2019.40.50 beginning to roll

[Jason71]

It'll probably work perfectly if you can do either a Californian or South African-American accent.

Sadly my South African American accent vocabulary is limited to words and phrases that appeared in Lethal Weapon 2, and saying. "Riggs", "Murtaugh" and "Diplomatic Immunity" probably isn't going to help me much.

 

[pdk42]

It'll probably work perfectly if you can do either a Californian or South African-American accent.

Ya, y'all!

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Ya, y'all!

I know you're in Leam*, but what's your accent?

American-centric voice systems are likely to get confused by some accents. American call has a longer A, so more like English Carl, without any Southern W-ed L. Saying Carl could be more successful.

* Ex-pat who went to Warwick Uni.

 

[jebinc]

release notes

TESLA_saves_lives on Twitter

Seems like we are missing several pages of release notes as Elon mentioned some games and other goodies to put under the tree. Might anyone have the other missing pages????

 

[pdk42]

I know you're in Leam*, but what's your accent?

American-centric voice systems are likely to get confused by some accents. American call has a longer A, so more like English Carl, without any Southern W-ed L. Saying Carl could be more successful.

* Ex-pat who went to Warwick Uni.

Well, I live in Leamington, but I'm an ex Scouser! I'm amazed any voice recognition can figure out what I say! Sometimes my wife struggles to understand me (either that or she's ignoring me!).

 

[cjh75]

Would be nice if this update addressed the usb audio not resuming, will wait and see.

 

[NorfolkMustard]

pic of visualisations perhaps

Tesla Raj on Twitter

 

[NorfolkMustard]

Camp mode:

TESLA_saves_lives on Twitter

"Your car can now maintain airflow, temperature, interior lighting, as well as play music, and power devices when Camp Mode is enabled.

To enable Camp Mode, tap the fan icon at the bottom of the touchscreen and set Keep Climate On to CAMP while your car is in PARK

 

[ACarneiro]

Interior lightning? Is this another upgrade we weren’t told about? Connected to Sentry Mode and the burglar alarm, perhaps?

 

[CMc1]

Honking horn will now save clips and additional driver profiles settings are saved.

From Tesmania:

SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS
The latest update includes features like Voice Keyboard, Voice Commands, and other capabilities under a category titled Phone Improvements that will make Tesla cars safer for the driver and other vehicles on the road.

VOICE KEYBOARD AND OTHER PHONE IMPROVEMENTS
With Voice Keyboard, Tesla Owners can access their messages on their phones. They can also write and send a message through the Voice Keyboard. To access Voice Keyboard, owners must tap the microphone icon on the keyboard.

According to the company's release notes, messages can now be read out loud to Tesla owners while they’re driving as well. Notes for this feature read as follows:

“You can now read and respond to text messages using your right scroll wheel button. When a new message is received, press the right scroll wheel button to have your text message read out loud and press again to respond by speaking out loud.”

VOICE COMMAND
The Model 3’s technology received the lowest score in Edmunds scorecard for 2020 Top Best EV of the Year because of its Media Control Unit. According to Edmunds, the Model 3’s Media Control Unit could be a safety hazard because drivers would need to take their eyes off the road to use it.

Voice Command in Tesla’s latest update solves Edmunds’ critique for the Model 3. The notes for the 2019.40.50 update explained the primary use of Voice Command.

“Voice commands have been rebuilt to understand natural language. For this initial release, we focused on commands that minimize having to touch the screen so you can keep your eyes on the road…Anonymized voice commands that are not recognized will be captured for further train and improve the system in future software updates.”

The following are some phrases Tesla Owners can use under Voice Command:

• Climate: “Set the Temperature to 70.” Or “Turn on the passenger seat heater.”
• Vehicle: “Adjust my right mirror.” Or “Open the glove box.”
• Navigation: “Where are the nearby supercharging stations.” Or “Let’s go to work.”
• Media: “Play the Beatles.” Or “Search for Joe Rogan podcast.”
• Communication: “Call David Lewis.” Or “Send a text message to Evan.”
• Other: “Show me the rear camera.” Or “Open Autopilot settings.”

TESLA FUNCTIONALITY
Besides safety improvements, Tesla’s latest update also released a couple of features that would increase its vehicles' functionality. Under this category are Save Dashcam Clips on Honk, Driver Profiles, Camp Mode, and Driving Visualization Improvements.

SAVE DASHCAM CLIPS ON HONK
This feature does exactly as its name suggests. With this feature, Tesla owners won’t need to save Dashcam footage manually at all times. All they need to do is honk. This would allow Tesla to ensure that incidents on the road (at least those that trigger a driver to honk at another vehicle or person), are automatically saved.

DRIVER PROFILES
Driver Profiles seems similar to a feature introduced for Ford’s all-electric crossover, the Mustang Mach-E. During the Mach-E’s unveiling, the leader of the group in charge of the Mustang’s tech briefly discussed a feature that would change the settings of the car according to the person in the driver’s seat. With this recent update, Tesla appears to have rolled out a comparable feature to its fleet.

Tesla's Driver Profiles are described as follows: “Additional navigation settings are now saved to your driver profile such as volume levels for navigation voice guidance as well as traffic display settings

CAMP MODE
This feature is perfect for people who stay in their vehicles a lot. With Camp Mode, Tesla owners could rest and even spend the night in the comfort of their all-electric cars while parked.

“Your car can now maintain airflow, temperature, interior lighting, as well as play music, and power devices when Camp Mode is enabled. To enable Camp Mode, tap the fan icon at the bottom of the touchscreen and set Keep Climate On to CAMP while your car is in PARK. Big batteries rock.”

DRIVING VISUALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS
Under this feature, Tesla writes the following: “The driving visualization can now display additional objects which include stoplights, stop signs and select road marking…”

These driving visualization improvements may be an indication that Tesla is closer to achieving its Full Self-Driving capability for inner-city streets. Elon Musk did mention an FSD preview in Tesla’s Holiday Update. It is unclear if this particular update is the one Musk was talking about in his tweet. However, it certainly has the features and capabilities he mentioned.

FUN ADDITIONS
Other than the features discussed above, Tesla also released a couple of fun additions. Twitch arrived for Tesla Theater, and Stardew Valley and Backgammonwas released for Tesla Arcade.

TRAX v0.1, an app that allows Tesla users to create music in their cars, was also released in update 2019.40.50. TRAX is, in a way, the audio equivalent of Tesla's Sketchpad, as the feature allows owners to create music from the comforts of their cars.

In general, Tesla’s update says a couple of things about the automaker. It tells Tesla owners that safety is still a priority for the company. It also shows Teslas functional as they are safe. Lastly, the update reveals that Teslas are lots of fun to own, just as Elon Musk intended.

 

[Rooster6655]

release notes

TESLA_saves_lives on Twitter

hopefully I’ll be able to “phone home” now vs “cupcakes syndrome”

 

[ramonneke]

That FSD preview... As this is the EU sub forum... Don't expect any of that to show here. We didn't even get the traffic light warning....

Only interesting thing is the notifications and the text to speech which probably only works for English so most Europeans will miss out on that too.

 

[Roy W.]

Would it really be easier to enable voice command with the 2 buttons and then speak versus just pushing the button on the left arm?

Yes. I’d like to be able to select the wiper speed using voice commands.

The Auto setting has gone from way too insensitive to way too sensitive for me. If I have the wipers on Auto I’m often having to fumble with the screen to select a slow set speed, because the Auto setting is wiping away with virtually no rain.

 

[TestPilot]

Hello smart summon!!!!

 

[MrBadger]

2019.40.50.1 beginning to roll globally at decent rate - 40.50 probably early access by looks of it

TeslaFi.com Firmware Tracker

 

[ivangr]

anyone notice that theatre now requires a wifi connection on the SR+???

 

[pow216]

I think it's a full deployment

 

[CMc1]

A few voice commands you can try:

“Show me tire pressures”
“Open the HVAC controls”
“Show seat heaters”
“Open display settings”
“Open energy graph”
“Zoom in/out on the map”
“Set wipers to auto /1/2/3”
“Show the odometer”
“Turn on rear defroster”
“Turn on windshield defroster”
“Show media”
“Adjust mirrors”
“Adjust steering wheel”
“Open phone app”
“Show text messages”
"open Google.com"
"Open rear camera"
"Close rear camera"

 

[Spacey73]

Hello smart summon!!!!View attachment 492326

Had that for ages even on my AP1 Model S

 

[TestPilot]

Had that for ages even on my AP1 Model S

I'm in the UK, which is a useful piece of information I missed out.

Edit
Oh, I see you are too. WTF.

Are you sure you mean Smart Summon, not regular summon?