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SoccerMan94043
Member
I'm not so sure... V8 has put a wall between me and my USB content.
PatFor
Member
Here in South Carolina where Teslas are a bit thin on the ground got my notification this morning.
I was using full AP, and definitely slammed on the brakes. The regen is great now, but it was for surely a forceful stop. There were 2-3 car lengths between me and the car in front too.
My forward collision is set to the lowest sensitivity too.
It seems to me that this is the exact type of info that TM would like to hear about. They can download your logs and analyze it. For the benefit of us all, please contact them.
I recommend sending a note to ServiceHelpNA@ including as many details as you can remember.
Bruce.
Really liking the update all around (*)AP is nice (nags seem no different to me, YMMV). The new design looks nice and makes better use of space for the most part. Voice command is a bit better, maps a bit better (I like the street name on the bottom, that's more helpful than I expected). I'm hoping this is the foundation for lots of substantive improvement in the future. I like that AP can see two cars ahead now. On my usual drive I didn't sense much difference in AP behavior, though it did seem smoother in stop and go and faster to execute lane changes. Things also seem snappier in the UI, but that could be because they cleared some caches.
* I don't use USB for music.
* I don't use USB for music.
My favorite surprise minor v8 feature is the chime that plays now when GPS based homelink opener is activated.
Mikeman1
Member
I don't like the fact that the Icon Tool Bar disappears from the screen, this might be nice for some owners and not for others.I would like to see an option where the Toolbar could be locked in place for those who use it quite often.
When I back out of the garage, which I do several times a day, I need to Tap the Screen to get the Toolbar to appear then Tap the garage door Icon or whatever Icon I want to use - adding steps is an improvement??
Yup we have long downward sloping driveway. More than once we've parked on the street and the car has opened the garage without our knowledge and we find out hours later. This will help.
Do you not use the auto-homelink with GPS? (Not saying you should, but it reduces the need to poke at the screen when getting going).
The search box even says "Anything" which is a blatant like. It should say, "Search Anything except USB media."
Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
So even if when first turning the fan manually below 4 and it automatically switching to fresh air instead of recirc, you cannot then turn back on recirc without it forcing an increase to speed 4? I just want to make sure I am clear that it is "NOT POSSIBLE" vs. "requires more steps now".
It's not, because I have 1100 artists..... same problem, slow scrolling, accidental click on wrong artist, back out, then start over at the top.
Couple of really good little things with the audio queues. Activating AP dims the music and then plays the sound, very helpful.
Eyes on the road is key here. Not have the alpha shortcuts is dangerous.May work for those with a small number of tracks, or only with certain music types. It's not a good solution if you have lots of compilations, Broadway, or albums with multiple artists where the artist tag by MP3 definition lists all (or most) of the artists on a particular track. Tesla's Artist menu (used to be "tab") is dumb in the sense it alpha sorts that list by whatever is listed in that string of text...
An example. Let's say you have an album where most of the tracks are James Taylor alone, but on one is James and someone else... First, in the former and present menu structure, you'll see two lines in the Artist Menu for that one album -- one for "James Taylor", and another for "James Taylor, Somebody Else", or "James Taylor & Somebody Else", or some other permutation.As I mentioned earlier in my all too long post, the simpler solution while it eliminates detail, has always been for Tesla to just use the "Album Artist" tag on the Media Player Album Menu, where in my former example, all tracks would have been tagged "James Taylor" and then there would be just one entry for the Album. OTOH, if Tesla cared about making USB operate like other best-of-breed media players, they'd add logic to either use the compilation tag as a trigger for what to do, or like say ITunes does, parse the Artist tag into its individual Artists even when there are multiples on a single track. It's complicated, but Tesla's implementation to me demonstrates the designers and engineers coding/testing are only using simple examples with a small volume -- not likely what represents Tesla Owners that also are trying to bring a substantial music library into their Tesla as they have probably done on former luxury vehicles they have owned. Sorry.It becomes more crazy if that second artist is listed first in the tag because they have the lead, as it sorts out of sequence from the rest with Tesla's implementation. You can imagine what happens with say a Broadway Album where one track has many artists, and who is first on each varies widely song to song, or on compilation albums where one artist or group does say duets with many others varying from track-to-track.
...oh, and I should add, the workaround I've been using and continue to use with 8.0 that allows me to use the Artist Menu, is TeslaTunes (available on Mac only). It literally reads my source tracks, takes the Album Artist tag and puts that data into the (track) Artist tag when it builds a copy of the track onto my USB stick, working around Tesla's deficiency. That helps, but honestly, with lots of tracks, albums, or artists, we need the alpha-shortcut back as scrolling is just unreasonable if your trying to keep your eyes on the road.
Lauren
Member
Autopilot was sooooo much more naggy about holding the wheel on my commute this morning. I use it on a 5 mile stretch of road and typically it only asks me to grab the wheel once (during a curvy stretch). This morning it nagged me 4 times..two of which I had my hands resting on the bottom of the wheel anyways.
Another great example of how we all like something different. I prefer rear camera on top and alternate between waze and media on the bottom. By having the camera lock to the top, this helps me keep my eyes on the road longer by shortening the arranging process to one click instead of 3-4.
ArtInCT
Always Learning
Sounds like you have "The Jukebox from Hell" there.... sometimes scale works against you no matter how you prep for it.
Pretty unwieldy... not a criticism but rather an observation. I have my tunes on 3 32GB USBs in a switched port harmonica. Choose one of the USB's per day and run on shuffle.... always surprised.... directory is quickly built in perhaps under a minute... that's how I roll and it works great for me. Obviously your use case is different I suspect. Given the state of affairs... it may be prudent to prep your music in a similar fashion? It's like a box of chocolates.... ;-)
BTW, I think Tesla's media search function submits the search string to the "cloud"... perhaps that is why the USB is and will probably never be searchable... whatever "service" is doing the search is not aware of what is on our USB's or Phones etc.
What we need is a smart USB stick / appliance with voice recognition that does the search and presents the results to the Tesla media player as a subset of the whole media library. This cat needs to be skinned a different way perhaps.
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