2023 Holiday Update

[Durzel]

That's intentional, it replaces the beep of the horn when the car locks. When locking the car you might want to walk away from the car without looking back and know it has locked itself. When the car unlocks you should be close to it and you can see and even hear it has unlocked because the mirrors unfold or simply because you can enter the car.

Kinda lame though. It’s obviously meant as a gimmicky feature otherwise they would just increase the volume of the existing lock sound, or change it, but not provide the option for anyone to upload their own one.

 

[Sparkeur]

Nothing of interest to me there.

Trip planner on mobile - not bad, could be useful. Blind spot, yep it's OK. The rest, just noise.

 

[sleepydoc]

Lump of coal? Luxury! I got a handful of freezing cold gravel…

I’ll get my coat

Better get your gloves!

 

[sleepydoc]

Nothing of interest to me there.

Trip planner on the app will be nice. Bug fixes? Depends on the bug. This has been the typical holiday update, though. The big thing everyone was always interested in was the light show and games. I never understood the point, either but to each their own.

 

[sleepydoc]

£20 says Tesla just watch Twitter and Facebook to debug their releases.

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do - looking at forums like this and social media posts is probably the most efficient means of gauging what people are experiencing.

 

[WllXM]

Re custom lock sound, do you put the wav file in the partition used by TeslaCam(Sentry) or the one used for Boombox?

 

[redrog]

Trip planner on mobile - not bad, could be useful. Blind spot, yep it's OK. The rest, just noise.

Yes, pretty much this.

Although premium connectivity is starting to look a bit more interesting with traffic, cameras and not having to mess about with my phone for Apple Music, Podcasts and theatre. Almost.

 

[Zilla91]

Did some testing around the speed camera feature;

1. It only displays cameras if you have a route set in the nav
2. There are no audio alerts whatsoever, even if you enable the voice navigation
3. The only visual alerts are the icon on the map and a banner saying there’s a camera coming up on that bit where it displays that it’s preheating the battery if you’re on your way to a Supercharger. It doesn’t actually tell you how close you are to the camera.

All in all it’s typical Tesla, decent idea but crap execution. I’ll be holding on to Waze for now.

 

[Jonnymack74]

So the potential for Autopark after exiting the vehicle is coming.
Probably not in the U.K. thank God.
Used Autopark this morning. 10 spaces with just one car in space 3. I wanted space 6. Car wanted only spaces 2 or 4.

I don’t think so!

Autopark has always done this on my S
Will always look for a spot next to another car and never a spot with space either side

 

[Foxsbiscuits]

Did some testing around the speed camera feature;

1. It only displays cameras if you have a route set in the nav
2. There are no audio alerts whatsoever, even if you enable the voice navigation
3. The only visual alerts are the icon on the map and a banner saying there’s a camera coming up on that bit where it displays that it’s preheating the battery if you’re on your way to a Supercharger. It doesn’t actually tell you how close you are to the camera.

All in all it’s typical Tesla, decent idea but crap execution. I’ll be holding on to Waze for now.

Is there a way to have Waze just give audible alerts for cameras and have it run in the background without using it for navigation? My phone would already be connected and probably playing music.

 

[Zilla91]

Is there a way to have Waze just give audible alerts for cameras and have it run in the background without using it for navigation? My phone would already be connected and probably playing music.

Yeah that's how I use it already, just open up the app and throw it on the charger. If you go into the Waze settings and get it to output the audio as a phone call you'll get alerts irrespective of what audio source you're using in the car.

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[Roy Batty]

Although premium connectivity is starting to look a bit more interesting with traffic

Traffic is not that great, not known about a couple of closed roads that Google Maps knew about, not temporary road closures either, planned shuts both of them. Not sure where Tesla gets its info from, I think traffic comes from other Teslas on the road.

 

[Andywil]

Will they only show if you've got a route planned?

I assume that when it says shows speed cameras on your route that is exactly what it means.

 

[Drew57]

Trip planner on the app will be nice.

I don't rely on the app for locations never mind trips with multiple stops, preferring to share from Apple Maps & then edit/add other locations via the car screen if necessary.

Several times I've planned a location via the app & the car has shown something different whereas if I share from Apple Maps the car nav already finds the correct destination. A case in point was when I used the app for a motorway services but got a shopping list en route from my wife as the app had defaulted to the address of a nearby Waitrose & she saw that notification on our shared Tesla app (& services don't stock a leg of lamb, frozen peas etc).

 

[Foxsbiscuits]

Yeah that's how I use it already, just open up the app and throw it on the charger. If you go into the Waze settings and get it to output the audio as a phone call you'll get alerts irrespective of what audio source you're using in the car.

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Thanks. I will play around with this. There's so many speed changes 30 to 40 and back in nearby areas and I don't wanna be caught out.

I'm on Android so have set it up to open/close when connected to car's Bluetooth. I think Apple offers the same thing now.

 

[FastLaneJB]

Must say just parked the wife’s car up in a dark car park and it accurately drew out all the bays and cars. Only a single test but was impressed. They weren’t wobbling all over the place like I expected they would do.

 

[spooksman]

Must say just parked the wife’s car up in a dark car park and it accurately drew out all the bays and cars. Only a single test but was impressed. They weren’t wobbling all over the place like I expected they would do.

Yeah, I was quite impressed the times I used it today. Makes me a tiny bit jealous that I don’t have it on mine, or at least have the option…

 

[Billbrown1982]

Did some testing around the speed camera feature;

1. It only displays cameras if you have a route set in the nav
2. There are no audio alerts whatsoever, even if you enable the voice navigation
3. The only visual alerts are the icon on the map and a banner saying there’s a camera coming up on that bit where it displays that it’s preheating the battery if you’re on your way to a Supercharger. It doesn’t actually tell you how close you are to the camera.

All in all it’s typical Tesla, decent idea but crap execution. I’ll be holding on to Waze for now.

Oh I honestly didn't think we would even get them on the map over here, I feel more optimistic about it because realistically, adding a audible warning now would be very very simple for Tesla, therefore should only take about 2 years.

But having the cameras on the map at least is certainly a start.

 

[WannabeOwner]

give audible alerts for cameras and have it run in the background without using it for navigation?

I think Waze needs to know where you are going (i.e. if you are turning at the next junction, or not), to decide whether a camera is on your route or not.

 

[Pandinium]

I think Waze needs to know where you are going (i.e. if you are turning at the next junction, or not), to decide whether a camera is on your route or not.

Imagine how easy it would be if we could just have car play