Next year, when FSD is out, at least you'll be able to manually add your waypoints one at a time while underway without danger of crashing. Just the same way you'll be able to safely manually execute a playlist one song at a time from your USB device.
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We really need multiple waypoints in the Nav
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Knightshade
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Probably not, since Elon was pretty clear that those features will all remain at Level 2 (Driver must always be in control and prepared to fully take over, with hands on wheel, at all times) until regulations catch up and that's very very very unlikely to happen next year no matter how good FSD gets by then.
RIght...I knew it wouldn't put Waze on the actual screen, but it doesn't send the navigation to my Tesla interface at all...when I click share, and click on the Tesla app I get an "unknown error occurred. Please try again later" message. I did a manual reset of the computer on Saturday and have yet to try it again. Hmm.
Knightshade
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Yeah but that doesn't help with the travelling salesman problem... (which Garmin also had solved in 2004)
If you have to go run errands to 5 different places, you can put them into a 15 year old Garmin and it'll plot the most efficient route to get between them automatically.
Tesla? You can't even manually add 5 stops. Or 2.
I remember the car I traded in for my 3 (Acura TL) was packed to the gills with all these crazy navigation features. Not just optimized multi-waypoint and alternate routes, but it could route around bad weather, you could set it to avoid certain streets or arbitrary areas (by drawing polygons on the map), it could search some X distance around a planned route for POIs, it had persistent "breadcrumbs" denoting your path when driving off-road, tons of settings and customization, and even a database of scenic roads to drive on. Of course most of these features were buried in a convoluted directory of menus and probably most users never even saw most of them, and you had $200/year map update DVDs, but it's still hard to see Tesla's navigation as anything but barebones. Hopefully it'll get some love in V10.
Featuritis ... Feature creep - Wikipedia ... if you can't get a feature in a system in a way the user can access simply and intuitively, then its rarely worth the complexity it brings, and can actually detract from overall utility once there's a bunch of such "features" layered on top of each other. While I agree with some level of waypointing, that Acura as you describe it sounds way over the top!
I also use an app called inRoute. It is the most sophisticated route planner I've found. Very flexible. The basic program is free. You can export to other formats.
Knightshade
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Unless I can export the entire route to the in-car nav it doesn't really solve the issue though.
brucet999
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It's fun? None of that sounds like fun to me, just a complicated work-around requiring me to have a tablet.
Fun would be a Tesla Nav that allowed one to add way points; not just additional superchargers, but side trips off the arbitrarily selected route in Nav. I can do that on a cell phone on Google earth by dragging the offered route to an alternate of my choice (maybe a scenic route, or a side trip to Bodie, etc.). Should be simple for Tesla to add that little bit of code. After all, Nav can already re-draw its route in response to my ignoring part of its route.
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