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Here's a brand new crazy idea: have a local caching server at the Tesla dealership and pump out OTA updates just there? I mean FFS, downloads through a local s
by hatsunearu 9y ago
Here's a brand new crazy idea: have a local caching server at the Tesla dealership and pump out OTA updates just there?
I mean FFS, downloads through a local server over WiFi is gonna be way faster than downloading through the internet over WiFi anyways!
And the servers are cheap, not to mention they probably already have spare computing power at a dealership to get this working!
- marcc 9y agoThe showrooms I know of LA aren’t close enough to where you can park to enable this. They are built in more walkable areas such as outdoor malls.
- endymi0n 9y agoHere‘s a better idea: install this „server“ (you‘ll probably not need much more than a Raspberry Pi sized machine) into every Supercharger. Car will have to park there anyway for some significant time, there‘s electricity already and it‘s Tesla property anyway so they don‘t come across as being cheap. Elon, are you listening? :D
- endymi0n 9y agoAnd thinking twice about it, you won‘t even need Internet at the Supercharger, either. With some clever cryptography and signing, you can use the existing Tesla fleet with the newest updates loaded as a P2P network on wheels... „Want to get the newest maps? Sure, just take a long-distance trip any time soon...“
- riteshpatel 9y agoI like how you think :)
- jxramos 9y agoIndeed, like a useful virus spreading about the Tesla fleet. Nice emanations.
- skgoa 9y agoSurely you would want internet at a charging location just so you can monitor it remotely.
- iknowstuff 9y agoSuperchargers are connected, but probably don't have the hardware to act as a WiFi hotspot. Teslas, on the other hand, do have WiFi, so if they acted as Tesla-only hotspots when idly charging, I guess they could redistribute their stored firmware updates to other charging peers.
- Animats 9y agoThey don't have WiFi at their charging stations?
- tener 9y agoNow, how about making the cars into delivery servers for other nearby cars?
- andruby 9y agoI wouldn't like the potential additional security implications of this. Cryptographic signing should cover _most_ attack surfaces, but not all.
- javadocmd 9y agoJust buy every US electrical substation and deliver the maps data via grid-wide powerline ethernet.
- morsch 9y agoAt that point you might as well buy everything and remodel it until you can stick with the old map.
- RoryH 9y agoCan here to suggest this ;-)
- rospaya 9y agoIf you think about it, even that's expensive. You need a computer, server, software, installation, times 1200 Supercharger stations (dealerships aren't available in a lot of places). Tesla has only 200k cars on the road. 5 gigabytes of data download off peak is pennies.
- freerobby 9y agoThey already do this! (Well, they install via a tethered laptop, but same idea). Any Service Center appointment gets you the latest firmware.