I went back and looked at the Autopilot menu. Nothing on there about enhanced traffic to turn on so I guess only people with FSD get it. I should have HW3 as I think it was built in June 2019.
No. I was in the driver seat using the button on the steering wheel. He was in the passenger seat using the mic button on the screen. I messed around with the voice commands a bit again and leaned way over into the middle and had slightly more success. Although, some of the time it typed out exactly what I said, but didn't follow through by doing the command. I used one of the example commands in the release notes too!
And I still can't send text messages. If I say "send text message to Name" (and it actually captures what I said), then it gives me a list of my contacts with names and phone numbers. That person's name was in there, but when I click it, it calls him... not text message. And when someone sends me a message, I click reply and it doesn't even recognize that I'm talking to it. It's an empty window that just says "listening..."
This update is useless to me. I was so looking forward to the voice command features so I wouldn't have to look over at the screen for things like turning on the seat heater or changing the temperature, but with how it's working, I actually have to look at the screen more to see if it's captured my command! Just better for me to act like this feature isn't even present... cuz it's not. Hopefully they'll work out the bugs soon.