S4WRXTTCS
Well-Known Member
I am envious of people who don’t have to worry about traffic all the time while they are driving.
It's really situationally dependent on whether someone has to use nav. For me any trip that isn't within 5-10 miles is going to be maps centric because of traffic.
My primary beefs with navigation/maps is that's it's not where it really needs to be in order to earn a locked spot on the top of the center screen.
As a result it's not creating the kind of bonding with the user that it should.
Here are some examples:
It doesn't use pattern recognition to know where I'm driving even if I drive there every M-F at the same time. It would be nice if it had some AI assistant that checked the route to work, and let me know if there was any issue on my common route.
The car doesn't have V2V communication so it doesn't know about traffic ahead without having a cell connection. The car doesn't even warn me about traffic suddenly slowing down a mile or two ahead. Instead I have to glance at the nav screen occasionally. The V2V communication is going to be an increasingly important element of driving because it allows the car to know what's up ahead from not just other cars, but the infrastructure itself (built into traffic lights, roads, etc).
A lot of times it doesn't even have the speed limit correct. Of course people blame AP, but it's really the failure on Tesla in having good maps, and keeping them up to date. The AP should only be there to act as a verification of something the car already knows or a way to trigger the Tesla maps team to update something if the two conflict.
There is no version number of the maps, or a way of manually updating them if one doesn't always connect the car to wifi.
It doesn't display the location of cops or emergency vehicles on the display like waze does. It also doesn't have any reporting features when it could be as easy as pressing a single button. It could have much better waze integration.
Tesla has to make a much more concentrated effort to improve Nav/maps before it really earns the spot.
Like easily being able to do way points.
But, even with improvements and with user bonding you're still going to have the case of the person who just wants to drive the car with whatever they want on the center screen as it's an auxiliary screen.
The funny thing is what's driven the discussion was really another UI/UX failure by Tesla. That failure was not putting proper radar based blind spot monitoring in the mirrors. This failure has resulted in people finding work arounds. My workaround is to accept that the car doesn't have it, and I just use my mirrors along with routing my head. Other people use the rear-view display.
With AP2 they can improve blindspot/side monitoring/protection through audible, and heptic feedback (using the steering wheel). They should also always show a red line if you can't safely switch lanes. I don't know how precise it can be about that because I don't know if it's currently capable of estimating speed of the incoming car like it could if it was radar based.