The Tesla Thread

It's a physical key (I was shocked too), looks a bit like a locker key:cry:. It's untethered, but ice got a proper charger at home so I'm just going to use that. Also its not free, I'd have to pay for how much I use (although it's not monitored so I could be creative). Work have only just renewed the supplier and can't tell me how much it will ve anyway.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
No CarPlay, No matrix lights, no cooled seats, no camera mirror options, no 360 surround, no HUD display so that does get tiresome.
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The newer Model 3s do have Matrix headlights, just they haven’t had the matrix features enabled yet. Possibly as they were, until recently, not legal in the US.

EVH said:
Good to know.

I binned off the Tesla Spotify login ages ago in favour of my own. Picked up one of those eBay gift cards for a year of premium Spotify so I could track my own listening history and sync on other devices.
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I have a family Spotify sub so just used a spare slot on that to setup an account for using in the car. I then just share playlists etc from my personal Spotify account to the cars account.
 
TheOracle said:
I think when people talk about Tesla tech, it's not so much around matrix lights, 360 camera, seating etc etc but things like the brilliant mobile app, summon, sentry, self driving, netflix app and the like. Tesla are years ahead.
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So they are years ahead for all the crap that is not fundamental to the driving experience, like being able to see well at night, good visibility when parking and general comfort but its ok as I can watch Netflix while Im charging
 
Is there a limit to how much dashcam footage is stored. I'm going to Google, but I noticed yesterday it only saved about the last half of my journey. I'd quite like it to work as a traditional dashcam where it just goes until the drive is full.
 
theone8181 said:
Is there a limit to how much dashcam footage is stored. I'm going to Google, but I noticed yesterday it only saved about the last half of my journey. I'd quite like it to work as a traditional dashcam where it just goes until the drive is full.
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The TeslaCam folder contains three sub-folders:

  • Recent Clips: When recording, Dashcam continuously saves footage to Recent Clips in 60-minute cycles. Footage is overwritten every hour unless you manually save it. Four videos are recorded for each clip, one from each camera (front, rear, left, and right).
 
paradigm said:
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The TeslaCam folder contains three sub-folders:

  • Recent Clips: When recording, Dashcam continuously saves footage to Recent Clips in 60-minute cycles. Footage is overwritten every hour unless you manually save it. Four videos are recorded for each clip, one from each camera (front, rear, left, and right).
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The weird thing is that my drive is only 30 mins and there was only footage of the last 15 mins or so. All I wanted was to show somebody the footage of a wagon almost wiping someone out. I'll check that I've got it setup right too.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
thanks for confirming the features they don’t have are the ones that I said they didn’t…

Like heated seats I’m expecting features over the air.
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Well the point is the hardware is there, it just needs a software update to enable them. Unlike a typical car where you either have the Matrix headlights (sometimes at increased cost) or you don’t.
 
I know how cars work.

just means you have matrix headlamps in your “basket” as repair items for Thatcham ratings and that unfortunately can push insurance prices up features the car doesn’t have.

Is this the same technology readiness people have spent money on for features that haven’t actually turned up? FSD I’m looking at you…
 
sparkymark75 said:
Well the point is the hardware is there, it just needs a software update to enable them. Unlike a typical car where you either have the Matrix headlights (sometimes at increased cost) or you don’t.
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Interesting you point that out as just over a week ago NHTSA approved matrix lighting in the USA, which has been waiting approval for a good while. This should allow Tesla to now activate the matrix lights in all market places, and looking at it they have been fitting them to Model 3's for over a year now, so a nice upgrade for those who bought it without that feature.

It's also interesting to see that Tesla re the only automotive manufacturer offering to upgrade their 3G modems, you can upgrade older Model S cars so you can keep/improve functionality due to networks switching off 3G, US price is $200, so cheaper than BMW/Jag/Merc charge for a software update to their maps.
 
Journey said:
It's also interesting to see that Tesla re the only automotive manufacturer offering to upgrade their 3G modems, you can upgrade older Model S cars so you can keep/improve functionality due to networks switching off 3G, US price is $200, so cheaper than BMW/Jag/Merc charge for a software update to their maps.
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That’s not actually true. I know that some BMW owners are being offered modem replacement on eligible cars.
 
Journey said:
It's also interesting to see that Tesla re the only automotive manufacturer offering to upgrade their 3G modems, you can upgrade older Model S cars so you can keep/improve functionality due to networks switching off 3G, US price is $200, so cheaper than BMW/Jag/Merc charge for a software update to their maps.
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Sorry which map updates are these Jaguar charge for? The free ones you stick on a USB stick or since 21MY the ones that get uploaded over the air from the HERE database? In the stats the updates for those without data packs and not technically inclined is $179.

Since 2019 they have 4G data anyway. Atleast its not GM onstar :p
 
Needed to detour one the way home to pick up somebody, took a great drive across B roads really enjoying the car (M3LR with AB). Great fun pulsing out of the bends and regen back into the next with a dab of brake where needed, the car really holds its weight well too and you really have to work to overwhelm it. Real feel of all wheel drive too as you push around the bend and take off again, all helped by the music being up loud :D
I don't care what others say, its really a great car to drive :)
 
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