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Why Did Tesla Revert Back to Location-Based Smart Air Suspension Being the Default Each Time?

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Ostrichsak

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Sep 6, 2018
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This is SO annoying for those of us that don't live in perfect weather sunny SoCal.

With a (somewhat) recent update they reverted the SaS back to the previous way it works where the default is to try to remember your location EVERY time you adjust the height. This is such a terrible way to go about this as those of us who live in colder climates constantly have to raise/lower our ride height based on ground clearance. This isn't a location-based situation and is more a time-of-the-year and weather pattern thing.

It was a great quality of life update a couple years ago when they made it so that default was to NOT store the location/height but to offer a quick tap on the screen to save it. If you want to save a location you tap the screen once and never again. Stored. Simple. If you don't want to store it, you simply do nothing. It's SUCH a simple way for this feature to process. It's easy for everyone whether you want to save a location or not.

Instead, if you change your ride height, you now HAVE to immediately tap the screen within a couple of seconds to tell it to NOT store the location. It's a very small little "x" on the end that you have to hit just right. If it's not temporary and you want/need to "keep" that ride ride and tap that option, you then have to tap the little "x" one more time within seconds of telling it to keep the height.

It's terrible because it demands your attention multiple times while you're driving. It creates dangerous situations that otherwise wouldn't exist if they simply reverted the default of this "feature" back to the way they had it for years based on user feedback. If you live someplace like Colorado where it snows for half of the year and you have to modulate your ride height, it's important to not have to keep interacting with the screen repeatedly while driving with several required presses that have a narrow window of only a few seconds.

Please Tesla, return this to previous behavior as this implementation is annoying at best and downright dangerous at worst.
 
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