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Tesla vehicles to get UI performance boost thanks to famed video game engineer

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Well that article is a lot less exciting than the headline would have you believe. John Carmack is going to fix up some of the crappy code in his 2012 Tesla because it's so bad he's decided to fix it himself.

>Also, it’s a step closer for Carmack to coming to work for Tesla.

Yeah, that's how I would convince Carmack to come work for Tesla, let him hack away on your shitty decade old MCU that was likely written by an intern anyway. As we all know, shitty MCU -> AGI. If I remember correctly this was the same MCU that would just log everything until it ran out of space and crashed right?

If anyone can make the graphics work better on the older hardware it’s Carmack so it’s exciting for early Model S adopters I guess.

Wouldn't it be even more exciting to use robust tech, as in a car that doesn't require any forms of sensors/firmware to begin with?

That would certainly be cheaper, safer and more ecological, in all cases.

Also, I doubt that there's much need to work his low level graphics optimisation magic like he did with Oculus. Something tells me that the interface is probably rendered in a browser and there's low hanging fruit all over the place.

This "article" is an amazing stretch, but I have shared Carmack's sentiment myself for many years. Although I finally just gave up and paid for the MCU upgrade, it always bothered me that (eMMC issue aside) Tesla couldn't get a Tegra 2 to run a slippy map and a music player without eating dirt. The Intel MCU hardware also frequently lags and stutters and locks up for a long time doing certain things like showing the car manual or browser.

Tesla owners need to stop giving the company a pass on their poor performing UI. Now you know why they really have a "gaming pc" in there!

Tesla is DOOMed!

Sorry, couldn’t resist editing the headline.

Sensationalist article based entirely on an off-the-cuff remark made by Carmack while visiting Elon in Boca Chica.

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