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This is one of those cases where the amazing experience of driving in a car from the future is interrupted to remind you that not *all* of the car is from the future. The maps and media experience is not on par with what you may used to from mobile apps or other vehicles.
The forthcoming V9 software reportedly adds waypoints, to allow a user to enter multiple destinations for a single trip. For now, it looks like this can only be setup in the car, but, in the future, Tesla could potentially ass the ability to enter waypoints using the Android / iPhone app.
Shame that other 'not so smart' cars already have that feature: Send to Car Settings
The capability to sync your calendar from your phone and send a destination address from the native map applications on iOS & Android were added to in the car/app software updates last month.
Yes, though sadly all it sends is a destination address... not the route or any waypoints.
Which means the Tesla nav still can't handle things a Garmin from 15 years ago could.
Not having waypoints is a nuisance but Tesla said it is forthcoming.
Why would you want to send a static route to a navigation system?
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Traffic when you set the route can be considerably different than when you are traveling it?
Several reasons- for example-
1) It would have waypoints (which Tesla has said is "coming" for a long time.... but this is a problem folks had solved in like 2003. What's the hold up?
2) It would let me pick which of several different routes google maps offers I want to use- unlike the Tesla nav that picks a route and gives you no choice.
Just like the Tesla nav, googles map would already have accounted for traffic in creating the route (and usually with better traffic data than Tesla)... then the Tesla nav once it has the route can always update said route based on changes in traffic if they're significant enough to save you enough time (which is already a setting in the nav system on the Tesla anyway so something it already does).
By your example, if you pick a different route using google maps (and its traffic at the time it calculated the route) and send it to Tesla, Tesla will re-route immediately to its preferred route as it will calculate to be faster due to its traffic information.
The only way to keep the route you pick is to have Tesla not reroute ever which can lead you to a route that may be at a complete standstill.
I would add: You can't change or customize a route that the Tesla Nav decides for youYou can't send a route to Tesla.
that's the problem.
In part because the car is too dumb to understand way-points.
(and mainly it's needed because the car is also too dumb to offer alternate routes)
Not having waypoints is a nuisance but Tesla said it is forthcoming.
Why would you want to send a static route to a navigation system? Traffic when you set the route can be considerably different than when you are traveling it? Reminds me of when I drove cross the country in the 90's with the trip planner prepared by AAA.