I'm at the Toronto SC right now getting the upgrade. The tech spoke to me for quite a bit. Here are the takeaways:
- The process is fairly manual. He had to actually have his laptop in the car. He said there's a lot of "change a setting manually, reboot, change another setting, reboot, download a file, reboot, set some parameters, reboot. Download new firmware, reboot"
- He said there is a new firmware version just like the regular ones we get, but the settings they change get picked up by a new firmware to drive the different behavior. I'll see what version they install as I was on 17.42.a88c8d5 when I rolled in.
- He said that they are normally doing firmware updates in batches of 10000 at a time now when there are new updates.
- He said there is no actual physical hardware change at all. I asked about fuses and connectors and he said no. It's because of the manual steps that we need to bring it in (or have a rover do it)
He seemed pretty knowledgeable, so I think I believe most of what he said. And he's the one actually doing the work on the car right now.
I got a glimpse of the WARP system. It automatically knew when I got there and they knew who I was before I introduced myself. The system popped me up on the screen when I arrived. Pretty slick.
The update is described as "difficulty level: Ludicrous". This is a reference back to John's comments about the various classifications of level of service from his europe video.
That's all for now, will post more if I learn anything else.