Tesla Firmware 8.0 is here and I’m going to do a short series of posts on my thoughts on the different areas of 8.0 update for the pre-Autopilot series of cars like I did for other updates in the past, but since I know that a number of owners are still waiting to get the 8.0 update I wanted to share the release notes and screenshots that cover all the changes on the pre-AP cars while they’re waiting.
The most significant improvements in 8.0 are in these areas:
- Autopilot (for cars with autopilot hardware enabled)
- Media player
- Navigation & trip planner
- Trips (Trip A, B etc)
- Cabin overheat protection
The screen shots below are from firmware 8.0 (2.36.108) on my April 2014 Tesla Model S 85:
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- New charge/battery image
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- Different seat heat icons
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- Overall & new media player
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- Favorite waypoints still not sorted
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- New turn instructions
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- Nearby chargers (but no amenities)
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- No title bar with map
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- Full screen map
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- Route/chargers overview first
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- First leg view
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- Full trip view
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- Media search
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- Searching for drive songs
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- Searching for drive albums
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- Searching for drive artists
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- Searching for drive podcasts
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- Searching for Tesla podcasts!
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- Searching for drive stations
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- New Radio interface
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- New streaming interface
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- New TuneIn interface
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- TuneIn playing
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- Phone interface still lacking
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- USB interface with poor parsing
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- USB categories
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- Minimized player
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- Zoomed player
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- New Trip management
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- Rename your trips (still only 2)
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- View with new names
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- You can have 3 shown
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- Or 4 (minimum is 2)
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- Trip planner still beta. Some new options
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- Cabin overheat has no help
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- Smart preconditioning still beta
So what do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Most of my music in on a USB in FLAC format. I really wish there was a USB search capability on either song name or artist. Looks like they took away the alpa search ribbon for USB. I wonder if the player will continue playing a paused USB song in the wee hours of the evening or did they fix that, I hope??
USB is slowly (very) improving over time but my impression is they’d just like to kill it if they could. It obviously doesn’t get a lot of testing or use by those developing it.
Navigation needs to suggest alternate routes. Almost all cars have it theses days and it’s not even required that TEsla Solve for it. Integrate WAZE into navigation would be great.
Agreed, shameful they still haven’t added that.