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2023 Holiday Update
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Zilla91
Active Member
Oh, Not seasonal enough for you I guess..
Maybe Noddy Holder screaming 'It's Christmas' at full volume?
I posted recently in the thread below about stitching & filling in spaces which aren't covered by cameras so it is 100% possible to do without having cameras pointed everywhere. The Vauxhall/Opel/Stellantis implementation (second video in the post) uses purely the rear camera to fill in the sides.
[UK] Cool car tech
Thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could post videos and articles about cool car tech that’s out there. Please try to appreciate the tech rather than trying to point score or side track the topic I’ll start with this parking recorder feature
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MrBadger
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Elon mode apparently shouts “go **** yourself” on lock.
As much as “custom lock sounds” might not appear to be that interesting, I think it might actually portend something else.I noticed Ashdeman posted in another thread an extra feature, so googled a bit and found….
Custom Lock Sounds
Replace the horn lock sound of your vehicle with another sound—like a screaming goat
High Fidelity Park Assist
See a 3D reconstruction of your surroundings while parking
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This last feature will be “interesting” based on my experience of Vision parking. But is one of the few updates I’m genuinely after and think could be worthwhile.
It‘s been speculated that Tesla would like to move into the APP STORE type of revenue model for MRR to boost valuation and margin. Actually putting in an APP store is fairly complicated and risky, especially for a product like a moving motor vehicle.
Years before we had APP stores on smartphones, one of the primary incremental revenue items in the mobile phone market, were RINGTONES. Sold by third parties, mobile phone providers, carriers, etc. High margin, low cost, low risk. People could buy individual items, packs with multiple or have custom ringtones created.
This might just be Teslas way of dipping their toe into a makers market or third party market for adding tones/sounds/chimes to cars in a way that is lower risk, while gaining some insight into usage, demand and revenue management. Before going full Monty into APP STORE.
Or, it’s just some engineers pet project that Elon green lit. Either way, I’m eager to be able to someday have Hal tell me “there’s a message for you Dave” when I have incoming texts.
Remember how we used to pay for ringtones on our phones 20 years ago!
I hope nobody's stupid enough to do this again with a car lock sound in 2024...
WannabeOwner
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In lieu of a "rage" emoji, I so badly want to "disagree" this post.Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Crazy Frog
sleepydoc
Well-Known Member
Agreed - you can use Spotify or Tune-in for podcasts but Tune-in is total crap and Spotify requires and additional subscription fee and is still inferior to Apple's app.Apple Podcasts and speed camera warnings (if it actually works and is as accurate as Waze) are game changers. For the first time I won’t be pining for CarPlay.
Fair play, after a year of underwhelming updates this is actually really good
Apparently you will be able to upload your own sound file (max 1mb and in .WAV format
)Replied to another post but apparently you will be able to upload your own sound file to use - so not about revenue from folk buying ringtones I guess.
Niffty951
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A couple of these are really exciting for me. Speed cameras on nav means no longer running my phone nav in parallel and being able to use the trip planner in the mobile app would be a fantastic upgrade. Especially if driving in convoy with someone/meeting people, I want to see in advance where and when my car wants to charge so I can re-direct it if for example I'm with a non-tesla electric car and it needs to be a Supercharger at a services where they can charge too
This is great, i’ll be able to tell my wife to turn off the lights everytime she unlocks the car and to not park so close to the wall when she gets homeApparently you will be able to upload your own sound file (max 1mb and in .WAV format
FYI the trip planner in the mobile app is already there, go to Location and navigate to somewhere then there's an Edit Trip link that lets you enter waypoints and send it all to the car.
Mobile App v4.27.5 on iPhone, Car on 2023.44.1
Mobile App v4.27.5 on iPhone, Car on 2023.44.1
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