Am I the only one left who has not upgraded from 7.0?
I held off on the 7.1 upgrade due to concern over excessive autopilot nag. The main new feature summon seems more like a gimmick than a practical solution for my garage on a slight incline. Auto park perpendicular seems unnecessary. Then I heard about losing audio source shortcut, which I use all of the time, people complain about autopilot staying further to the right, etc. What is a compelling reason to upgrade to 7.1?
What would compel me to upgrade the firmware? In no particular order...
1. Fix 3G signal loss. Currently I pretty much have to do the 2 button reset every 1-2 weeks. It's annoying.
2. One big remote garage door button - it's surprisingly hard to hit the right remote and not go to the set up screen when you are stopping and moving. I know 7.1 can memorize location to activate garage door remote automatically, but I cannot use it for our community gate because every time I exit I would open the entrance gate on the opposite lane. Like the rear camera comes on when car switches to reverse, I want a big button show up when in geolocation of a garage door remote, please.
3. Waze integration to navigation! On that note, I don't understand why Google has not integrated Waze with google map more thoroughly...
4. Improve autopilot follow capability. Frequently when I am locked onto car in front of me at a stop light, autopilot would lose the lock when the other car accelerates, and I have to take over in the middle of the intersection. Maybe the lock distance can be extended?
5. Autopilot slow down as soon as car ahead in next lane encroaches the lane divider, and accelerate earlier when car ahead leaves my lane. Right now it feels like car does not slow until part of the other car is already in my lane, and does not accelerate until the car ahead
Is completely settled in the other lane.
6. Autopilot look further ahead for stopped traffic or big bend in the road. Currently with 7.0, if traffic ahead stops, autopilot starts to slowdown way later than I would have (usually I just disengage), and car does not slow down early when there is a big bend (like highway exit type turn) ahead; it does slow once it is in the turn though, but only if you enter the turn slowly enough.
7. Improve blind spot warning. Right now we get these white and yellow lines showing if there is something next to the car. They are not vary visible. How about the screen flashes if there is something next to the car when turn signal is engaged?
8. Autopilot makes use of rear view camera image to warn of car coming up from behind; maybe only when turn signal is engaged.
9. Autopilot nag optional original (7.0 variety) or enhanced (7.1 variety).
10. Built in Tune-in podcast memorizes where I paused previously. If I'm half way into a show in my morning commute, when I get into the car to go home in the afternoon, the broadcast starts from the beginning.
I can come up with a lot more! Blame autopilot for giving me extra time to think about these things during my commute
Cheers,
I held off on the 7.1 upgrade due to concern over excessive autopilot nag. The main new feature summon seems more like a gimmick than a practical solution for my garage on a slight incline. Auto park perpendicular seems unnecessary. Then I heard about losing audio source shortcut, which I use all of the time, people complain about autopilot staying further to the right, etc. What is a compelling reason to upgrade to 7.1?
What would compel me to upgrade the firmware? In no particular order...
1. Fix 3G signal loss. Currently I pretty much have to do the 2 button reset every 1-2 weeks. It's annoying.
2. One big remote garage door button - it's surprisingly hard to hit the right remote and not go to the set up screen when you are stopping and moving. I know 7.1 can memorize location to activate garage door remote automatically, but I cannot use it for our community gate because every time I exit I would open the entrance gate on the opposite lane. Like the rear camera comes on when car switches to reverse, I want a big button show up when in geolocation of a garage door remote, please.
3. Waze integration to navigation! On that note, I don't understand why Google has not integrated Waze with google map more thoroughly...
4. Improve autopilot follow capability. Frequently when I am locked onto car in front of me at a stop light, autopilot would lose the lock when the other car accelerates, and I have to take over in the middle of the intersection. Maybe the lock distance can be extended?
5. Autopilot slow down as soon as car ahead in next lane encroaches the lane divider, and accelerate earlier when car ahead leaves my lane. Right now it feels like car does not slow until part of the other car is already in my lane, and does not accelerate until the car ahead
Is completely settled in the other lane.
6. Autopilot look further ahead for stopped traffic or big bend in the road. Currently with 7.0, if traffic ahead stops, autopilot starts to slowdown way later than I would have (usually I just disengage), and car does not slow down early when there is a big bend (like highway exit type turn) ahead; it does slow once it is in the turn though, but only if you enter the turn slowly enough.
7. Improve blind spot warning. Right now we get these white and yellow lines showing if there is something next to the car. They are not vary visible. How about the screen flashes if there is something next to the car when turn signal is engaged?
8. Autopilot makes use of rear view camera image to warn of car coming up from behind; maybe only when turn signal is engaged.
9. Autopilot nag optional original (7.0 variety) or enhanced (7.1 variety).
10. Built in Tune-in podcast memorizes where I paused previously. If I'm half way into a show in my morning commute, when I get into the car to go home in the afternoon, the broadcast starts from the beginning.
I can come up with a lot more! Blame autopilot for giving me extra time to think about these things during my commute
Cheers,