I was stuck in a backup for some hours last night in the mountains of North Carolina when a rock slide closed the highway. After they eventually got us out of the backup I then needed to reroute to reach my destination and might need an intermediate charge. The in car navigator could not help me at all since it would only point me along the very route that was closed. I contacted support and they said they could do nothing about it either and suggested I try using Google maps since that has the ability to choose alternate routes.
Doesn't that seem pretty lame? In a disaster like this one of the most important parts of the car was entirely dysfunctional. If the car can't navigate a route, you can't plan charging and it will become very hard to go anywhere with the confidence of making it.
Why would Tesla not provide a means for a rapid update to the roads data base to allow for emergency road closures? Heck, if the road closure had been entered into the system when I first reported it to Tesla, who knows how many others might not have been caught in the resulting backup?
Doesn't that seem pretty lame? In a disaster like this one of the most important parts of the car was entirely dysfunctional. If the car can't navigate a route, you can't plan charging and it will become very hard to go anywhere with the confidence of making it.
Why would Tesla not provide a means for a rapid update to the roads data base to allow for emergency road closures? Heck, if the road closure had been entered into the system when I first reported it to Tesla, who knows how many others might not have been caught in the resulting backup?