Given Tesla’s stated safety goals and understanding the capabilities of the cars it feels like there is an easy improvement to blind spot management.
All I want to know (especially in heavy traffic) is “Am I clear to change lanes.” Which is the beauty of the ubiquitous mirror lights. Tesla is not going to add those. But they could use the mostly useless visualization screen.
When the driver turns on their turn signal - the adjacent lane could light up amber if the lane is occupied. While this does not show the car next to you the arrow in the mirror (which is nice) it would be superior to mirror arrows in that you wouldn’t need to turn your head or even take your eyes off the road.
As a bonus you could have the option to toggle on a haptic enhancement and/or a chime if you wanted.
To me this is such a fundamental safety feature and one the car is already so well set up to address - it makes me sad that the current system is so bad. Even with the recent camera addition you are required to look away from the road and focus on the camera feed and then interpret the information. All to get a simple Y/N piece of information. One which the car is already fully capable of providing. And does (for itself) when executing automated lane changes.
All I want to know (especially in heavy traffic) is “Am I clear to change lanes.” Which is the beauty of the ubiquitous mirror lights. Tesla is not going to add those. But they could use the mostly useless visualization screen.
When the driver turns on their turn signal - the adjacent lane could light up amber if the lane is occupied. While this does not show the car next to you the arrow in the mirror (which is nice) it would be superior to mirror arrows in that you wouldn’t need to turn your head or even take your eyes off the road.
As a bonus you could have the option to toggle on a haptic enhancement and/or a chime if you wanted.
To me this is such a fundamental safety feature and one the car is already so well set up to address - it makes me sad that the current system is so bad. Even with the recent camera addition you are required to look away from the road and focus on the camera feed and then interpret the information. All to get a simple Y/N piece of information. One which the car is already fully capable of providing. And does (for itself) when executing automated lane changes.