One of the best parts of Tesla ownership over the past 5 years has been the constant flow of software updates that add features, enhance existing functionality and resolve bugs.
Since I started tracking updates on my car in May 2022, I’ve had 82 updates and over the 763 days the average time spent on a software version is 14.13 days.
As it stands today, my car, and many other Australia Teslas, have been on software update version 2024.44.25.4 for 42 days, almost 3x the average duration between updates.
Tesla is clearly very excited about progressing FSD (Supervised) to FSD (Unsupervised) and this seems to be where their attention firmly is. While it’s understandable, given the massive societal and economic potential of autonomous vehicles, that doesn’t make Australians feel any better about the bugs that remain in our software.
For years now, the car will indicate left on a freeway on-ramp as the car merges right, which definitely feels like a symptom of a LHD model.
Navigate on Autopilot is amazing when it works, but often makes unnecessary lane changes leaving many to disable the feature.
Today, basic Autopilot does a great job of keeping you centered in the lane lines and adapting to the speed of cars ahead, it’s easily one of the ADAS systems on the market.
Unfortunately those who’ve invested in software upgrades like EAP (A$5k) and FSD (A$10k), we still don’t have Actually Smart Summon, we still need to confirm on green every time we proceed through traffic lights.
Of course Australians are still waiting for FSD (Supervised) which would allow our cars to navigate city streets, automatically indicating along set routes, including support for roundabouts and on roads that don’t have lane markings.
So while Tesla may be focused on the ultimate goal of FSD Unsupervised and a robotaxi future, I encourage them not to forget about people on the other side of the planet that bought into the Tesla ecosystem and the mission.
@teslascope recently updated their service to provide a region filter on software updates allowing us to see the slow trickle of updates flowing to the Australian fleet. What used to be a flood, has now slowed to a very slow drip.
