First, my thanks for everyone here at the TMC forum for posting up so much critically helpful and important info over the years, am exceedingly grateful for this!
So, just registered now to comment on *this* -- completely agree with the first poster about the 'improved' park assist --it's absolutely worthless rubbish.
Got in my Model 3 first time after the update, put in in reverse and looked down at the display and with a dismayed shock instantly thought, "oh GREAT! Now what?!? My display's gone out, wonderful! I have a defective display!! I carefully backed up, and then carefully started to drive, not knowing what else might be wrong, and then after a few seconds the display went back to normal, and I realized what might going on. Well, at least the car was driveable!
The updated 'parking assist' display is absolute and complete garbage! A farce, a travesty, a pathetic joke. The blobby, massively blurred 'images' are essentialy worthless, and bear absolutely no resemblence or correlation to actual reality around the car. Among a great many other things, when I was backing out of my garage, what was supposedly the surface of my driveway had enormous dark blotches scattered randomly around the car. Were they holes in the pavement? Leaves? I got out to try and figure out what the software thought it was trying to display, and my only guess was -- some tree limbs over the driveway? Really?!? (The display also reverts to this, randomly of course, at various stoplights and intersections, not even in reverse.)
And it's more than just worthless, it's really an embarrasment and insult. The next day I picked up a friend and he looked over at the screen and was taken aback and immediately asked, "Um, what's wrong with your display screen?" I explained the situation and he was in a state of bemused disbelief, "you're kidding, right? *This* is Tesla state ot the art software?!?"
So that's the embarrassment part. The insulting part is this is what Tesla is expecting we're going to accept because they're too cheap or too stubborn to equip the car with the same *useable* real camera based systems that have been available for what, nearly a decade now? For whatever reasons, we're probably stuck with this rubbish substitute -- and with the number of cameras on board, the very *best* I can hope for would be for the display to just go back the way it was before. Like so many other issues, not holding my breath (hello, phantom braking. . .) What will most likely happen with the already announced 'fix' is that it'll be only marginally improved. So encouraging everyone who is dissatisfied with this situation to make this known to Tesla -- and maybe they'll finally equip the cars with a real 360 deg. system.
