Can you elaborate a bit? What happened to the side mirror? Did I miss some release note and now my side mirror is at risk?
Tesla added a new "feature" to automatically unfold mirrors when driving. Their most recent implementation is to do it above 10mph or some other threshold, however the first implementation was to unfold them as soon as the car starts moving. In one of the office buildings where my wife parks, she has to fold the mirrors to pull in really close to a wall and a concrete pillar. She usually squeezes into the car, then manually folds the mirrors, then backs out, then unfolds the mirrors and drives away. Well, as you can imagine, after the OTA update, the manually folded mirrors auto-unfolded as soon as the car started moving, and right into the concrete, breaking the mirror.
Not the first time a Tesla OTA endangered one of our cars. in October 2016 I went on a cross country drive, and applied an OTA just before leaving. When driving through humid Indiana in the middle of the night, the wipers couldn't keep up with the condensing fold on the outside of the front winshield, so I turned on the front defroster (double tap the front defroster, red icon says "HI"). Well, in that screwed up OTA the "HI" mode actually implemented a "LO" mode, so it ended up freezing my front windshield in no time leaving me doing 55mph through dark rural highway with trucks behind me and in opposite direction. I got really scared, opened the side window to stick my head out and managed to pull over. After some diagnosing, I realized the "HI" defroster air is actually ice cold, got onto TMC to warn others, but it was already found. Doesn't Tesla have some freaking QA? Apparently not enough to check things like this. They did fix it next release, just like the mirror unfold.
Things like the Easy Entry triggering while stopping to pick up people are just silly. It's not like Tesla invented this feature - it's been successfully implemented on my 2006 Lexus, so it's not revolutionary new stuff, yet they implement it in a bonehead way. Yes they fixed it in the next release, not completely yet (still pops up the "Easy Entry" profile which makes it hard to hit the Homelink because the menu disappears, plus somehow in my Lexus I just used the feature without being aware of it while on Tesla it's something one does notice, so Toyota obviously did it better if the driver gets to benefit from it but not have to pay attention to it). Now we find out there is another "quirk" to this Easy Entry feature which is not as benign as activating to stop to pick up passengers - doing this while rebooting the screen can be deadly. For all the "I will make driving safer" talk from Elon, I think he forgot "eventually self-driving-cars will save lives, but some people will be endangered in the process".
