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The only edge Tesla has is the software stack. All the rest is meh. But it is kind of amazing that traditional carmakers are still struggling to catch up on the software front. To be honest, the whole auto industry is heading in a very bad direction, where they think of the car as a way to harvest data of their customers and to introduce their SaaS offerings
We’ve got an Tesla and an Volkswagen ID3. Tesla’s charging planning is pretty good. Volkswagen’s driving assistants are vastly superior to Tesla’s (despite not being oversold as “autonomous driving”).
IIRC, the first robotaxis are operated by companies owned by Google and General Motors, and the only car that has a licence for fully autonomous driving in Germany (up to 60 km/h, only on Autobahn) is a Mercedes.
No, Tesla’s autonomous driving is not cutting edge.
Huh, how does that go together? Aren’t you supposed to go at least 80 or something on an autobahn?
Minimum speed for vehicles to be allowed on the autobahn is 60. This is an autonomous traffic jam assistant – you can sleep during traffic jams now.
AFAIK it’s intended for stop and go traffic jam situations, also Autobahn is at least 60km/h.
Your vehicle needs to be capable of 60km/h to legally drive on the Autobahn, if you don’t want everyone to hate you 80km/h as that’s the speed limit for trucks.
The Mercedes thing is a traffic jam assistant, if you don’t take over when traffic speeds up again it’s going to pull over or something.
I am talking about the infotainment system, and the OTA update functionality.
The infotainment is utter garbage for a proper car(!) infotainment and OTA updates are available for basically all major car brands these days.
Does not compute
You mean 160?
No, 60. seriously.
Unlike all other driving assistants you are allowed to let the car dive unsupervised on it’s own. Since 60 km/h is sort of the minimum speed for the German autobahn, this is an autonomous traffic jam assistant – you can sleep, watch tv or do whatever you like during traffic jams < 60 km/h.
Honestly I’m pretty happy with the software stack in my Volvo. But then again it’s basically stock Android.
That and the supercharger network, right?
Only in North America. Europe has quite a few competing charging networks, and cars can work on all of them because of EU standardisation. The superchargers are typically more expensive compared to the others.
No, they are one of the cheapest and easiest to use.