Tesla “Full Self Driving” Preview & Software Updates
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:27:26 +0000
Published on December 26th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
December 26th, 2019 by Johnna Crider
Originally published on My Tesla Adventure.
Twas the night before Christmas and 2:00 am. The only one stirring was Tesla’s Starman (Eli Burton), as he sat in his Tesla opening the gift that Santa Musk had given him.
Tesla’s New Full Self Driving Preview detects stop signs and intersection lights🚦video 🎥 by @EliBurton_ pic.twitter.com/DV4TWfEMXB
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) December 24, 2019
In the video above, Eli, aka Starman from My Tesla Adventure, gives us a preview of Tesla’s Full Self Driving technology and also a first look at Tesla’s latest software version 2019.40.50.1 update. Eli shows us several new and exciting things that came with this Christmas Eve update.
New settings have been added in this update, which will include navigation settings such as volume levels for navigation voice guidance as well as traffic display settings. Eli also points out how important Driver Profiles are for those who may share their car or have more than one Tesla. With this feature, Tesla makes sure that your car is exactly to your comfort levels from climate control to sound.
This would actually help Tesla owners in traffic to record proof of accidents that would help them in court. It would also remind us that sometimes honking is unnecessary and to be nicer to people on the road.
Adaptive Suspension Damping now has three tailored modes:
You can make your own music inside a Tesla! Just like with the Tesla sketchpad for drawing, you can make an “audio masterpiece” with TRAX. Eli pulls up the app and loads it onto the screen and is a bit excited at the fact that you can actually mix music. There is also a keyboard and Eli breaks out a two-second jam session with Beethoven.
With this feature, you can dictate text into your car as I do with Google Text to Speech. Now people will blame Tesla for their typos. This feature is accessible by the microphone icon on the keyboard (like on the phone).
Tesla Theater now lets you watch Twitch streams in the app.
Tesla enables your car to maintain airflow, temperature, interior lighting, and play music. You can also power your devices. This is the mode just for Eli because he loves camping in his Tesla. He explains why this update is vital. “It’s always been a little frustrating for me that when I want to power something from the car I have to leave the door open to trick the Tesla into leaving the power on.” Eli can’t wait to try out this new Camp Mode.
Your Tesla can now read your texts to you and you can send text messages by saying them out loud to the speakers in your Tesla and it will send them. Eli sends himself a test message in the video and it’s pretty funny to see Tesla helping him talk to himself.
You can say things like, “Show me the rear camera,” and it will show you the rear camera. These commands have been built to understand natural language. Tesla focused on commands that would minimize having to touch the screen so you can keep your eyes on the road. Reread that if you’re shorting Tesla. You can now tell your car to take you home or to your favorite restaurant and do many other things without having to touch thescreen. This may seem simple, but it’s a huge advancement in technology that helps contribute to safer driving. This is why Tesla is a tech company, not just a car company.
Tesla’s new update lets the car recognize traffic cones, stop signs and stop lines, trash cans, and stoplights and their colors, if you try to run a stop sign under autopilot the car emergency brakes and forces you to take over after pic.twitter.com/2GYuPEaXPV
— Ayman 📸 (@wholesnack) December 25, 2019
This preview shows us the Driving Visualization Improvements that show more new objects such as stoplights, stop signs, and select road markings that hadn’t yet been seen in previous versions of Autopilot. However, this is a preview, meaning that you are seeing improvements in the software but it’s still not yet FSD. So, remember to stop at the stop signs and red lights.
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Johnna Crider Johnna Crider is a Baton Rouge artist, gem and mineral collector, and Tesla shareholder who believes in Elon Musk and Tesla. Elon Musk advised her in 2018 to “Believe in Good.” Tesla is one of many good things to believe in. You can find Johnna on Twitter