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After writing “13 Potential Tesla Demand Components (Good & Dangerous) In Coming Years,” I used to be nonetheless brainstorming demand drivers and fascinated with what makes Tesla autos particular. After which I remembered one thing Elon Musk tweeted years in the past. Not lengthy after I purchased my Tesla Mannequin 3 in 2019, we received a giant software program improve that added YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, and a number of other cool video video games to the Tesla touchscreen. It was thrilling, enjoyable, and made Tesla possession one thing very particular. I feel it was at the moment that Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would push out vital updates to Tesla autos about as soon as a month. Today, I hardly ever get vital Tesla system updates, particularly if you happen to take away “Full Self Driving” updates (which most house owners don’t get) from the equation.

Really, going again additional, pre-2019, Tesla was once king of Easter eggs. Tesla had included tons of enjoyable, playful, typically even stunning Easter eggs in its automobiles. It appeared that it was usually one or two of those that basically hooked a brand new purchaser. They was once hidden extra, the place you needed to know or guess a sure key phrase and sort it in in to disclose the Easter egg. The Tesla rounded up the massive ones and put them into a transparent are of the touchscreen. Since then, plainly not so much have been added.

Whether or not we’re speaking effectivity and vary enhancements, nice new options, or just enjoyable and hilarious Easter eggs, Tesla software program updates have been restricted and disappointing for some time. We actually aren’t getting notable enhancements on a month-to-month foundation — not even shut.

Now, I haven’t spent numerous time fascinated with this, I’m just one particular person, and I’m simply going to spend a couple of minutes right here brainstorming some updates it will be good to have. So, Tesla ought to be capable of do so much higher if it cares and tries, nevertheless it appears the corporate doesn’t care and doesn’t attempt to add numerous enjoyable and helpful new options regularly prefer it used to. Listed below are some enhancements I’d like to get pleasure from:

1. Make it potential to forged one thing I’m watching on my cellphone onto the Tesla touchscreen.
2. Add ESPN+ to the Theater choices. (There’s already Disney+ and Hulu — how a lot tougher may or not it’s so as to add ESPN+, which is in the identical company household and comes as a part of a package deal with Disney+ and Hulu?)
3. Add a Mandalorian Easter egg during which the touchscreen turns right into a Razor Crest management panel and Grogu exhibits up within the entrance passenger seat on the display screen. Additionally throw in some random missions or “jobs” on supply from the Guild. (Ah, effectively, contemplating Elon Musk’s fights with Disney, maybe this wouldn’t be a authorized choice for Tesla.)
4. Give Tesla house owners the choice to arrange the touchscreen how they need just a little extra, or no less than revert to earlier variations that have been a lot better and simpler to make use of!
5. Present an choice to pull a part of a navigation path to a unique avenue of your selecting.
6. Present the choice of locking a navigation route in order that it doesn’t change on you whereas driving for no clear motive.
7. Add a warning (a yellow flash on the display screen or one thing, for instance) for if you find yourself coming into a faculty zone.
8. Make different Teslas on the highway appear like Teslas on the visitors visualization and present them of their paint colour.
9. Add Tennis Channel+, Peacock, and Paramount+ to the Theater choices.
10. Add apps like Google Suite apps, a climate app, Starbucks, Goal, WhatsApp, and many others.
11. Give house owners the choice to have computerized windshield wipers that work like a traditional automotive’s (i.e., that work effectively).

These are just some fast concepts that got here to thoughts this night for me. Any others?

I can’t recall the final time we received any updates within the vein of any of those above.