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backing up camera feature suggestion
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I was lucky enough to get a test drive a few days ago and noticed that the backup camera, while beautiful, was not as helpful as my current car. It made objects appear much closer than they actually were so it appeared I was about to hit them when I in fact had 5-6 feet. Not sure this is something that could be adapted to, seemed really out of whack. Has anyone else tested this? If not, perhaps the next person who gets to drive one can check out what I'm talking about.
contaygious
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contaygious
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Bad news!
"At this point, I don't see any plans for an auto adjusting steering wheel.* We'll be using Google Voice, but that's something that will come online with our very first software update.* The car will have a wifi card, so it will be able to use wifi (mobile hotspots, etc), but it won't be a hotspot in itself.* With your HD backup camera, there won't be assist lines."
"At this point, I don't see any plans for an auto adjusting steering wheel.* We'll be using Google Voice, but that's something that will come online with our very first software update.* The car will have a wifi card, so it will be able to use wifi (mobile hotspots, etc), but it won't be a hotspot in itself.* With your HD backup camera, there won't be assist lines."
Todd Burch
14-Year Member
Just got this info from my Tesla rep 2 hours ago:
Todd's Question said:
Tesla Representative's Response said:
Cottonwood
Roadster#433, Model S#S37
A small nit with the backup camera:
When you put the car in reverse, the backup camera takes priority on the 17" screen and gives you a backup view. The Homelink button seems to have priority over the Apps, but under the backup camera in reverse screen. My garage door opener is a litte deaf, so my procedure is to back out until I am just clear of the door. This door happens to be second on the homelink list and goes behind the backup camera view. The first time this happened, I put the car in park, hit the homelink tab, put the car back in reverse and continued away from the garage; what a pain. Now, I just leave the car in reverse and tap where I know the homelink tab is hiding under the backup camera view. This works, but is a kludge; the homelink drop-down list should have priority over the backup view.
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The new Infiniti system with 4 cameras on each side that are merged and show a top down view of the vehicle with everything around it, is amazing. Also, the older system from Infiniti that showed the projected path of the vehicle sides based on steering wheel position was very nice.
When you put the car in reverse, the backup camera takes priority on the 17" screen and gives you a backup view. The Homelink button seems to have priority over the Apps, but under the backup camera in reverse screen. My garage door opener is a litte deaf, so my procedure is to back out until I am just clear of the door. This door happens to be second on the homelink list and goes behind the backup camera view. The first time this happened, I put the car in park, hit the homelink tab, put the car back in reverse and continued away from the garage; what a pain. Now, I just leave the car in reverse and tap where I know the homelink tab is hiding under the backup camera view. This works, but is a kludge; the homelink drop-down list should have priority over the backup view.
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The new Infiniti system with 4 cameras on each side that are merged and show a top down view of the vehicle with everything around it, is amazing. Also, the older system from Infiniti that showed the projected path of the vehicle sides based on steering wheel position was very nice.
NigelM
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Today (for the first time and with no firmware updates or numbered changes) when I tapped the homelink button but was still in "R", the homelink list showed up and the picture from the reversing camera slid down the screen about an inch to make room for it. No more overlap. Was I seeing things? Nope, tested it again and it performed like that repeatedly. No firmware changes that can be noted.
Norbert
TSLA will win
NigelM
Recovering Member
I've been on v4.1 (1.19.29) for several weeks now.
P.S. checked again as I plugged in for the night and this new "feature" is still there.
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Francis Lau
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New Minor Enhancement I just Noticed
If this has been posted, I apologized but I just noticed this today.
I back my car into the driveway every time and it was annoying that the Homelink window covers the rear view camera video. Today, I noticed that it now shifts the pic down a bit as shown below. Cool!
If this has been posted, I apologized but I just noticed this today.
I back my car into the driveway every time and it was annoying that the Homelink window covers the rear view camera video. Today, I noticed that it now shifts the pic down a bit as shown below. Cool!
DCWitt
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NigelM
Recovering Member
This was already noted over here: backing-up-camera-feature-suggestion. Was apparently in one of the SW updates.
(I feel a thread merge coming on.....)
(I feel a thread merge coming on.....)
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