Tesla Motors Club
Mods - I figured as the cars start rolling out we're all going to have some future feature suggestions, so I'm suggesting this as the standard format (title: "Feature Suggestion - xxxxxxxx", with a simple poll, so that hopefully the well-received ones will bubble up to the top, and get some attention from the folks at Tesla. If you can think of a better way, I'm all for it.
For Home Link, as the car is Geo-aware, it would be very useful to store your 'home' location. Then, as the car is within, say, 100yrds from home, and on a logical route to the house (i.e. not in a nearby neighborhood that has no through roads to the house) a little prompt appears on screen that says:
Assuming the driver does nothing, the car activates Homelink once within a reasonable range, and their garage door is opened by the time they get to the driveway.
I realize Homelink can be a bit hit and miss (it is for me, at least), but it works the first time around 90% of the time. A follow-on dialog box could also pop-up after the first activation, saying:
For Home Link, as the car is Geo-aware, it would be very useful to store your 'home' location. Then, as the car is within, say, 100yrds from home, and on a logical route to the house (i.e. not in a nearby neighborhood that has no through roads to the house) a little prompt appears on screen that says:
Assuming the driver does nothing, the car activates Homelink once within a reasonable range, and their garage door is opened by the time they get to the driveway.
I realize Homelink can be a bit hit and miss (it is for me, at least), but it works the first time around 90% of the time. A follow-on dialog box could also pop-up after the first activation, saying: