#over-the-air-updates

#over-the-air-updates

Car tech is frustrating right now. Chances are if you hop in a new vehicle, you're going to be greeted by a confounding array of touch screens, capacitive buttons and submenus. Some of it is amazing, and some of it is confusing. It is easynatural, evento opt out. To skip all the nonsense, plug in your phone, and channel everything through Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. But if car companies actually want to give buyers a good experience, I'm more

For most of its short life, my Tesla Model 3 has aged beautifully. Since I bought the car, in 2019, it has received a number of new features simply by updating its software. My navigation system no longer just directs me to EV chargers along my route-it also shows me, in real time, how many plugs are free. With the push of a button, I can activate "Car Wash Mode," and the Tesla will put itself in neutral and disable the windshield wipers.

As noted in a report from Nikkei, Tesla's artificial intelligence-powered vehicles are allowed to be retrofitted with a software update that could enable the activation of their self-driving features. These features would be rolled out through an over-the-air (OTA) software update for vehicles that have already been sold to consumers. Previous reports have indicated that Tesla Japan has started the testing of FSD technology on public roads.

Its EVs tend to be class-leading in terms of electric range, fast-charging times, performance and more. But its in-car software experience has aged about as well as skinny jeans. The smartphone apps are slow and buggy. The infotainment system works just fine, but it's not fancy, and true over-the-air updates are few and far between. And none of it can be terribly personalized.

From the very beginning, we wanted to design the systems to be able to be continuously improved, updated over the air. It's a pattern that's happened in EVs and gotten a lot of traction, but no one had really done that before in HVAC,