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The feature specifically mentions Home and Work needing to he setup in the Nav and so many have presumed that it would just learn your commute and not trips to the store. But like Evan and others I have come into the garage to throw some laundry in at a random time and the car is sitting there w/ HVAC running so I've turned it off. We did get the patch update over the weekend but haven't re-enabled it.Forgive me if this has been mentioned before in this thread (or elsewhere). Do you have to select "Work" and "Home" from the Nav screen in order for the learning process to know that you are going to and from Work? Or is the learning process simply related to the time you get in your car and leave home regardless of destination and the time you leave work regardless of the destination?
Came out to my car nicely preheated before my regular Saturday morning work out. Weird thing though was it preheated to 71 and I've never once set the climate temp above 70 and it is almost always set to 68.
It would be great to just create a calendar entry "Turn on Tesla HVAC" and have the car heat/cool based on that trigger. So simple....
Smart preconditioning didn't work for me either--I turned it off too. Tesla, just let us manually schedule times and leave it at that. There's no way you're going to be able to accurately predict our driving schedules, and the wasted energy by trying to do so is...well...not eco-friendly at all. It's not a failure on your developer's part--it's just not physically possible.
The thing is, they could easily add manual scheduling without doing away with the preconditioning as it stands now, and give everyone what they want.
They could have the preconditioning as it is working now populate a scheduling or calendar type screen that shows us when the car plans to preheat, and at what temperatures, etc. That screen would allow us to make changes to what the car intends to do. So we have full manual control, to override or completely turn off the car's ability to "learn" our schedules. But the people who like the way preconditioning is working never have to touch that screen, and things will keep working exactly as they are now. And for people who generally like it, but just want to have a little more control, or want to know ahead of time what is going to happen, this would make them happy too.
This is another example of Tesla seemingly doing the hard part of the software, and not doing the easy part. I mean whatever programming had to be done to try to figure out when to preheat based on when people have been driving, etc. has to be a whole lot harder than just taking that information that has already been figured out and popping it into a scheduler and also allowing people to make changes to that scheduler. The first requires actual computations and algorithms. The second is just a user interface and mapping stuff. So as I see it, Tesla did 90% of the work to give us 10% of the functionality, when if they did the remaining 10% of the work, we'd have the other 90% of the functionality (taking us up to 100% functionality.)
The way I see it Smart Preconditioning is far from provide good results, if they provide a schedule interface no one will use the smart preconditioning so they won't have field data and the system can't be perfected, I think currently the users are guinea pigs hence released as Beta, with the field information they can start to improve the system, the problem with that is that the current behavior is far from correct, my car used to turn on every single weekend, I ended disabling and I'll re enable again probably in 6 months, probably for that time they will have figure out how to make it more precise.
I think you completely misunderstood how I envisioned the scheduler.
It would initially populate with what the Tesla preconditioning predicted. We would then manually make changes to that, to get it to do exactly what we want it to do. Sure, some people could still choose to turn off the "guessing" that the preconditioning was doing, but I'm sure plenty of people would leave it on. And for anyone that did leave it on, the changes and corrections that people were entering could significantly speed up the ability for Tesla to correct the algorithms that help the software learn people's patterns.
My car seems to only precondition for me when i'm leaving the gym at lunch time. Not in the AM or PM. Odd. I really wish they exposed more knobs or at least tell you what its thinking. So far the beta is a failure for me.
I have not found "smart" preconditioning to be useful, and certainly not smart. The only times it seems to precondition are odd times. e.g. late weekday nights and odd times on weekends. Today, it was "smart preconditioning" at 10pm on a Friday night (I have not driven at 10pm on a Friday, much less any day of the week, in a long time).
Hopefully they will improve it.