Mokuzai
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The front camera array has different brackets built into the windshield so a full camera swap would require a windshield replacement according to the mobile tech I spoke to.
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Tesla infotainment system upgradeable from MCU1 to MCU2
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The front camera array has different brackets built into the windshield so a full camera swap would require a windshield replacement according to the mobile tech I spoke to.
Cheburashka
Active Member
There is two things they can do.
1 - Take the red/greyscale cameras on AP2 cars and interpret into color. This is doable and takes a bit of processing power.
2 - Swap the cameras to color ones. I think this is more realistic, but who knows.
Cheburashka
Active Member
There is nothing stopping them from developing a retrofit camera housing for AP2 cars.
Silicon Desert
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[QUOTE="allhands, post: 4531596, member: 45447
Has anyone received an invite to schedule your upgrade yet? I would think they would start sending them the day after the announcement...[/QUOTE]
A bit puzzled here. Why would you think that when practically every other announcement seems to take months before anything happens. A serious question. Inquiring minds want to know
Has anyone received an invite to schedule your upgrade yet? I would think they would start sending them the day after the announcement...[/QUOTE]
A bit puzzled here. Why would you think that when practically every other announcement seems to take months before anything happens. A serious question. Inquiring minds want to know
Silicon Desert
Well-Known Member
Hmmmm, I guess the pessimists will interpret that as meaning later than April, and the Optimist will interpret it as sooner than AprilDid anyone else notice that the timing for “all others” changed from early April to “coming soon” on the Tesla website?
Another thing for us to debate 
SucreTease
Teslarian
Trebek1762
Let's play jeopardy
@bmah I made a FAQ thread to try and clean up some of the confusion and same questions that keep coming out over and and over and over and OVER AND OVER again. Maybe sticky it?
If anyone wants anything added, just PM me.
If anyone wants anything added, just PM me.
Silicon Desert
Well-Known Member
You are making a wrong assumption about not easy to reach. I needed to have a pillar camera replaced on the X and I watched them do it.
dbldwn02
Active Member
I'm on my second pillar camera. One replaced in each pillar. I don't know why keep going "bad." About once a week I get the AP features limited, may be restored on next drive, but it usually doesn't restore for a day or two.
If that's the case, then Tesla should offer it as a secondary more-expensive option and let the consumers decide if the cost is worth it.
There is rumor that that might be an option. But they probably don't really want to tie up the service staff doing those upgrades so they aren't advertising it yet.
On the FSD page, they explicitly say that you'll get Sentry Mode with the MCU1-MCU2 and HW2.0-HW3.0 upgrade: "The FSD Computer upgrade does enable recording from all cameras with Sentry Mode and DashCam for vehicles previously equipped with Autopilot Computer 2.0 or 2.5 and paired with the Infotainment Upgrade."
Full Self-Driving Computer Installations
I'm irritated. The more I read about this, the more frustration is rising within me. As an Oct 2016 model S owner who gave Tesla thousands of dollars 3 years ago for a promise, I now see nothing but the company telling me I need to spend even more money to bring my car to the full "FSD" experience that I was promised years ago. I understand they may be able to give me some sort of FSD experience with my MCU 1 by merely replacing the FSD computer, but I have watched them fail year after year to even bring anything other than highway autosteer as a reliable experience. Is it too much to expect some sort of acknowledgment from Tesla to those of us who invested early and eagerly in their vision? Some gratitude and willingness to upgrade whatever hardware is needed for the vision of FSD that the company now has. I invested in them. Couldn't they give a little back?
Trebek1762
Let's play jeopardy
No. they'll get you HW3. that's all you've paid for.
Trebek1762
Let's play jeopardy
ekendahl
Member
Cool!. Stated more clearly than I remembered so they must have a solution.
It still seems reasonable to me that they will switch out the cameras for 2.0 owners. That way the whole FSD fleet has the same camera source for their processing (but it would still leave a slightly different radar). I don't know enough about how they process the camera data streams to know if having the same source is important. Another cheaper alternative is to simply enable b&w sentry mode for AP2 cars. Time will tell.
It was news to me as well - i was worried the description on the infotainment page was an oversight as well. I'm hoping for new cameras too!
