I fear that our nanny state will never permit v7 in the near future
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I fear that our nanny state will never permit v7 in the near future
Tesla Delays Autopilot Release to Europe and Asia - TESLARATI.com
Dborn
Confirmed
As I said I went down to look at 7 in Sydney yesterday, but the one car with it was about to be given to the press so they could not show me.
Not ideal but if that is really the case they should be able to roll out V7 with everything except auto steer activated and activate auto steer with a minor update later. It would still give us the new look, improvements in all other areas and auto park.
raynewman
Active Member
One hopes that Malcolm wants it then we should all get it.
Another thought; is there any way to copy the software from car to car?
Maybe they realised we drive on the other side of the road and forgot to allow for that in testing.
Mark E
Member
That's extremely unlikely - even for a service department. Think about the difference between an install CD for say windows on a PC vs trying to copy windows from one PC to another.
raynewman
Active Member
One wonders if the installation bundle is deleted after an install or kept 'just in case'.
Mark E
Member
Good point. Anything is possible. A major difference to a regular machine though is that the car is really a network of interconnected ECUs and each software update updates the microcode in them - as we've seen by people needing to 'reboot the door handles'. if you'd have told me 15 years ago that door handles might need a reboot I'd have laughed.
This is probably the best and worst aspects of cars as they move forward. When CAN-BUS came out the security aspects became real since you could hack them easily. With the whole lot connected permanently to the Internet the security needs to be bumped up dramatically. This is all good, other than what it means for 3rd party repairs down the track. The current security in the system will prevent any unauthorised access - and if done properly this should be true even with physical access to the car.
raynewman
Active Member
They did, however, with physical access to the car manage to hack a Model S. With physical access, I'm sure it is not impossible. I wouldn't try tho as there is always the possibility of bricking it.
Not relevant, nor should there be concern, as there are model s in australia that have been updated this week. We just have to wait for the american rollout to complete. It's the same as waiting for the D cars.
Dborn
Confirmed
Not much being reported on the USA forums in this regard. There really does appear to have been a major interruption to the roll out. Waiting......
After my 4-year wait, I guess this is not too bad, but still, it would have been nice to be one of the early ones in the circumstances.
After my 4-year wait, I guess this is not too bad, but still, it would have been nice to be one of the early ones in the circumstances.
Blue heaven
Fair Dinkum Tesla
I completely agree with you. Early waiters should have been rewarded, however that type of thing isn't really in the american culture.
Data Validity
Just to to be clear re all,the comments on 3G or not - does anyone put validity in the data collected at Tesla Firmware Upgrade Tracker Web App. It seems to confirm a bias in how the updated is received.
Just to to be clear re all,the comments on 3G or not - does anyone put validity in the data collected at Tesla Firmware Upgrade Tracker Web App. It seems to confirm a bias in how the updated is received.
lennier
Member
Yes but it has no information about why that bias occurs. It could be (and probably is) because more cars are reliably connected for longer periods on wifi than 3G, rather than there being any preference deliberately given to wifi connected vehicles.
Dborn
Confirmed
There definitely appears to be a halt on the roll out.
We get both a blog post and an email telling us that 7 is here, but it just simply is not. Is it being tweaked and fixed in response to the USA experience? Who knows.
I just wish Tesla would get over itself and start communicating properly with owners. I have said this before, it is a lot easier to deal with something if you know the backstory. Just being left in the dark wondering what is happening is not good for anyone including the company.
We get both a blog post and an email telling us that 7 is here, but it just simply is not. Is it being tweaked and fixed in response to the USA experience? Who knows.
I just wish Tesla would get over itself and start communicating properly with owners. I have said this before, it is a lot easier to deal with something if you know the backstory. Just being left in the dark wondering what is happening is not good for anyone including the company.
raynewman
Active Member
Unfortunately, Tesla's ability or wish to communicate is about zero. I went to the TMC Connect in San Francisco in July hoping to get some words of wisdom from Tesla.
We got nothing. Tesla's "communication" person spoke at us for a while. Didn't talk about Tesla; just gave us his life story which was booooring.
Yes - do wish communication was further up the list. I often can't even get an answer to a specific email to the service person in Sydney.
lennier
Member
Yes they really don't seem to get the under-promise and over-deliver philosophy. I was quite happy (more or less) to be waiting for 7 until the end of the year when nothing specific had been detailed. But then they come out and say here it is, worldwide rollout over 5 days, and all of a sudden you have a lot of disappointed customers that you needn't have had when that completely fails to happen.
