Haven't ranted about Tesla in a while, and I figure I'm overdue!
I think I'm just going to remove my car from the FSD queue at this point. I'm at a 92-94 score, which is fine, but I have no idea how long it'll take to reach me... especially when last I heard, they were doling it out to 98's. Honestly... I'm just tired of feeling judged by Tesla. It frustrates me whenever I get dinged for a Forward Collision Warning when I'm in no danger of hitting the car in front of me. In most of those instances, I'm already slowing down, but it's just not fast enough for the car's Medium setting, which is what the Safety Score uses. (Of course, if you slow down too fast, you'll get dinged for hard braking!)
In regard to the latest UI update... it's what I expect from Tesla. I think it all comes back to one pervasive thought that I can't get out of my head in regard to the company... do any of their engineers/designers even drive the car? I can't imagine anyone from a UX team would be okay with how their system is becoming more user-
unfriendly. One issue that I ran into was when I tried to dial into a meeting, and I was so confused as to where the call dialog was. Turns out that the garage door panel will hide the call dialog box. Also, when you hit the numpad button, the call buttons move up rather than staying in the same place at the bottom. As someone that works in software, it's just poor design all around.
2. The ugliest modern vehicle she's ever seen on the road, bar none.
I'm a bit mixed on it overall. I think the Model 3/Y really only looks bad when you look at it from a specific angle at the back. Albeit, this is all subjective and some may love the rear look of the car(s), where I think the front looks fine and they don't.
3. The frunk needed to be deeper for her needs, but it's still useful
I tend to use the frunk mostly for groceries, and it works well for that. Just be careful that nothing will hit the Open button while moving, or it will release the frunk. (Without mods, that just pops it up a tiny bit like a normal hood would.) I only ever had this issue happen once for me, and I think it was because a 2L soda bottle was positioned parallel with the car and the bottom was pushing the button.
4. TOUCHING THE SCREEN FOR EVERYTHING. It was a misty day and the "automatic" wipers couldn't adjust for crap. Having to learn the vehicle, drive, and keep looking over to the screen to adjust the wipers every 30 seconds is an absolutely stupid design.
I'll admit that I will never be a fan of this, and I'm certain that plenty of people on this sub-forum can recount how often I complain about it. Frankly, I'd be fine as long as I could adjust the headlights and wipers from a physical control. My issue with the headlights are that it's illegal for me to drive with the wipers on any highway or interstate and not have my lights on. The majority of the time, the car turns the lights on when the wipers are on, but sometimes... it doesn't. There are times where I've driven most of the way to work and realized that my lights were never on even though it was overcast and rainy.
Overall, my biggest problem -- and I saw someone reiterate this point in a recent article on Tesla -- is that Tesla thinks they know how I want to drive, and it really rubs me the wrong way. It's so asinine when you consider that Tesla's entire concept is a car that drives for you, but how in the world will automatic driving ever work in the rain when the rain occludes the cameras every time!? Heck, I get error messages on my car just from sunlight hitting the B-pillar sensors, which ends up blinding them.
6. Left out of the original post, I forgot. The sensors were absolutely crazy in town. Construction cones jumping everywhere, vehicles sliding around on the screen when we were stationary. She expected a perfect view of objects on the screen in digital form, but there was way too much moving around to trust that an object was where it said it was in gridlocked traffic. It could only estimate our rural 2 lane roads with no paint. The automatic cruise control worked fine enough, but it does in her current vehicle as well.
Similar to what I said above about how Tesla thinks they know how you want to drive, they don't let you turn traffic assist off on the cruise control. That can be even more frustrating due to traffic assist still having issues with phantom drops and slowdowns. I've been snapped forward in my seat from the car suddenly dropping out of cruise control on a highway with absolutely no cars in front of me.