supratachophobia
Active Member
@Cosmacelf - I agree 100%
The Media Player for USB is hopelessly broken. When I had my S, the USB never reloaded except when a new build was downloaded, it would restart from where it left off after a stop, and the shuffle (pretty much) worked. Now all these things are broken, and have been for 6 months or more.
It wasn't only this one useless Easter egg that sent me over the edge. Consider it the straw that broke the camel's back. We have actual bugs that I continually run into have been in the code for over 4 years. And yet Elon/Tesla continue to do hidden submarine Easter eggs, and frankly useless (or worse) UI changes.
For example, I sent off my visiting sister in my Model S on a 110 mile and back trip a few days ago. The route could not have been simpler, get on the freeway, drive for 108 miles and get off the freeway at the end. One freeway. So we put in the destination into the nav and all looked great! Off she went and then partway through the drive, the Nav did its usual thing of redirecting the route through surface streets for a section. My sister followed these time consuming directions until she realized they were taking more time than the straight freeway route.
I've learned through experience not to trust the nav, but I had forgotten to tell my sister that. It is very sad indeed that the car has a nav so bad that, frankly, you can't rely on it.
I was super irritated with the Christmas Easter egg for model X when the media player was so broken. So while I disagree in this instance (notepad), I actually agree with your more overarching opinion that maybe Easter eggs should come second to actual software improvements that could alleviate daily frustration with the car software.