiles correspond to fobs and which ones don't. That's the way
ALL cars do it. There is no downside. Anybody who doesn't like the feature doesn't have to use it in the first place. They don't have to tie a profile to a fob. Not offering the feature doesn't solve any problem.
I would literally have to walk out of the place to keep myself from asking flat out if the person was just plain stupid.
Sound system settings and everything else could be tied to a profile very easily and some companies have been doing it for a decade or more. The only down side is that if my wife uses the navigator to drop one of my kids off at a friend's house, and then tells me to go pick her up, and it's not in my navigation history, that's a problem. Likewise if I was listening to music and I took turns driving with somebody, I might want the music to stay the same. But that should be the exception and not the rule. Even with other cars, changing sources and returning to a source might be a simple press of a button but Tesla makes it such an ordeal in some cases that it's clear they never considered what it's like to share a car with somebody.
Tesla has been stupid when it comes to taking away promised features because somebody made a mistake. They took away the ability to roll down all the windows with the fob because some people did it by mistake. They could have made it an optional setting. So what did they do with the same fob press? They made it summon the car. You wouldn't want somebody to sit on the fob and roll down the windows in the rain, but it's not too risky if the same action can move the car. What are they thinking? Of course, in the case of summon you can turn it off. But why didn't they do that with the window down function?
