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My vehicle has a couple "dummy" things on the inside as well. Places for plugs and switches and things that are only on other models. Maybe it's something like
by blakesterz 4y ago
My vehicle has a couple "dummy" things on the inside as well. Places for plugs and switches and things that are only on other models. Maybe it's something like that? It'll be an upgrade option or on a different model? It's probably much cheaper to make the housing thing to be used in a wider range of models.
- dmonitor 4y ago“tesla reuses old plastic molds for new car models” is a much less interesting title, though.
- daveguy 4y agoExcept it's not just the mold. They put a fake realistic camera in where the placeholder is. If it was to "fill space in a generic mold" they could have used a plastic cover. Instead they chose a realistic looking mock camera. I wonder why.
- tomatotomato37 4y agoIf they also manufacture the enclosure for the camera electronics in-house then it may still be cheaper to produce more of them than it would be to spin up separate manufacturing for a filler piece
- practice9 4y ago> instead they chose a realistic looking mock camera. I wonder why. For it to look better? Not everything has to be a generic plastic cover.
- strifey 4y agoThose are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them. What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunctional yet functional-looking piece.
- xeromal 4y agoCars do that pretty often. EVs for instance often have fake grilles for no reason.
- electric_mayhem 4y agoMy guess would be so that eagle-eyed ocd tesla owners don’t freak out over seeming to have fewer cameras in their car than their buddy’s previous model year version. I’m certain there’s be posts complaining about being short a camera without any understanding of hw4 being better despite having a smaller quantity of cameras.
- xeromal 4y agoI bet this is at least part of the reason if not all.
- Alupis 4y agoIt's still incredibly bizarre to go through the effort of manufacturing a real-looking fake camera instead of using an industry-standard feature-delete panel like the entire rest of the automotive industry. The fake camera feels like it's trying to mislead people.
- xeromal 4y agoIt could be but misleading has a few levels. One is misleading that it has a feature that it doesn't (like 100 HP vs 500 HP) and the other is putting something there that a person expects even though it's no longer necessary (like the close door button in an eleveator)
- Alupis 4y agoI think it's clearly misleading in-that it is pretending to have an expensive camera but does not. No brand-new first-time Tesla owner is going to freak out because there's a feature-delete panel somewhere in the vehicle. There's probably others already after-all, they are very standard in most vehicles. So... who is this for? If it looked so terrible to remove one camera, then redesign that component to look good again. After all, it's not like they're going back to the old design. This would be more akin to your brand new laptop having a fake ethernet port... why?
- moffkalast 4y agoWhen a car costs nearly $100k it better come with all the fucking upgrade options installed.
- IncRnd 4y agoAlas. That is never the case.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoIt’s also a safe space for aftermarket accessories, say you add a bigger alternator and inverter and it gives you a spot for a switch. Or you add fog lights. Or some NOS.