By Lennon Cihak
Tesla has now started rolling out update 2022.36.1 (release notes). With this update, Tesla’s mobile application now shows users additional information about the media being played in the vehicle, such as song title, artist and destination information.
The automaker has made a number of improvements to their mobile app in recent months, including the ability to order a vehicle directly in the app. Earlier last month, an app update suggested Tesla would add a powered frunk to their vehicles.
This has not been confirmed by CEO Elon Musk or Tesla. Many owners have taken it upon themselves to add aftermarket parts to motorize the front trunk.
Number details
With Tesla’s latest update to their mobile app, owners can now see the song title, artist name, volume levels, pause/play, and forward and backward.
The song details appear directly above the pause/play buttons that were previously displayed.
Destination
In addition, if the driver uses GPS to navigate to a specific location, the mobile app displays details about their destination.
This information is displayed in the “Location” section of the app. When the GPS is in use, the location section is renamed Navigation and the driver’s destination, distance and ETA are displayed directly on the main screen of the app.
When you tap on the navigation area, you’ll be greeted by a map showing the vehicle’s location and nearby Superchargers, as before, but you’ll also see the vehicle’s destination details.
In addition to displaying the vehicle’s set destination and ETA, the app also displays the expected charge status of the vehicle upon arrival.
This information is useful as it provides owners with additional transparency about the battery consumption of their vehicles and how they are being used. Tesla is also rolling out updates that include major revisions to their in-vehicle energy application.
These improvements include battery charge status on departure and arrival and the main causes of battery drain.
For example, if it is very hot outside and your air conditioning is set to a low temperature and the fans are blowing at 10, the vehicle will indicate how much power your air conditioning is using. The Energy application also shows driving, battery conditioning, altitude and “everything else” such as charging a mobile device, on-board computers, lights, audio system and more.
As we continue to see major updates to Full Self-Driving Beta, we will definitely see more improvements to the mobile app as they continue to add useful new features to the vehicle.
These new features require Tesla app version 4.13 or later and Tesla’s 2022.36 update.
By Kevin Armstrong
Cybertruck deliveries will start next year, but if you can’t wait that long, you might want to head to Night City. Cyberpunk 2077 has teased that the long-awaited vehicle may appear in the real world in the popular video game. But if that weren’t enough, Elon Musk announced another exciting and unique feature for the futuristic-looking truck: it will be waterproof.
Let’s start with the driving Cybertruck, which shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone following the Tesla CEO. He bought the Lotus Esprit that James Bond used to jump off a pier and transform into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me. He bought the movie prop in 2013 for just under $1 million and told USA Today, “I was disappointed to learn that it can’t really transform. What I’m going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try it really transforms.” .”
In 2016 he has tweeted that the Model S “floats well enough to be a boat,” but he didn’t recommend trying. Now he has claimed that the Cybertruck can be used as a boat for a short time. Musk tweeted: Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, allowing it to cross rivers, lakes, and even seas that aren’t too choppy.
In a later tweet, he gave an idea of the distance he has in mind: Needs to get from Starbase to South Padre Island, for which the channel must be crossed.
Twitter user @Erdayastronaut shed some light on why Musk would pick that area and that distance. The tweet reads: “One of SpaceX’s biggest problems is attracting talent for work at Starbase, which is extremely remote. South Padre is a great place to live, but it’s almost an hour’s drive to Starbase, despite being only 8 miles from Starbase because of the shipping channel.” A quick Google Maps check shows what the user is describing.
Musk’s tweet also caught the attention of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Officials seem a little concerned about the wording. The official account tweeted: Our abandoned ship’s crews beg you to understand that anything that “serves as a boat momentarily” should not be used as a boat.
CD Projekt RED also noted Musk’s tweet and the Cyberpunk creators took the opportunity to showcase two concepts of the Cybertruck as it would appear in Night City. Musk and Cyberpunk been in a steady relationship for a few years. Most recently, he demonstrated the power of the onboard computer game system by playing Cyberpunk in a Tesla. However, CD Projekt RED did not mention whether the Cybertruck would float in Cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk 2077 will be playable in the new Model S
By Kevin Armstrong
Tesla’s team of Autopilot engineers validates major improvements to Full Self Driving Beta, including parking improvements. While Smart Summon and Reverse Summon were not specifically mentioned at the 3.5-hour AI Day 2022 event, parking lots were discussed and Elon Musk gave a timeline of when improvements are expected.
Reverse Summon or ‘Park Seek’ as Tesla seems to call it, is the opposite of Smart Summon. While Smart Summon is driving towards you from a parking lot, users who activate Reverse Summon would have their Tesla dropped off at a location, perhaps closest to a shopping center entrance, and then find a parking spot. This feature is described by Musk on July 1, 2020when he gave it a timeline of two to four months.
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s director of the Autopilot program, kicked off the FSD portion of AI Day, saying, “FSD beta software is very capable of driving the car. It must be able to navigate from parking lot to parking lot, drive through the city, stop at traffic lights and stop signs, negotiate with objects at intersections, make turns and so on.
Several team members described how FSD has progressed and will soon be an integrated stack, meaning that one code base contains everything the program needs to navigate the car in a parking lot or on a busy highway. Musk is currently using this new stack, “it works pretty well for me, but we need to validate it in all weather conditions like heavy rain, snow, dust and make sure it works better than the production stack across a wide range of environments.”
Paril Jain, the manager of Autopilot Motion Planning, commented on what else will be included in the integrated stack, “We also expect the parking lot stack as part of the FSD stack before the end of this year. So that brings us in. basically with you sitting in the car in the parking lot and driving to the end of the parking lot, in a parking lot, before the end of this year.”
It was previously reported that Reverse Summon would have three different modes to find parking spots that the owner prefers. The methods include closest to the entrance, near a cart return, and the end of the parking lot for those wanting to avoid tight spots that cause door dents. Musk said the integrated stack is on track for release before the end of the year and perhaps as early as November.
Tesla has also updated its website to reflect this news, although no timetable has been provided. The Autopilot section of the Tesla site now has a section titled “Get to Your Destination.” The description reads: “When you arrive at your destination, just get out at the entrance and your car will go into parking search mode, automatically search for a spot and park itself. A tap on your phone calls it back to you.”
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