It has been a ~couple years, but I noticed only 1, er 2, folks ever identify SCs as deploying staged updates, against their wishes. I think the techs had kind of a creed, not to. It was probably CA. They won’t say.
You could say I “took my chances”, going in for a frunk recall and parking within WiFi range. Now, I’m affirming a slam: For instance, If you don’t want short-cuts to version 11’s games, as seat heat gets pushed to a sub-menu, don’t leave your car at Tesla overnight. (IMO, V10 to V11 is nothing compared to V8 to V9).
Digression: Tesla tracks us and knew lumbar wasn’t being used by passengers. So, they removed it. But seat heat, to a sub-menu that toggles a ~5KW heating system whenever accessed? In comparison, seat heat elements operate at <~100 watts. Like heated steering wheels, easy use is part of eeking out range in an EV. It makes no sense, being harder and more consequential than operating seat heat in a gas-car (cough, with a button).
There are still LTE cards, that can retrofit Ver8 cars w/o requiring firmware. So, maintaining nav-traffic, cell data, etc., was the (3rd party) plan.
My own video about Ver9, years ago, is up to a whopping ~150 views. Lost functionality:
I got car back, on 10.2. So, add regen to lost features. We’ve had another MS on 10.2 for a long time. This impending loss was another reason not to “update”. It is starkly lower, and for substantially longer, as if to give up on one-pedal driving in
cold cool climates during daily use (<20 miles). Even 58F (today).
Version 9 (&10) maps feature lower contrast (greys). Version 11 is reported to use smaller fonts. The pattern, atop everything in the video, takes my eyes further from the road for longer. It does so for a company priding itself on the relative safety of ADAS, versus air-bag deployments while driving manually.
This pattern is older than center mounted displays and yoke steering wheels. At least, with those you knew what you were buying.
