I'm all for it if it does work. And I think it makes perfect sense for obstacle avoidance on a road when you can move around it early enough. However, for parking scenarios when you are trying to avoid backing too closely to a curb or object, that's when I think vision will struggle for low or smaller nearby obstacles.
Well I just lifted my hold status after returning from my overseas trip, and the new EDD is now Nov 15 to Dec 18! It seems I have been pushed to the back of the queue. I was advised by Tesla that after lifting a hold I would be assigned a new VIN very quickly but that does not seem to be the case - waiting continues!
Be patient. So many of us have had EDD whip-lash as Tesla bounced us back and forth, seemingly random dates. I went from jan-apr 2023 to dec 2022 to vin # and 3 days in the span of Sept 1 - Sept 12. Craziness
Yeah hindsight is 20/20. I'll tell you the truth EAP is really not worth it. There are a few features I like but I also like driving the car more. Definitly don't regret canceling it and trying it out with the subscription.
Yeah usually it sucks when you buy a new thing/car and then a few months later the newer "better" model comes out. In this case I am very happy to have gotten my car when I did and still have the sensors and features like physical turn signal stalks. I'm sure there is some master plan down the road for all this but wow am I sorry to the people about to take delivery this quarter. Tesla seems to be taking a big step back right now. Without the ultrasonic sensors (and thus disabled premium features) FSD is absolutely not worth buying right now for new cars. Very very strange move from teslaTesla Vision Update: Replacing Ultrasonic Sensors with Tesla Vision | Tesla Support
Safety is at the core of our design and engineering decisions. In 2021, we began our transition to Tesla Vision by removing radar from Model 3 and Model Y, followed by Model S and Model X in 2022. Today, in most regions around the globe, these vehicles now rely on Tesla Vision, our camera-based...www.tesla.com
OMG. This sucks. If HW4 doesn't magically appear, I'm going to be pissed. We are currently paying top dollar for these vehicles at the same time they are removing functionality. I wouldn't be surprised if they used plugs for the bumper holes that no longer have sensors in them (passenger lumbar support anyone?). I'll wait to see what shows up when it's delivery time, but I am now on the cancelling fence.
The crappy part about this announcement is that most likely they will disable the ultrasonic sensors for all cars via software, just like they recently disabled radar for cars that have it.
You can sell that the mobile charger was anything other then a cost cutting measure. The price of the car did not come down when they d/c it ( in fact it went up) and they passed the cost of the charger over to the customer. It was and still is a method for Tesla to wring a few more dollars out of customers. Just like when they stopped giving the back license plate frame. I get it there a business but to call it anything other then a money grab is being disingenuous.
They said for now on their website they wouldn't. I have a suspicion that this might be something they need to back track on. I get cameras and radar might overlap but I can't see how cameras could do the job of USS. Elon made the argument they got rid of radar because humans naturally use their eyes when driving so cameras were the cars eyes. Ok I guess but USS isn't eyes it's more like ears or hands.
Perhaps that could be unequivocally stated about a license plate frame, but the mobile charger is subject to greater supply shortages. Sure, they also pocketed the money, but why does there only need to be one reason? Can't there be two reasons?
That was @Mob Dee's point; Tesla knows better. Other vision-based parking systems show a 360 view of the car's environment from above. That's an image calculated from the car's cameras and I think that it's superior to the distance indicators. Tesla may be going in that direction. In FSD Beta, when you park, you are shown an overhead view of the parking space and the cars around you. It's stylized like all of Tesla's driving visualizations, but it's more useful than the proximity stuff. If they keep working on that, with the synthesized view, it'll be pretty awesome.
I think a lot of people were concerned as well because without a bumper camera, there’s a blind spot in front of the bumper. I don’t understand the tech enough to comment but would their new system be able to stop you if a small child or pet or animal crawls into that blind spot?
My eyes and paying attention to my surroundings like a responsible driver should.
You may be thinking about monster SUVs with big forward blind spots. The Tesla has essentially no forward blind spot, and the forward camera is high on the windshield, affording an even better view of the area in front of the car than the driver sees. Is it perfect? No. Are ultrasonics perfect? No.
There's no need to be harsh. If you know better, then be a good teacher and mentor. Tough love has its place, but it's hardly a cure-all. Also, not everyone is as diligent and attentive as you are, so having safety features like this that ensure that nobody is going to get hurt are important. I'm normally a very diligent and attentive driver, but I have had lapses, and having the car help me out would have been appreciated.
