https://www.greencars.com/news/the-tesla-model-y-is-the-best...
And I think Tesla is destined to expand their lead.
Tesla is the only car company that pushes hard to be a software company. Musk correctly said that the future of Tesla mostly relies on how fast it achieves full self-driving without human intervention.
Buying any other car feels archaic. As a Tesla is the only car that gets better every few months via over the air updates.
"Better every few months"—yeah right.
He looked at me as if I was insane. And with some anger, he told me that if I consider those little pieces of junk with tiny sensors and lenses to become serious competition to real cameras, he just can't take me serious.
It's always the same story with software eating the world. At first, it is hard to believe that the software will play a larger and larger role and ultimately become more important than the hardware.
When mobility is a service you use via an app on your phone, it will be 100x more convenient than having to maintain a car yourself. Tap, and the robotaxi arrives in 5 minutes. Leave the car without having to care where to park. You won't be around when the car is in the car wash. It will go there by itself. And if something falls off, Tesla will deal with it, not you.
In regard to lenses, I can see that the phone lenses are still much smaller than those of standalone cameras.
And since cameras are less size constrained, why wouldn't they put bigger sensors into them?
And it's not only about lenses and sensors. All of the buttons and wheels are now pixels. And you can edit your photos right on a phone. And put them on social media. No teenager would ever swap their phone for a device without software to put the photos directly on Instagram.
> Tesla is going on the offensive for select vehicles that still have radar units installed and unplugging the sensors from customer cars during routine service appointments.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-quietly-disconnecting-ra...
How is that an improvement?
Compared to Lexus, sitting in a Tesla is like sitting in school bus...It feels cheap and uncomfortable...imo...
If hardware is software locked, this is pretty easy to accomplish.
>> Coming with next month's update - heated seats.
The heating coils were always there.
I’m still waiting for the suspension, road/wind noise, and AUTO WIPERS, to be fixed via software update. Model S Plaid, by the way.
Surely a million of them on the roads next year?
There's no future for Tesla then