Tesla Model S - the best in-car tech ever? - Mat Watson
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Date: 2022-04-11
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Comments and reviews: 10
Andrew
Tried using it in a demo car - it crashed. When it was working it was sluggish and filled with annoying, childish gimmicks. It certainly isn't enough to make up for the lack lustre cabin and sub standard build quality.
My mates Model S has been back to the garage twice with bugs in the screen and once with a dangerous steering fault. People blame this on Tesla being a young company but it's not, it's been around much longer than people think.
It boils down to poor engineering and even worse QA at the factory. Coupled with the ludicrous price this really is a car for brand snobs more than anything else.
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Tried using it in a demo car - it crashed. When it was working it was sluggish and filled with annoying, childish gimmicks. It certainly isn't enough to make up for the lack lustre cabin and sub standard build quality.
My mates Model S has been back to the garage twice with bugs in the screen and once with a dangerous steering fault. People blame this on Tesla being a young company but it's not, it's been around much longer than people think.
It boils down to poor engineering and even worse QA at the factory. Coupled with the ludicrous price this really is a car for brand snobs more than anything else.
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Jon
Rubbish. it's all superficial. You can Bluetooth stream but not control what's played and if course changing what's played by touching your phone is illegal, the map looks great with traffic but none of that is used in the Nav, it uses a bodged garmin map and as it's a well known issue amongst owners that routing is awful and if you have poor mobile signal there is no map backup and the screen is dead. No meaningful buffering on Spotify and you can't create playlists. And if you want to turn your lights on manually or turn on fog lights. at least three taps on that screen.
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Rubbish. it's all superficial. You can Bluetooth stream but not control what's played and if course changing what's played by touching your phone is illegal, the map looks great with traffic but none of that is used in the Nav, it uses a bodged garmin map and as it's a well known issue amongst owners that routing is awful and if you have poor mobile signal there is no map backup and the screen is dead. No meaningful buffering on Spotify and you can't create playlists. And if you want to turn your lights on manually or turn on fog lights. at least three taps on that screen.
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SDav21
It looks so silly that screen though. It would've been better if it was shaped with the dash design or something. With that interior, it is hard to justify the cost of this car. Plus, it is missing tech as well. Where is the night vision, surround view cameras for parking (I see only a reverse camera shows when parking, dynamic seats, intelligent lights. I feel like there is more for Tesla to do still. They are lucky people are easily distracted by software features on a large screen.
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It looks so silly that screen though. It would've been better if it was shaped with the dash design or something. With that interior, it is hard to justify the cost of this car. Plus, it is missing tech as well. Where is the night vision, surround view cameras for parking (I see only a reverse camera shows when parking, dynamic seats, intelligent lights. I feel like there is more for Tesla to do still. They are lucky people are easily distracted by software features on a large screen.
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TheBestThings
We got a 2016 Model S a few months ago and the screen is not laggy, but it's not as fast as our iPad Pro. Elon mentioned that we're nearing the limits for this hardware. The maps are all download live so the refresh speed depends on the strength of your LTE connection. The only slow app I found is the browser, which is almost unusable. Tesla is suppose to be releasing v8. 1 soon which updates the Linux kernel to version 4. 4 and suppose to update the WebKit based browser.
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We got a 2016 Model S a few months ago and the screen is not laggy, but it's not as fast as our iPad Pro. Elon mentioned that we're nearing the limits for this hardware. The maps are all download live so the refresh speed depends on the strength of your LTE connection. The only slow app I found is the browser, which is almost unusable. Tesla is suppose to be releasing v8. 1 soon which updates the Linux kernel to version 4. 4 and suppose to update the WebKit based browser.
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George-.
One thing i dont see any motoring journalist comment on, is the performance of these tablet screens in the long term. Its good to have some gadgets in your car, no doubt about that, BUT they work like tablets and as years go by they will start to become sluggish, lag all the time and will be annoying to use. I dont think many people take that into considerstion when buying new cars nowadays, but they should imo. Not to mention the cost of all that kit.
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One thing i dont see any motoring journalist comment on, is the performance of these tablet screens in the long term. Its good to have some gadgets in your car, no doubt about that, BUT they work like tablets and as years go by they will start to become sluggish, lag all the time and will be annoying to use. I dont think many people take that into considerstion when buying new cars nowadays, but they should imo. Not to mention the cost of all that kit.
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autos
Carwow should encourage their UX designers to review these infotainment systems, or standard consumers. Because this is basically just a teardown of features with no regard as to how usable it is on the move.
Touch screen = fine for sat nav / music. Not fine for heating controls. This is by no means worst case scenario but people are too easily pleased without being inquisitive about a car's infotainment.
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Carwow should encourage their UX designers to review these infotainment systems, or standard consumers. Because this is basically just a teardown of features with no regard as to how usable it is on the move.
Touch screen = fine for sat nav / music. Not fine for heating controls. This is by no means worst case scenario but people are too easily pleased without being inquisitive about a car's infotainment.
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Markus
worst infotainment on the market, impossible to use while driving, handels like an ipad 1g, what a slow cpu is built in? such a slow cpu in such an expensive cars, and in addition no voice control! mercedes offers voice control since 2002, bmw offers a system today where you can talk to the car, and it does almost anything, tesla has a great design and nice 0-100. the rest is mediocre at most.
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worst infotainment on the market, impossible to use while driving, handels like an ipad 1g, what a slow cpu is built in? such a slow cpu in such an expensive cars, and in addition no voice control! mercedes offers voice control since 2002, bmw offers a system today where you can talk to the car, and it does almost anything, tesla has a great design and nice 0-100. the rest is mediocre at most.
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Minus
If the motors combined are outputting 480 thousand watts, and the battery is putting out 530 thousand watts, what is going on? Is fifty thousands watts worth of energy and heat being lost in the connection from the battery to the motors? Thats a crazy amount of heat, and 10% electrical losses seems insane.
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If the motors combined are outputting 480 thousand watts, and the battery is putting out 530 thousand watts, what is going on? Is fifty thousands watts worth of energy and heat being lost in the connection from the battery to the motors? Thats a crazy amount of heat, and 10% electrical losses seems insane.
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Tech
To the people who say that the the screen is sluggish, where do you get that from cause I don-t see anything sluggish here. The only thing that can be a little bit slow is the browser (even if I don-t think many people would use it anyways, but that's besides the point)
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To the people who say that the the screen is sluggish, where do you get that from cause I don-t see anything sluggish here. The only thing that can be a little bit slow is the browser (even if I don-t think many people would use it anyways, but that's besides the point)
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Aaddiction
I don't know what is showing, but I do know it's far from affordable. The UI is starting to look dated.
For this money - S Class, 7 series, A8, no question about it. Also, the in-car tech in the 7 series is far more advanced than this iOS 5 iPad.
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I don't know what is showing, but I do know it's far from affordable. The UI is starting to look dated.
For this money - S Class, 7 series, A8, no question about it. Also, the in-car tech in the 7 series is far more advanced than this iOS 5 iPad.
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