The Tesla owner says every update makes the car worse.
  • Thoralf Will ( thoralf@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
    60·
    2 years ago

    And he’s right. The Autopilot has not improved for the last 5 or so years. It rather has gotten worse. Phantom brakes are a nightmare and truly dangerous, the wind shield wiper is highly erratic and the lane departure warning is often just plain wrong and mostly annoying.

    I really regret buying this car. And that is not even counting the disastrous image issues caused by the wannabe-Göbbels that owns the company.

        • GrindingGears ( GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ) 
          15·
          2 years ago

          It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.

            • GrindingGears ( GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ) 
              1·
              2 years ago

              They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.

              But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I’d be furious. As a customer, I’m not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.

              What goes up, must come down I guess. Sigh.

              • sensiblepuffin ( sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech ) 
                1·
                2 years ago

                I don’t know whether they were ever the most reliable EV, I would maybe say they were the most established EV. The supercharger network is huge, and it’s maybe the only positive contribution that Tesla can say they’ve had on the landscape. Narcissistic sigma male wannabe aside, the goal of Tesla used to be to make a car that people would like, and now it’s ???.

                • GrindingGears ( GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ) 
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Don’t disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that’s what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There’s pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.

  • tal ( tal@lemmy.today ) English
    5·
    2 years ago

    “Where to find the time of day changes depending on what [driving] mode you’re in,” he said. “The buttons that go through your six favorite channels don’t work if it’s satellite radio channels. It takes so many tries to hit one button in your jiggly car, and it just doesn’t work.”

    Well, Woz. You’re famous for doing a universal control panel for another prominent piece of consumer electronics and figuring out how to interface it to lots of different brands.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote

    In 1987, the first programmable universal remote control was released. It was called the “CORE” and was created by CL 9, a startup founded by Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers.[2]

    All you had to do then was to reverse-engineer the infrared protocols used to communicate with the televisions.

    I bet that it’s probably possible to figure out a way to have a third-party control panel interface with various auto UIs. Like, build a universal interface, and then just design mounting hardware on a per-car basis? Use Android Auto or CarPlay, OBD-II, and such?

    Can Android Auto do climate control?

    kagis

    Sounds like it doesn’t, but may start being able to do so:

    https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-climate-controls-3533161/

    Android Auto could be about to turn up the heat (and AC) on car comfort

    Climate control may finally be coming to Google’s in-car interface.

    Android phones don’t have physical buttons for car features. But…that’s not a physical limitation. Just is a result of reusing a phone as a car panel.

    So instead of having third-party car computers being the province of a few hobbyist hardware hackers, there’s an out-of-box solution for everyone? Make the “Wozpanel” or whatever that I just mount in my car? Stick physical buttons on it? Maybe have a case and faceplate that wraps it to match interiors?

    • Midnitte ( Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English
      3·
      2 years ago

      There’s also Android Automotive that can do that (separate from Android Auto).

      The reason Tesla doesn’t use that, is because they want to control what you experience. There’s a reason you can’t use your own music provider.