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izacusyesterday at 11:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

Err, Teslas aren't an outlier - the OTAs break shit all the time and in many ways they're worse than cars not getting OTAs because of that :(


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maxdoyesterday at 11:20 PM

I can name you tons of things they fix over 5 years i own over the air. The ratio there is very very net positive towards a very good , well polished system, not an other way around.

They even fixed once a semi broken hardware for me. Camera power started acting up. I called tesla they said you can come to service to replace or wait a bit we will release OTA that will decrease a power consumption, in 3-4 weeks they fix my custom problem without going to serive

Telaneoyesterday at 11:10 PM

Yet they still manage to be better than the baseline, since that's located somewhere around the Mariana Trench.

plqbfbvyesterday at 11:22 PM

> the OTAs break shit all the time

Uh? I can literally count the times my Model 3 2019 software broke something on one hand:

- when they redesigned the AC controls to make them more visually appealing but less functional (no button borders and no fill)

- when they decided to put air recirculation under auto-control and ignore the user's settings

- when they optimized the cellular connectivity and it took them a while to get back proper reconnect on loss of signal (garages etc)

- when they tuned sentry's sensitivity and there was some back-and-forth for a couple cycles between "record everything" and "record nothing"

None of this made the car undrivable or totally useless. I did hear of reports of early HW4 cars bricking their FSD computer, and Tesla replaced it.

In my opinion it's still a much better experience than the absolute guesswork of "what will my screen display today when I connect the phone? and where will I find Maps again?", based on software updates on the car AND the phone.

EDIT: also agreeing with the sibling comments: my 7 year old car got a lot of extra features since release, and most of them working very well at the first try.