Tesla Motors Club
From April 2018, new cars sold in the EU are required to have e-call - a system that will automatically call the emergency services if something bad happens to the car e.g. airbags deployed or emergency button pressed. Data sent to the emergency services includes the car's current location. Part of the definition requires that e-call systems must be compatible with Galileo and EGNOS. I was wondering if anyone knows how Tesla plans to implement this?
AFAIK, Tesla's navigation uses GPS modules from Swiss manufacturer U-blox, which can use any of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou and are also compatible with augmentation systems like WAAS and EGNOS. However, the availability of these features is determined by the car manufacturer. It would be nice if Tesla chose to provide e-call through a software update, enabling more GNSS and augmentation systems.
Does anyone have any information about this?
AFAIK, Tesla's navigation uses GPS modules from Swiss manufacturer U-blox, which can use any of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou and are also compatible with augmentation systems like WAAS and EGNOS. However, the availability of these features is determined by the car manufacturer. It would be nice if Tesla chose to provide e-call through a software update, enabling more GNSS and augmentation systems.
Does anyone have any information about this?