Tesla seems to be into good "experiences" and "conveniences"... being the California company that it is, here's a few things that bug me and could be solved with some geo-location sensibility and definition of a "home" location, information that is already available to the car:
1) When the car is parked in home location (garage) and I want to get something out of it I need to run and grab the key to get the handles to present. Want: When the car is at home in the garage I want the handles remaining extended all day long, car unlocked, ready to pull. Or maybe, if I use fob to unlock car with button presses while at home, handles STAY that way extended (and their little LEDs can go off) until I lock the car with the fob. Or if that can't be done, then my second choice is to ditch the auto-present handles altogether when the car is in my garage... just "mute" the feature. Make me touch the handle or explicitly unlock with fob to present handles. Then my many passes-by while working in the garage won't be doing needless handle spinning. It's cute the first 100 times, then... it's a wear item.
2) When I'm arriving home and driving into my garage during the day, the car senses going into darkness and turns on the headlights automatically, (my switch stays on auto), only to have the headlights go off two seconds later when I put the car in Park and get out. Cycling headlamps on/off is the hardest part in their lifecycle. Want: If my headlights aren't already on when I'm driving into the garage, leave them off. At night, when my headlights are automatically on and I drive into the garage, fine, leave them on. Conversely, when hopping in and leaving the garage in the morning, WAIT a bit until car senses I'm leaving that location before it samples darkness to determine if headlights need to be automatically on.
A) This one not strictly related to being at home, I always want this anywhere. When I park the car and get out... all the exterior lights go dark immediately. Want: keep a full perimeter of lighting ON not just door handle lamps (if/when daylight sensor says it's dark) for a minute or so, or until the fob goes out of range. Let me see my way to the door! This is a feechur on much lesser cars and missing on Tesla S. Tesla is half way there... because on the flipside, when I am approaching the car and it senses the fob handles present and other perimeter lighting turn on to help me see around the car to get into the car. Just need to finish the job on this one.
4) Geo-locate mirror folding actions, like air suspension does. Doing this in a general sense would be best because there are other frequented locations like parking at work where this may be necessary. But if that can't be done in the general sense, then make it part of the "at home" preference set, and let the user decide if mirrors should be folded going into the garage and unfolded automatically when the car determines it is leaving the location.
5) When I'm at home, I have different charging needs. Nissan Leaf is better in this area. Want: user sets up a profile that automatically sets their charge preferences. E.g. for me, on weekdays set charge range limit to 80%, charge rate 40A is fine, scheduled to begin charge after midnight or when it gets plugged in, whichever is first ... And on weekends, for me, range to 90% limit, rate 80A and charge-now (not scheduled). When I'm not at home, on any given day weekday or weekend I want charge limit 90% unschedule / "now", pulling maximum. When I'm more than 100km radius from home, charge limit bumps to 100% maximum rate. Set and forget, probably for the life of the car. I just manage the exceptions, when I know I'm going on trip from home and want 100% I'll take the time to do so... as part of my trip preparation. Suggestion: allow setting up very flexible schedules that aren't limited to "weekday vs. weekend" choices... every day of the week has its own flexibility. Allow user to define as many time brackets as they want, and don't try to use AI and outsmart or "learn" user patterns... eesh.
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you probably have some frequent "diddling" you do at home, and "undo" when not at home... feel free to add to this list!
Cheers
Scott
1) When the car is parked in home location (garage) and I want to get something out of it I need to run and grab the key to get the handles to present. Want: When the car is at home in the garage I want the handles remaining extended all day long, car unlocked, ready to pull. Or maybe, if I use fob to unlock car with button presses while at home, handles STAY that way extended (and their little LEDs can go off) until I lock the car with the fob. Or if that can't be done, then my second choice is to ditch the auto-present handles altogether when the car is in my garage... just "mute" the feature. Make me touch the handle or explicitly unlock with fob to present handles. Then my many passes-by while working in the garage won't be doing needless handle spinning. It's cute the first 100 times, then... it's a wear item.
2) When I'm arriving home and driving into my garage during the day, the car senses going into darkness and turns on the headlights automatically, (my switch stays on auto), only to have the headlights go off two seconds later when I put the car in Park and get out. Cycling headlamps on/off is the hardest part in their lifecycle. Want: If my headlights aren't already on when I'm driving into the garage, leave them off. At night, when my headlights are automatically on and I drive into the garage, fine, leave them on. Conversely, when hopping in and leaving the garage in the morning, WAIT a bit until car senses I'm leaving that location before it samples darkness to determine if headlights need to be automatically on.
A) This one not strictly related to being at home, I always want this anywhere. When I park the car and get out... all the exterior lights go dark immediately. Want: keep a full perimeter of lighting ON not just door handle lamps (if/when daylight sensor says it's dark) for a minute or so, or until the fob goes out of range. Let me see my way to the door! This is a feechur on much lesser cars and missing on Tesla S. Tesla is half way there... because on the flipside, when I am approaching the car and it senses the fob handles present and other perimeter lighting turn on to help me see around the car to get into the car. Just need to finish the job on this one.
4) Geo-locate mirror folding actions, like air suspension does. Doing this in a general sense would be best because there are other frequented locations like parking at work where this may be necessary. But if that can't be done in the general sense, then make it part of the "at home" preference set, and let the user decide if mirrors should be folded going into the garage and unfolded automatically when the car determines it is leaving the location.
5) When I'm at home, I have different charging needs. Nissan Leaf is better in this area. Want: user sets up a profile that automatically sets their charge preferences. E.g. for me, on weekdays set charge range limit to 80%, charge rate 40A is fine, scheduled to begin charge after midnight or when it gets plugged in, whichever is first ... And on weekends, for me, range to 90% limit, rate 80A and charge-now (not scheduled). When I'm not at home, on any given day weekday or weekend I want charge limit 90% unschedule / "now", pulling maximum. When I'm more than 100km radius from home, charge limit bumps to 100% maximum rate. Set and forget, probably for the life of the car. I just manage the exceptions, when I know I'm going on trip from home and want 100% I'll take the time to do so... as part of my trip preparation. Suggestion: allow setting up very flexible schedules that aren't limited to "weekday vs. weekend" choices... every day of the week has its own flexibility. Allow user to define as many time brackets as they want, and don't try to use AI and outsmart or "learn" user patterns... eesh.
...
you probably have some frequent "diddling" you do at home, and "undo" when not at home... feel free to add to this list!
Cheers
Scott