Friday, December 23, 2022

 Will likely attempt to travel this afternoon in severe winter weather (high winds & cold temperatures) to visit Katie and Matt in Chicago via car -- Tesla Model Y along I-80/90 route.  The navigation software built-in to the vehicle does not cross analyze optimal safe routes along with Tesla Supercharger stations at reasonable intervals to allow for reduced battery performance adjusted for outside temperatures (as well as maximizing long term battery performance).  Additionally, twice now the vehicles navigation system directed us to wrong locations (both in Indiana and in Michigan) as we were trying to navigate to specific Tesla Supercharger destinations.  So I therefore use a non-Tesla app to identify exact locations and cross correlate that location with the location built in to the navigation system.  In summary, navigating on a long trip requiring multiple stops to recharge is problematic and certainly far from user friendly.  Also, given all the recording capability of each Tesla vehicle and given all of the connectiveness "internet of things" IoT it is remarkably odd that Tesla does not create a living, dynamic analysis of changing road conditions, delays, weather, traffic etc etc and upload all of this information in a cloud based collective, enabling each individual vehicle to learn from one another the exactness of localized situations such that then each individual vehicle optimizes a route and advices the driver of alternative solutions on-the-fly.  In other words, as we travel this afternoon if I had information from another set of vehicles that traveled say 10, 20 or 30 minutes ahead of me along the same route, updating me in real time of specific road conditions, traffic, weather, effects on battery performance that could be anticipated ... it would be helpful to have real-time analytics.  Updates to follow... stay tuned. 

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