Odometer display on main homescreen?

[Bijli Ki Rani]

Hello all,

New member and owner of a new Model 3 purchased in the summer of 2022. I'm not the most adept at keeping up with Tesla features but today I noticed that something I have long wanted has suddenly showed up on the homescreen at bottom left: an odometer display showing total miles and distance and time of current trip. Was this part of a recent upgrade? Or has it been there for a while and I've just not noticed it (seems unlikely).

Thanks!

BkR

 

[jjrandorin]

It was part of whatever update brought those cards back, in the area you see it. Maybe roughly a year?

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

But I swear I've never seen it there before. Or is is that usually it's the media from my bluetooth connected phone that shows up there and today somehow it switched to a different card when I started the car?

 

[jjrandorin]

But I swear I've never seen it there before. Or is is that usually it's the media from my bluetooth connected phone that shows up there and today somehow it switched to a different card when I started the car?

There are 3 cards there, media (what you probably always have there), the mileage display, and also a tire pressure one. You can swipe between them.

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

Thanks. I wish I'd known before.

And now that I've got this feature I've always wanted, I'm going to be greedy and complain that it only shows trip miles in whole numbers--why not show us more accurate distances? Is there a way to set it so the trip miles tick up in tenths of a mile and not start only when you've driven 1 mile and then jump a mile at a time?

 

[jjrandorin]

Thanks. I wish I'd known before.

And now that I've got this feature I've always wanted, I'm going to be greedy and complain that it only shows trip miles in whole numbers--why not show us more accurate distances? Is there a way to set it so the trip miles tick up in tenths of a mile and not start only when you've driven 1 mile and then jump a mile at a time?

Not that I have seen, no.

 

[dusty22]

The energy app shows tenths if you need that information.

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

well, i don't know why they can't just add one decimal place to the main odometer readout (as even the 10 year old minivan i replaced with this did) instead of putting it somewhere else.

 

[Kevy Baby]

Is there a way to set it so the trip miles tick up in tenths of a mile and not start only when you've driven 1 mile and then jump a mile at a time?

I'm just curious: WHY do you want this? I am not being negative; I just don't understand the need for that?

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

Um, for those times that you're curious just how far away from your house the grocery store/gym/pharmacy/whatever is in terms of actual driving distance? Or to calculate the distance of a walking route along a road?

I can't be the only one who uses his car to measure distances. Right now 1.1 and 1.9 both show up as 1. 2.1 and 2.9 are both 2 and so on. It's not the end of the world--it's just a minor annoyance that I notice on a daily basis. And as much as I like this car, it does offer a lot of minor annoyances...

 

[jjrandorin]

I can't be the only one who uses his car to measure distances.

20-30 years ago I used my car for this (and used tomas brothers guides as my "navigation") but if I want to know how far something is now, I use my phone. I havent found a reason to need to know tenths in my car, while I was moving.

Walking directions are also on my phone.

The car does have some annoyances, sure, but for me, this one isnt one of them.

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

If you drive from point A to point B and then wonder--for whatever stupid reason--how long/short the distance was, you'd look at your phone, instead of at your odometer which is giving you almost all but not the exact info for some reason?

Anyway, I did say it was a minor annoyance.

 

[jjrandorin]

If you drive from point A to point B and then wonder--for whatever stupid reason--how long/short the distance was, you'd look at your phone, instead of at your odometer which is giving you almost all but not the exact info for some reason?

Anyway, I did say it was a minor annoyance.

I mean, to answer your question, if I wondered how far it was it would show on my navigation (I navigate everywhere) to an accuracy that I am comfortable with (+/- 1 mile). If I wanted more accurate than that (say I am trying to exercise and want to know how far it is to walk there or something) then I would use my phone.

Note though, I am just saying "for me". Everyone has different hot button things.

 

[Bijli Ki Rani]

Yes, I get it. It's just that a) I am a very lazy person, and b) these things are rarely premeditated anyway. If I get somewhere, or while I am passing some place, and I wonder "hmm I wonder how far that is from where I started out", a more precise "this trip"--or whatever it's called in that card--distance readout would do the job without having to have set navigation before or go into my phone after.

 

[Kevy Baby]

Note though, I am just saying "for me".

And me