[uk] UltraSonic Sensors removal/TV replacement performance

[doats1]

USS’s are pretty accurate in my experience. Certainly much more reliable than what I’m seeing in these TV version videos.

Seeing low curbs is a major advantage, but that seems to be the only improvement over the sensors.

Overall it’s a pretty poor implementation. No doubt it’ll improve; plenty of doubt it will reach parity.

 

[aq42]

Just dropped

 

[Zilla91]

Seeing low curbs is a major advantage

Yep. I'm hoping they fuse this with ultrasonics so that we get the best of both worlds

 

[aq42]

It's in. Too late to go playing tonight. No sign of Summon in the app though.

 

[MrBadger]

It's in. Too late to go playing tonight. No sign of Summon in the app though.

Auto park and summon etc are not part of this release. Just park assist, aka the ultrasonic sensor warning replacement.

 

[BigCutie]

Don't have FSD. Just the basic autopilot.

me too. ok i'll wait till they roll it out here in canada!

 

[Drew57]

Downloading:

 

[DaveW]

Downloading also, had to go manually check in the car as it decided it wasn’t going to wake up since I got back from the school run yesterday.

 

[EV_SteveA]

This forum would explode with (justifiable) fury if they went too fast and rolled out a broken update.. Slow rolling updates is one of the things Tesla does right.

I wonder if your Tesla has USS ? !

 

[EV_SteveA]

If the update gets pulled for whatever reason it would still reflect badly on Tesla so I'm not sure rolling out slowly would avoid the fury you speak of

I’d be pxxxxxxx if I don’t get a chance of even a half working solution. I paid for EAP and expect to have something for what I paid for

 

[MrBadger]

I’d be pxxxxxxx if I don’t get a chance of even a half working solution. I paid for EAP and expect to have something for what I paid for

This won’t give you the missing features of EAP. It’s just park assist which is the obstacle warning functionality.

 

[daveface]

Mine is scheduled in for tonight!! Let the beta testing begin!

 

[Mullermn]

Mine is scheduled in for tonight!! Let the beta testing begin!

Just installed it. Now trying to decide if it’s acceptable for an adult to go out for a drive just to play with their car.

 

[Medved_77]

Now trying to decide if it’s acceptable for an adult to go out for a drive just to play with their car.

Always.

 

[Drew57]

Well, so far it has worked - kerbs (& other cars beside you when waiting in queues) dance around and wiggle with the yellow/red lines we used to have with USS but the shape is continually changing. Even when parking up against a flat surface like a wall, the lines are wavy and curve away round the side, from red to yellow.

It does detect kerbs and show the yellow-red lines when driving as the car gets close which may or may not prove useful. Time will tell.

Distance measurements and audible warnings happen when moving close to obstructions but they do seem to be quite cautious. I can move much closer to a car or wall etc in front even after the line becomes red and the audible warning suggests stopping.

 

[Mullermn]

It appears that Tesla think that everyone in the UK uses imperial units for distance! I’ve set my region format to Ireland which has changed the distance reading to cm.

Any better way of doing that, and are there any consequences to doing that I’ve not thought of?

 

[Jason71]

It appears that Tesla think that everyone in the UK uses imperial units for distance! I’ve set my region format to Ireland which has changed the distance reading to cm.

Any better way of doing that, and are there any consequences to doing that I’ve not thought of?

presumably the range will change to Kilometers from Miles and the Satnav will show KM as well

 

[Ozboz7]

2023.6.9 brings "park assist" - no it's not autopark, but the long awaited replacement for ultrasonic sensors removal.

Currently installing on wife's M3RWD (no USS) but no update available on mine (has USS).

Thought a place away from the general USS removal thread would be good to discuss its function, rather than reasons for removal / forming legal action, so please keep it objective

 

[Mullermn]

My initial review is that it’s definitely better than nothing, it is in a useful state (it’s not just a ‘technology preview’) and it feels like there’s potential there for it to be a lot more sophisticated than just giving dumb distance readings.

That said I think it could benefit from further refinement as at the moment it seems to lean heavily on the safe side to the extent that I wouldn’t say I really need the distance indicator in the places where it’s providing one, because I can judge that size gap myself. Once to get close it just panics and tells you to stop (this was also generally true of USS).

I’m fairly happy since the main thing I need in parking assistance is not ‘you have 2.5 cm left’ but more ‘watch out for that thing you haven’t even noticed yet and are about to swing in to’ and it seems to do that. And kerb detection might be the thing that finally gets me to call off the fatwa I put on the guy who came up with the idea of alloy wheels.

 

[Speedking99887]

2023.6.9 brings "park assist" - no it's not autopark, but the long awaited replacement for ultrasonic sensors removal.

Currently installing on wife's M3RWD (no USS) but no update available on mine (has USS).

Thought a place away from the general USS removal thread would be good to discuss its function, rather than reasons for removal / forming legal action, so please keep it objective

Are you based in the UK still waiting for that update the sooner the better