Zilla91
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Because like everything Tesla does, it's a half baked solution
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[UK] Spring Software Update
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UWB tech allows for accuracy down to centimetres, so in theory assuming they're using an off-the-shelf product there's no reason it wouldn't be able to know exactly where you are in relation to the car. It will know when you're approaching the boot, and when you walk away from it. It ought to be able to do both opening and closing though I suspect it won't close because someone else without said key could be nearby.
It will probably allow for a more accurate Summon too, though don't know if a button on a phone would meet UNECE standards for the dead mans switch.
It will probably allow for a more accurate Summon too, though don't know if a button on a phone would meet UNECE standards for the dead mans switch.
At a guess, because the frunk isn't powered you might not know it had popped when you walked close to it, vs the boot which would very obviously be open.
Pagemakers
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The frunk is always the one I want open when my hands are full of shopping bags. I’ve even made an Apple Watch Siri shortcut for it.
Oxid8ter
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As an extension to this - powered boots came about (from Legacy Automakers) to resolve the issue of approaching the boots with your hands full, as the funk isn't powered, it popping but not opening doesn't resolve this issue.
That said, I can see the appeal of it what with the Frunk not having a physical button like the boot does.
AndyWarrington
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I sometimes do, though I prefer to use the screen - which currently is often unavailable with the current UI
It's clumsy programming/an after thought - but guess we're lucky cos there's usually software updates to resolve what's been unnecessarily buggered up!
Chimpy McChimp
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My thought is that the boot is powered so it opens fully by itself and the frunk isn't. So you still have to possibly put down what you are carrying to open to to put bags etc in
Granted, it popping is still more convenient than pulling phone out or getting into car first.
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I’d much prefer an update that sorted all the things that only work some of the time, gave us features that would be really useful, e.g. speed limiter, got rid of the things that should never happen and finally gave us everything we paid for.
I just want a car that works, not a games machine that farts!
I just want a car that works, not a games machine that farts!
I'd be happy if they just got the auto wipers working half decently...
(Runs and hides
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(Runs and hides
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Foxsbiscuits
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Interestingly this became Europe law in 2022 and now in the UK -
So is it enough for Tesla to comply by giving a notification rather than physically limit the speed?
Oxid8ter
Returning Member
I can understand that. I mean going back in the past you'd get new functionality when you brought a new car like a BMW but normally it needed new hardware to make that functionality work. When someone said Tesla had software updatable cars I was thinking to myself "Right but what can they do? You'd assume all the hardware already works and any new feature might need new hardware". It just didn't seem like all that much could be done with a car and software updates.Cue "To me! ... To you!" slapstick boot opening/closing as I get bags from a nearby shopping cart.
Who am I kidding, I'm never seeing this feature.
So far my experience of useful updates is "press once for Autosteer", hardly groundbreaking.
So much for "Gets better over time" splattered 9 foot tall in their salesroom.
I think I'm quite bitter but also understand I've bought second hand which puts me behind to begin with, like buying an older phone.
There's solace in the autopilot, that seems to be the main "All cars" update which actually improves, perhaps the others are more gimmicky but I still want them.
I think actually Tesla does do this quite well and surprises me sometimes with what they make possible without changing the hardware of the cars at least some of the times. If you look at legacy OEM's and their "software updatable" cars they don't do all that much which is pretty much what I was expecting to be the reality.
Things like this automatic boot opening. Legacy car makers will probably charge you £300+ for that and it'll involve fitting another sensor to the car to make it work. Tesla have come up with a slightly different way of doing it that if it works well achieves the same goal at £0 extra cost to the customer. I think that's pretty cool even if sadly you don't have a car that will get it. Tesla do add a lot to their cars as standard vs other companies that will rake up the options list to get something similar.
Zilla91
Active Member
On the other hand, Tesla will require you to buy an entirely new car for the pleasure of having something “legacy” have been offering for over a decade
They clearly won't be adding anything new that requires sensors that they've removed from new cars but your idea is soundI think "where you're standing" and "intent" are different things. Obviously this is easier with USS, if USS tripped and keys, turn on camera and see if someone is looking at the camera. But anyway
If you've got the optional Tesla key, you can double press on the front of the "toy car" and open the frunk, which is pretty handy.
The car warns and refuses to drive at more than ~10mph if the frunk isn't detected as latched
OK so they are smart and have thought of you trying to drive off with the frunk open. Makes sense they would have done. I had to check it wouldn't let you drive off with the charging cable still plugged in as I had visions of the wife ripping the charger off the house some day as she drove off. Thankfully the Tesla engineers also must have wives as they've wife proofed the car
Apologies for saying this, but I often wonder how you got stuck with two cars that you clearly abhor?
I like that idea about the charging port, thumbs up from me.
Auto boot might not be perfect but my Discovery had it's kick sensors down the sides of the car (Needed there because tow bar in middle, some makes won't let you have kick sensor and towing at same time). It could go off though as you walked past the rear of the car say like in higher parking spots. You'd then have to get to it quickly sometimes incase it might hit something on the way up.
I believe so, my Lotus would beep every time you went 1mph over the limit. In the first software version though it didn't understand miles vs km's as the software is written in China so actually on a 30mph it would start bonging and warning you when you went over 18mph... It still didn't when I got rid of it in a lot of places, the Sat Nav on the main screen would be miles to next turn, the HUD would be km to next turn...
Looks like it’s starting to happen now as part of 2024.14 according to Tesla info
And….
And….
Thank God for that, they go to the effort of adding cameras in and then miss the one pretty much only reason anyone wants camera info in their cars anyway.
Now for the holiday update with custom chimes. You know it's coming
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