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model 3 has voice control "turn on wipers" "set AC to 68" "drive home" - at the press of a button, the music fades and it listens like "hey Siri"
by redindian75 4y ago
model 3 has voice control "turn on wipers" "set AC to 68" "drive home" - at the press of a button, the music fades and it listens like "hey Siri"
- Slava_Propanei 4y ago[dead]
- biofox 4y agoThat sounds like a poor solution to a problem of their own making
- colordrops 4y agoAs an owner it works great. Windshield wipers have a sensor for automatic control, and if you want to manually adjust, voice recognition is highly accurate these days. I switch between my Prius and Tesla all the time as my wife shares the vehicles, and I much prefer the Tesla controls. But I'll get off of your lawn if you'd like.
- wlesieutre 4y agoAnecdotally the owner I’ve asked about it said it sucks. And he’s a native English speaker. How’s it do with accents? Maybe it’s been improved with hardware upgrades? His is around a 2017 I think.
- judge2020 4y agoAn update came out around November of last year that vastly improved auto high-beams, and somewhat improved automatic windshield wiper performance.
- wlesieutre 4y agoI mean the voice control features specifically. Didn’t hear anything about the auto high beams and wipers which could imply they worked better than the voice recognition.
- colordrops 4y agoI'm a native speaker, maybe I have good enunciation. I'm amazed at how accurate the voice recognition is. It almost never makes a mistake, even with obscure location names. It displays on the screen what it thinks you said and even updates it as more heavy duty ML requests come back with better results.
- orthoxerox 4y agoI imagine it works as well as the famous voice-activated elevator in Scotland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
- cyberax 4y agoI'm usually listening to audiobooks. Right now Tesla doesn't support any audiobook reader, so voice commands momentarily mute the book without pausing. Next issue is the quality of voice recognition. It just sucks. Oh, and wipers are a pure fucking BS in Teslas. They removed a $5 infrared precipitation sensor, and it STILL doesn't work well.
- davchana 4y agoI don't own Tesla, I have a strong Punjabi Accent when i speak English. Many bigger companies phone trees based on voice "commands" are useless for me. It never understands me. My Ford Sync voice controls too struggle to understand me. I prefer buttons.
- selimthegrim 4y agoLike Zail Singh with Reagan, you will just have to teach it Punjabi :)
- piyh 4y agoAt least it's hands free unlike the pile of shit that is Subaru Outback's infotainment. Takes upwards of 20 seconds to change any settings after the car turns on because it lags so bad.
- Loughla 4y agoJesus Fuck is the Subaru infotainment system just an absolute nightmare. I love Subaru cars. I have owned several. My most recent (23 Impreza) was the first with full-blownsies infotainment. It is just an absolute shitshow. Slow, laggy, buggy, hard to understand menus. It randomly turns black and takes a minute or two to turn back on when starting driving. If you get in turn the car on, and put it into a gear without waiting for 20-30 seconds, the screen and therefore radio will be completely unusable for anywhere from 30 seconds up to five minutes afterwards. It is just awful. Awful.
- dybber 4y agoIt will probably make production costs cheaper in the long run to avoid as many buttons as possible, unless legislation forbids it due to safety concerns. I’m on team Hyundai in this case, but if you want to produce the cheapest possible car, you will have to reduce the amount of components that needs to be installed.
- cdepman 4y agoIt was doing its best on automatic but the wipers were sporadic at best. This was a major winter storm and visibility was awful …the model 3 had no idea where the lane lines were and apparently no idea how bad the precipitation was.
- zxexz 4y agoI think I’m just going to keep buying and driving 15 year old cars until the new cars are an order of magnitude better. I can buy 10 half decent 15 year old cars for the price of new Tesla! (15 years old is the magic number in MA where the car no longer has to pass emissions checks during inspection)
- smaudet 4y agoPlus, you can probably fix them yourself! None of this "hack it yourself and void the warranty, or pay a goon to hookup a computer to your car to 'fix' it." I wonder how long it will take for people to start selling jailbroken cars...
- gbin 4y agoTo me, this is definitely a major safety hazard to rely on voice command. If you just get splashed and in a stressed out voice you ask for wipers and your car might not understand you.
- lukas099 4y agoAbsolutely. Not to mention the needless inaccessibility.
- millzlane 4y agoIt would def draw a pause if I were driving a Turo rental. It's great to have the option of voice. But I can actuate the wipers much quicker with a hand stalk than I can speak it.
- judge2020 4y agoThe way to do it is to press the wiper button (press in on the stalk button) to swipe one and then it gives you options for manual wiper speed selection via an on-screen control.
- Stratoscope 4y agoSo I use a touchscreen to adjust the wiper speed and delay? In the worst kind of weather where I really need it? Sign me up! This is a huge improvement over my 2008 Kia where I twist the stalk and don't have to look at it and I can keep my eyes on the road. OTOH, my old Kia doesn't have Full Self Driving. Ah well.
- nixass 4y ago> my old Kia doesn't have Full Self Driving Don't worry, neither does Tesla :)
- serpix 4y agoin every other car on the planet it is the right stalk down. They had to go and reinvent this.
- lukas099 4y ago> the music fades Disgusting.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoLove when the music fades for like 5 seconds to play a 250ms chime.
- marlor 4y agoI can’t even get Siri to reliably play a song or skip a track, let alone anything useful. Must be my accent. I’d hate to try to operate vehicle controls with the same hit-and-miss interface. Give me tactile controls any time.
- dymk 4y agoThe voice control is shit
- gambiting 4y agoCool, and if you have a strong accent then what?