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Blind spot and dash cam feature teased by Elon
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Fusion
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Hurry up with the dash cam! I need to see if I still need to install my Blackvue.
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I wonder how reliable that blind spot detection feature going to be considering that the range of the sensors is 20 feet (if I recollect) and the Radar is only forward. Sounds like it will make heavy use of the cameras.. which likely result in false positives and false negatives 
additional radars would have been nice
additional radars would have been nice
This. My wife’s CRV we got in January has BSM with the light in the side mirrors and chime when someone is in the blind and you turn the blinker on. Also has rear cross traffic alert which is great. Also has ACC and lane keep assist. How much better is auto pilot on the Tesla than lane keep assist on a Honda?!
I wonder how reliable that blind spot detection feature going to be considering that the range of the sensors is 20 feet (if I recollect) and the Radar is only forward. Sounds like it will make heavy use of the cameras.. which likely result in false positives and false negatives
additional radars would have been nice
Blind Spot Warning on the S and X aren't great - it's more about the time it takes a car to register than the actual range.
However, I'm sure Tesla's long term plan is to do image recognition or motion analysis on the fender camera images to clear the blind spots. If the Neural Networks are solid, that should provide a very good solution.
Of course, then they'd have to figure out a better way of telling you about it, too, but I'm sure that will come.
K-MTG
Sunshade Captain of TMC
My Acura has a great system...I don’t think Tesla needs a light on the mirrors but I am curious how it will be implemted
Pentium2004
Former Vendor
voip-ninja
Give me some sugar baby
Maybe Tesla does need a lamp in the mirror since that is pretty much the industry standard.
Unfortunately Elon's "full self driving by 2018" original prediction from the 2015/16 time-frame when this car was designed is meeting with the reality of humans piloting these vehicles much of the time and us feeble humans do much better with visual stimuli than auditory.
dhrivnak
Active Member
An audible beep/chime and while the display does show a car in the blind spot it is a light grey line on a lighter grey background. Give us the ability to display as a bright red.
ConcordeSST
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If anyone is interested, the historical release timeline can be seen at the bottom of the page: Software 8.1 is Here
It could require you to provide your own USB drive to enable it.
The whole center screen setup is a big tablet computer running a customized Linux kernel, so of course the car has digital storage to support that. I'm not sure if Tesla is planning to use some of that storage to record for the dashcam, or require a thumb drive as suggested above, or some combination.
In theory, they could even stream it to the mothership over LTE, but I doubt that'll happen for anything except detected events because of the data costs.
dhrivnak
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have never seen it on my left when on the interstate I do notice that in town if I am close to a guard rail on the right but I have to be CLOSE.
This is why I cheer on other manufactures getting into the EV game. No more weird mobiles and no more skimping on interiors please!
After all cars are Teslas, they'll talk to each other to tell what they are doing, and make sure they don't hit each other.
I don't know about the 3, but on the S and X, you can just plug a USB drive into the front USB ports and it'll hook in. For the moment, it's only usable for music AFAIK.
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