As much as I agree with you in principle, I'm quite sure these sort of nonsense features are only given to new interns while they're training up to do real work. It's probably best to not let inexperienced people do work on the more critical software components (though plenty could be said about that...)
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Software Update 2018.48.x
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Pinot.Noir
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They released an update that is completely worthless. I would like to see updates with real meat...versus a few gimmicks. Maybe that intern could have worked on making the auto wipers actually work like the auto wipers on my sons $20k Mazda?
Well, my argument is there's a good chance they'd have likely made them worse.
Yep - just went from 2018.48.12 to 2018.49.20 this morning. First time I tried Romance Mode, though.
As I previously stated when I posted the notes...nothing new...
There are many ways to involve interns and new college graduate hires in the development process/cycle that will allow them to contribute to the official/formal/paid-for features. Good technical leads/managers create processes and understand their products in such a way to be able to fit a given worker into a productive situation. Despite it being a somewhat common practice, it is wasteful to invent trivial/irrelevant/throwaway tasks for any worker. Tesla has repeatedly demonstrated that they lack effective processes and have questionable management practices in their software development approach.
Anecdotally, I've never had to create "nonsense features" for any new hires on any team I've led. Everyone does "real work."
Shame. They'll never get to put "fart noises" on their resume.
Mjølner
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Have the same issues, plus many more.
I'm so fed up resetting the frozen screen up to 3 times a day.
Really love driving the car, but theese bugs kind of ruins everything....
Please Tesla, I need a new working update quite fast.
V9 was worse than worthless. it was a significant step backwards.
Worse than worthless, they've broken functions that used to work, they've caused a lot of frustration for owners needing to reset the MCU daily to get things to work, MCU's freezing up daily as well. The Easter eggs tell me they don't listen to customers grievances, who is asking for fireplaces and games when there is issues with the overall MCU operation?
MXFan
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Most likely the next significant release will be when we are all on MCU3....the new hardware capable of managing all 8 cameras at once and still have enough processing power to manage the neural network and other processes. I suspect the developers are mostly working on the new, but yet to be released, chipsets.
Actually the current releases are already using all 8 cameras. The marketing spiel that said they'd only use 4 for autopilot turned out to just be spiel, when in reality they figured out they'd need all of them.
Pinot.Noir
Member
And Tesla would have just released software that made it worse? That's a very sad position.
I can't tell if you're being serious. This basically reads like a parody of Tesla fans making excuses for Tesla.
If you're being serious, I'm not sure what you mean by "when we are all on MCU3". There is no MCU3, there's MCU2, and Tesla has said they're not upgrading MCU1 to MCU2. Probably you mean HW3, the new APE chipset? What about all the AP2 cars that aren't going to be upgraded to HW3? We just accept the bugs introduced by V9 for the rest of the time we own our cars?
Or maybe you mean that after they release HW3 they'll come back and fix the bugs in V9 for existing cars. That is a minimum of 6 months away, and if history is any predictor of the past, the first 12 months after HW3 release it will be buggy as heck and they will be spending all their time putting out fires (major bugs that brick cars) and struggling to reach parity with HW2/2.5 on stability and performance. So what you're saying then would seem to be that we should shut up and live with the V9 regressions for 18 months.
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ahkahn
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If firmware updates are as frequent as "every 2 weeks", it's going to be plenty of whiners saying "WTF, why don't they focus on releasing the stable version instead of every 2 weeks?"
Yep... read through the forum and you'll see plenty of that over the past several years. Personally, I like the leading edge revisions, and I'm willing to put up with a few bugs short term.
They need to split how things are rolled out then to accommodate everyone.
1 - Stable releases, all bugs fixed, all functions fully operational, updates every 3 or 4 months.
2 - Early releases, expect bugs, new features on test, updates every 3 or 4 weeks.
Currently we are somewhere between 1 and 2 and when you get the notification that an update is available you don't know what you are getting in terms of stability and functionality.
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