They removed ultrasonic parking sensors which were critical to the function those features for detecting close by objects. Their plan was to solve that problem with Tesla Vision using cameras only. Clearly that won’t be as accurate as ultrasonic sensors and who knows if it ever will be.
…… but none of those features is particularly useful/practical in real world situations. Of the three, I can use auto park sucessfully when backing into a supercharger space maybe 15% of the time. I quit trying to use summon/smart summon after a few attempts …. Some of which were dramatic fails.
Thanks for the explanation. I kind of thought that was the case, that the older vehicles still had this function I honestly might have just gotten a used vehicle if I'd understood better. But I inquired about it the man at the service center said that used wasn't good because I just couldn't trust how the battery had been treated by the previous owner. Which now, possibly was disingenuous? The learning curve here is so intense and I feel like they kind of count on that, because why would someone buy a new car that's actually not as functional as the older versions? I mean I remember having to accept that I was buying a car without a certain functionality but it made it sound like it was literally temporary. Plus, when you're all pumped up about your new purchase it's not the time you're going to say, well hold on a minute..
Okay thanks I find this very interesting and I did wonder about that. I would like the chance to try them out myself and realize that I wouldn't actually use them in reality. But to have them taken away from my 3 months trial period feels rude. You know it's just one of those things that you want to play around with before you decide that heck I would never use this anyway.
Okay thanks for this it makes sense of the warnings I'm getting that I couldn't figure out why I was getting them. Also the dry wiper thing which just seems incredulous to me. I mean it's not even like a dewey morning or anything. I also sometimes get this warning in the daytime when my camera does appear to be clear. Honestly confusing. I'm still getting used to all this. Really hoping that Elon figures this stuff out soon.Yup, brand new 2023 Model Y here, and after dark we sometimes get the "blocked or blinded" warning for the passenger side pillar camera. Glass is clean as the day it was made, camera's not blocked, no bright light shining directly into the camera, no rain. Just a dark street after sunset. Foolish cameras, making their problem my problem. It's not my fault Tesla's cameras can't see in the dark.
There were other Chinese brands that were able to do vision only parking even better than Tesla's USS based implementation (which was not anywhere close to the state of the art), but they had actual parking cameras (ones that are aimed at the ground). Tesla's problem is the front camera has a huge blind spot, and they have not tuned their occupancy network to be able to estimate the front accurate enough yet for parking (although it's fine for normal driving). It seems like something that is low priority for them however, as they have much more development focused on FSD.
Because the new Y does not have the ultrasonic sensors. The new 3 also does not have ultrasonic sensors.
No. You are mixing up radar with ultrasonic. No cars with ultrasonic sensors have had them disabled. All cars with ultrasonic sensors still have functional summon/smart summon/auto park.
Wow. So the 2023 model wise not only are missing ultrasonic sensors they are also missing radar? I have to agree with the person that said no amount of software download is going to make the visual cameras as good as what apparently I never got in the first place. Little bit of a rude awakening. I'll still hope for something better but I guess I'll just have to enjoy the rest of the car in the meantime... nobody can match the pick up at least.
Radar hardware was removed from 3/Y in around early 2021. Software updates have now disabled radar function on older cars with radar and HW3 (starting approx 2018 models).
This might explain why Autopilot is worse on my 3 after I upgraded the computer from 2.5 to 3.0.
Big disappointment with Tesla not Bing honest when they sold the car
