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Tesla is finally going to start charging for Mobile Internet
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kaiserpathos
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I agree - split-tunnel is the way to go to keep device traffic to Internet separate from the mothership pathing. Also +1 it's not the best use of their development time, even though it's probably not too difficult to implement. I think to the casual observer, who isn't their market but still pays attention, offering this as a feature down the line still makes sense. Low-priority to be sure. Much more lower-hanging fruit with the media player and other things.
I half-expect deeper dev pushes into all these areas on MCU2 platform at the very least, but probably not until well after 9.0 ships.
Agree, but is there anything preventing Tesla from jacking up the cost in the future? I could easily see them doubling or even tripling it a couple years down the road.
Since the car has WiFi, I wouldn't mind just using my own cell phone as a WiFi hotspot for the car (with the option to block certain types of data like software downloads or uploads, and instead run those on my home wifi at night).
Tesla already does this. For example, the browser in the Model S does not pass thru the VPN. The only thing to actually go over the VPN are requests to *.vn.teslamotors.com
Elon already said that likely won't happen because the receiver is too large, about the size of a pizza box. Not to mention that it would require adding hardware to old cars since they don't have the capability already.
Same here.
I don't think anyone has answered this.
When I've tried sound apps in the browser, they have been no-go. To use other music streaming services I do them via my phone. Since T-Mobile zero-rates audio streaming and the Bluetooth connection now supports high quality streaming via AAC, this sounds really nice and works quite well. I do wish there was better integration with the center console for this, but for now using the Google Assistant for voice control works pretty well for me.
What the heck is going on here? Tesla charging for internet, Supercharger cost goes up, FSD post-delivery goes to up to $5K. What's next?
I was surprised by these. Piss off current owners in order to lower the cost of entry a bit?
whitex
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Or not. Notice that nav in standard con package still gets all the information and uses it for routing, it just doesn't display it - so no difference in bandwidth costs. Same could apply for the app - will still connect and work as key or whatever, but if you want to control your car's HVAC or find it on an map, must pay for premium con package. The app may also let you view out of cameras some day, now that would be more bandwidth.
I don't think so. I think the traffic routing is done off-car on a Tesla server, so the traffic data is only ever downloaded to the car to be displayed, not to be used for routing.
jorobsand
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I think this changed with 2018.12:
"If traffic conditions change and there’s an alternate route that will save time, Navigation will automatically reroute you. As with the previous system, you can control how aggressively Navigation does this: just indicate how much time an alternate route should save by adjusting the setting in CONTROLS > Settings > Apps > Maps > Navigation > RE-ROUTE IF IT SAVES MORE THAN"
In line with 3 being the less expensive model. Plus, a motor, differential and two half shafts can't be costing that much to add to the car, so option margin has to be good .
whitex
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What makes you think so? Car will route just fine even when offline (no google map, but works on IC). Are you saying the car routes differently when online vs. offline. If you plan a route while offline and then LTE connects, does it reroute?
I thought no AWD ones have shipped yet.
When there was a price book change between my order date and delivery date, they adjusted my sales price at delivery. Book change was on Friday late in the afternoon and my pickup was Saturday. I am certain they will do the same here.
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