I got it! 8.0(2.36.108) downloaded last night, applied this morning. Few notes on the downloading: I happened to be tinkering with my router and noticed a flow of 6-8 Mbps going to my car. It lasted about four minutes, terminating at around 23:22 PDT last night. That works out (if my math is correct) to somewhere on the order of about a 200 MB (that includes protocol overheads, etc.). After about 30 minutes I still hadn't gotten a a notification on my iPhone, so I went out to the car to check, and no alarm clock. I am sure my wife thought I was completely bonkers. At 00:11 (so that's about 50 minutes after the download finished) I finally got a notification, but decided I'd just go to sleep and deal with the upgrade in the morning. This morning I started the upgrade at 06:15 and it finished at 07:23.
Initial impressions: I'm kind of meh on the user interface reskinning...it really doesn't matter to me one way or the other. (My son hates the new icons and squared-off UI buttons.)
If you play with the new checkboxes for the trip counters / odometer, you'll see an example of the complexity I alluded to in an earlier post (which earned me a dislike from someone who apparently disagrees from me). The UI forces you to have at least one but no more than three of the odometer-type items selected (including "this trip", "Trip A", "Trip B", and odometer). You'll see the checkboxes get enabled and disabled correctly as you change the number of items checked. It's a bit subtle, and someone had to actually think about this a bit. And I think they did it correctly, so "nice job" to the anonymous engineers at Tesla who implemented this part.
I did AP for a short freeway stretch on the way to work. It did feel a little smoother but there could be some confirmation bias in that. I can see where having the radar see a few cars ahead has value, although that wasn't demonstrated on this trip due to the fact that traffic around me was traveling at roughly constant speed. I noticed the car nudging over slightly away from cars I was passing, though I wonder how well that would work with the area under a 40-foot semi-truck trailer.
The Nav autozoom in and out distracted me the first time I saw it but I tuned it out. I'm used to Waze doing the same thing, so no big deal. I wonder if the map redraws might push me over the edge to do the LTE upgrade on my car, since the MCU has to fetch rescaled map tiles a lot more than it used to.
I didn't play with the media player much. I like the use of built-in album art, but my son doesn't like the new interface. (As you can guess it was an interesting discussion on the way to school today.) I found some weird behavior I didn't notice before. I was listening to AM radio (stop laughing), but muted with the left scrollwheel as I got close to my destination. I was backing into a parking spot, then pressed the "Park" button on the, um, gearshift (what do you call the right stalk?). At this point the radio unmuted for a fraction of a second (I could hear one or two words) and then remuted. Awhile back someone posted about not being able to mute when backing up, I wonder if this is somehow related to that "feature". Anyway I'll be sending this paragraph off to ServiceHelpNA@ as a bug report.
Bruce.
