Firmware 7.0

[MarcG]

Overall impression? Was it worth the wait?

For my very limited, sleepy run: yes, with a couple of caveats.

First, I don't trust autosteer at all on surface streets, at least for now. It almost ran me into the median after crossing an intersection.

Second, autosteer seems to want to take an exit once in a while instead of staying in the lane that would keep you on the highway (even with Nav engaged,

Lastly, the "nag" feature that tells you to "hold the steering wheel" seems pretty aggressive - it seemed like every 1 minute, and after about 2 minutes of ignoring it the car started to slow down.

Much more testing to be done obviously, but autosteer seems to work well. As for the user interface, we definitely lost some details, information, and precision of information (e.g. power meter ticks).

 

[Kickin]

Woke up at 6am, got notification about an hour before that, installing it now! WooHoo!!

 

[Patrick W]

Received via WiFi. Installing now. Thinking I probably ought to get some sleep before trying it out.

 

[ElectrkSam]

Got it. Installing now.

 

[msnow]

Who has received Firmware 7.0 ? Post here!

Received notification at 2:00 AM PDT. Started install at 3:15 PDT. 90D delivered 9/15/15. On wifi VIN 103xxx. Says will take 1:45.

 

[AllenWong]

For my very limited, sleepy run: yes, with a couple of caveats.

First, I don't trust autosteer at all on surface streets, at least for now. It almost ran me into the median after crossing an intersection.

Second, autosteer seems to want to take an exit once in a while instead of staying in the lane that would keep you on the highway (even with Nav engaged,

Lastly, the "nag" feature that tells you to "hold the steering wheel" seems pretty aggressive - it seemed like every 1 minute, and after about 2 minutes of ignoring it the car started to slow down.

Much more testing to be done obviously, but autosteer seems to work well. As for the user interface, we definitely lost some details, information, and precision of information (e.g. power meter ticks).

How does it know if you're holding onto the steering wheel or not? What's the point of autosteering if you have to hold onto the wheel??

 

[Urgo]

Woke up just shy of 5:30am here on the East Coast and went down to the car and saw an update was available! Started it immediately and at 5:30am the update process was under way. I TRIED to go back asleep and well almost an hour later you can see how. Seeing as that the process takes almost two hours I'm going to try again after posting this. So excited though to test this out when its done!

 

[Coiled]

Alright guys, back from my road test. 26-minute video in 1080p uploading to YouTube, might take a while...

Your shot of the instrument panel didn't show up. Care to try again?

 

[MarcG]

Your shot of the instrument panel didn't show up. Care to try again?

Sorry let me try again (it wasn't very useful to be fair, much more in the video coming up in about 1/2 hour)

 

[Coiled]

I got mine over wi-fi, as did everyone else it seems. No doubt Tesla wants to save some OTA bandwidth on this huge update.

 

[MarcG]

Per the Firmware 7.0 thread, I got my update notification around 11:45pm and completed the update around 1:30am. All times Pacific.

Uploading a video of my 25-minute test drive now, should be done shortly. Please refer to the Firmware 7.0 thread for all the details!

 

[oneday]

For my very limited, sleepy run: yes, with a couple of caveats.

First, I don't trust autosteer at all on surface streets, at least for now. It almost ran me into the median after crossing an intersection.

Second, autosteer seems to want to take an exit once in a while instead of staying in the lane that would keep you on the highway (even with Nav engaged,

Lastly, the "nag" feature that tells you to "hold the steering wheel" seems pretty aggressive - it seemed like every 1 minute, and after about 2 minutes of ignoring it the car started to slow down.

Much more testing to be done obviously, but autosteer seems to work well. As for the user interface, we definitely lost some details, information, and precision of information (e.g. power meter ticks).

It's exactly reviews like this that made me think Tesla should turn off Auto-Learning for a week or two. I feel like the data received for at least the next few days will be people pushing some major boundaries.

This is, however, one of my favorite things about Teslas auto pilot. You can activate it where it's explicitly not designed for.

Bottom line, Tesla is the new leader in autonomous driving because of the analytical freedom they have allowed their owners.

 

[MarcG]

By the way, I've updated the firmware tracker with my release details. Version 2.7.56 was not listed so I added it.

Shall we call this release Skynet as someone else had mentioned?

 

[Pete90D]

Started 1:54
Ended 3:35

 

[st50maint]

My 70D just finished installing.

 

[DoctorJJ]

Installing now

 

[fiksegts]

installing now, received OTA, no wifi.... delayed my drive into Miami, but will wait...

 

[commasign]

Mine just finished too, but not as brave (or alert enough) as MarcG to take it out right now. +1 for Skynet.

 

[lolachampcar]

via wifi last night; installing now

 

[matbl]

Second, autosteer seems to want to take an exit once in a while instead of staying in the lane that would keep you on the highway (even with Nav engaged,

So nav is not an input to the function? Disappointing but not a surprise. Another not-entirely-done function from T...

Well, since I have a pre-AP car I don't really care.