I agree that it would likely be iillegal to cover the speedometer, even though, in reality, when you're executing a lane change it is more important to verify the status of your blind spot for 2 seconds than to check your speed. So, just move the image to right under the speed display. Re the audible alert, I meant to say while using the turn signal. Wasn't aware of the setting so will do that. Thanks.
I couldn't disagree more. I find the car/road graphics to be outstanding at building situational awareness for things like blind spot awareness. It accurately shows position, and closure (except for semi-trucks). I find it to be much better than a simple binary light in the mirror. It does require a different "crosscheck" than (all other) cars without a visualization.
Perhaps I will eventually adapt to using that kind of situational awareness. But I prefer to get my situational awareness by looking straight ahead and using my mirrors rather than looking down at the display screen and interpreting the images there. I'm driving a car, not playing a video game. Like others have said, I prefer a simple warning by a flashing light that doesn't require any interpretation or lapse of concentration. If the flashing light were added, then the screen graphic could be consulted to verify the basis of the warning light.
Yes, I think that when Tesla envisioned the minimalist Model 3 interior (and exterior if you include functionality like warning lights on the side mirrors), the thought was that FSD was right around the corner and the cars would be driving themselves in just a year or two.
In theory my car does that (they all do) but it’s sufficiently subtle and unreliable as to be useless. Sometimes it is correct. But sometimes it is not red even when a car is there. And other times it will show a car two lanes over as red. All of which is to say - if it’s sometimes wrong the information it provides becomes useless. There is a special chime the car will play but that is reserved for what it deems to be imminent collisions - so I’ve only heard it once or twice and of course didn’t initially know what it meant cause I almost never hear it. It’s a bummer and one of my only beefs with the car.
Blind spot mirror indicator lights are a nice “nice to have,” but adjusting side view mirrors so they give you the side view really should take care of blind spots (see this link).
Ahh, you hit the nail on the head. That’s the problem. Beeps that happen so rarely you forget what they are for.
That is the problem. That car and lane line turns RED ONLY when the turn signal is on. So in order to test it out, I have to show the signal and then not change lanes, OR test it ONLY when I need to change lanes and someone is actually in the blindspot.
It would more sense to use the interior camera to sense the driver looking at the side mirror.
I will ass-u-me we all know that the blind spot view is now available in the upper left, or can be moved around the screen, in a recent software update. I also miss having an audible alert, and I have never seen a red vehicle or line on the screen when changing lanes. I also moved the mirrors out and found it too distracting with vehicles appearing in opposing traffic. But I have learned to always check the mirrors first, over my shoulder second, and then the camera last. Some automatic features make us lazy. Like GPS has made me geographically illiterate.
I don't like the blink spot camera image. It blocks my map. I cannot not use the right part of screen for other activities (changing music while waiting for green light,...). There are other ways to improve: showing a big red dot/arrow on the upper left/right corner of the screen if it's unsafe to change lane, resizing or shifting down the right part of the screen when the blind spot camera image is shown so that the driver can use the functions of the right screen, making car icons and ego on the left side of the screen a little bit smaller in order to show cars in at leaat 5 car-length distance behind the ego,...
