Oh, well, as a long time software/hardware engineer, I think I can appreciate the issues, and I'm always amazed at the bitterness of some posters in this forum.
Why on earth would you drive a car that you disrespect so much, made by such an incompetent company? If you haven't yet chewed or punched through the accoutrements,
I'll gladly buy it from you - at the low value that you place on it
Album art from USB sticks is not something I've paid attention to, I watch the road. It could have been dropped from the design for many reasons. Why critical, or a sign of bad software, or diabolical?
And what's this about the User Manual? Granted, the PDF rendering is crude, but it's never crashed the system on me. I just went out and spent 20 minutes entering through the Service and Software pages, and navigating around, with the car both in idle and ready to go. No crash. Could someone who's really having this issue kindly provide bona fide info on how to reproduce the problem, you know, in accordance with good software practices.
It's a long OT subject, but looking at the industry I don't see any of the old car companies eating Tesla's lunch any time soon. I'm thankful to my wife for having talked me into test-driving the Model 3, with its unusual spartan interior, then sticking with getting to know the NOA system, that
was initially frightening.
She's a smart woman, and she knows me. I'm a nervous driver with a lot of blind-spot anxiety. Now that I'm very comfortable with (attentively) riding the automation (and not masochistically looking for edge cases it can't handle), it's making it practical for me to drive in freeway lane change and merge situations where my deodorant was failing before
This doesn't come dirt-cheap, but the Freeway NOA is literally a blessing and a joy. I can't imagine pointlessly driving bumper to bumper on pedals and steering wheel now.
It's going to be a good while before any of the old-school car makers, who bolt and weld their first generation EVs together from their ICE parts bins, even come close in the critical AI functionality. Maybe if I didn't have/use the automation and I preferred an interior with more cow hide, dials and more doodads, I would see it differently. But I'm watching the NOA now driving tighter and better with successive updates. Certainly better than me. I'm sure it's a high pressure job with problems, but somebody is doing something right in that Tesla sweatshop.
So, who's going to sell me their crappy despised Model 3 for a song (a song with no album cover art)?
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