v8.0 release coming in a few weeks, details later today!

[xav-]

I had a boss once who had an unusual attitude about deadlines. He did want us to try to meet them, but he emphasized that "People will remember how well you do sometime a lot longer than they will remember whether or not it was on time."
So I try to remember that.
There are exceptions, of course. We don't want our surgeons to be late doing emergency life-saving surgery, etc. But a one-day or 2-day or even a 5-day delay in publishing a blog post, however interesting, won't measurably affect the quality of our lives...

Was that boss Elon Musk??

 

[Bishop]

The Space X accident will have zero impact on 8.0 release. They're two different companies. Do you think Elon is writing code for 8.0? The software team at Tesla have nothing to do with rockets or Space X.

the good news is it was during testing and no one was hurt .. have they stated a cause yet?

 

[RogerHScott]

"People will remember how well you do sometime a lot longer than they will remember whether or not it was on time."

Does that include how well you can manage your schedule, or how well you can tell the truth?

 

[Bladerunner]

Do we get to >10 pages before the blog post?

Keep going...

 

[jeffro01]

As much as I love Tesla, and defend it at times when few else will, I highly doubt 8.0 is going to remotely live up to the hype that's been manufactured for it...

At this point I'd simply take the current HVAC settings\actions to be displayed front and center like they used to be prior to 7... LOL

Jeff

 

[anxman]

plot twist: SpaceX rocket was running 8.0 firmware beta

 

[S4WRXTTCS]

Ugh, now with the SpaceX rocket explosion this thread isn't as funny anymore.

 

[Chopr147]

I still need time to tinker with the 7.0 so at least I will know what I had updated.

 

[zambono]

Uhmmm... what exactly are you suggesting was that third party dependency that Elon did not account for that prevented information from being posted on Tesla website on Wednesday (which is what this thread is about)?

the delivery of the 3 is what I was talking about before 2018

 

[twonius]

Man. I already ordered new emblems and everything

 

[Bladerunner]

Man. I already ordered new emblems and everything

Yeah, and V8 will include fake sound:

Ugh

 

[jlanceho]

Looks like we will be waiting a few more days...

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Finishing Autopilot blog postponed to end of weekend

 

[andrewket]

Elon Musk on Twitter

Blog post delayed until end the weekend per Elon :/

 

[Mattzilla]

 

[RogerHScott]

Yeah, and V8 will include fake sound:

Ugh

Where's the artificial hydrocarbon smell to go with it? Do they also offer spray-on engine grease?

Only someone who's never experienced the "purity" of the Tesla experience would even imagine they
wanted such things. Ugh, indeed!

 

[liuping]

Only someone who's never experienced the "purity" of the Tesla experience would even imagine they wanted such things. Ugh, indeed!

Personally I love the silence, but it would be fun to have fake sounds on occasions. It would be great when I give demo rides to friends/coworkers. Start with it on, then 1/2 through kill the sound and bask in the silence of the future.

Every person I've given a ride to has been extremely impressed with the Model S, but at least 1/3 of them comment on missing the engine sounds when accelerating. Adding decent fake engine noise inside the car is trivial (a great job for an intern programmer) and I'm positive it would add a few more sales to old school car people who are not quite ready to go silent in a $100k+ performance car just yet..

 

[twonius]

Personally I love the silence, but it would be fun to have fake sounds on occasions. It would be great when I give demo rides to friends/coworkers. Start with it on, then 1/2 through kill the sound and bask in the silence of the future.

Every person I've given a ride to has been extremely impressed with the Model S, but at least 1/3 of them comment on missing the engine sounds when accelerating. Adding decent fake engine noise inside the car is trivial (a great job for an intern programmer) and I'm positive it would add a few more sales to old school car people who are not quite ready to go silent in a $100k+ performance car just yet..

I kind of like the lack of noise for spirited driving.

My first EV experience was na iMiev and you could drive the wheels off that thing without anyone looking at you sideways (also likely because you weren't actually going that fast, but it felt like it!)

Most fast cars today are pretty quiet anyways due to turbos and noise regs (except maybe Jags and AMGs).

That said, I wouldn't mind a V8 Vantage as a weekend car though.

 

[RogerHScott]

If the interior of your car is silent while you're giving a test drive that just means you're not mashing the accelerator hard enough

 

[Apricot]

I completely understand that Musk has much more urgent things to attend to but isn't there ANYONE ELSE at the company who could draft it??

 

[RogerHScott]

I completely understand that Musk has much more urgent things to attend to but isn't there ANYONE ELSE at the company who could draft it??

Single-point-of-failure much?