The first Tesla Model S and Model X equipped with Hardware 4 (HW4) are well out of production lines, and are starting to be delivered to owners. Small problem though, these over $100,000 vehicles lack essential features.
Tesla’s Hardware 4 (HW4) has not finished talking about him. If the revolution due to additional cameras is not yet a reality, since the cars produced at the moment do not yet benefit from them, the radar and the new driving computer are part of it. But it seems that Tesla has put the cart before the horse again, since the software part needed to make them work is late.
Louder than Tesla Vision: no Autopilot or cruise control
Since last September and the discontinuation of ultrasonic sensors, Tesla owners have been eagerly awaiting the return of park assists. Indeed, whether on the Model 3 or Model Y currently produced, five months have passed without anything changing on the software side: there is still no visible progress for customers as we had noted in the Model Y Propulsion test.
Today we learn via the delivery of a Tesla Model X Plaid in the United States that Tesla can do even more impressive. The car at some 110,000 dollars comes with many software functions that are not activated (unlike an MG4, sold around 20,000 euros, even if these software functions leave something to be desired on the Chinese compact) as specified by the owner :
At the moment, what I notice the most is anything that doesn’t work. Here are the features I’ve noticed so far that are missing:
- Visualization of cars
- Cruise control, Autopilot, Autopilot navigation
- The possibility of participating in the FSD beta
- parking sensors
- Automatic parking
- The car exit
Of course, all this will undoubtedly be activated once the software update is available, but it is clear that Tesla is even stronger than with the abandonment of ultrasonic sensors.
Without cruise control or Autopilot, this Tesla Model X is far from the promises of autonomous driving so much put forward by the firm of Elon Musk. According to information shared during the month of February, the developers’ deadline for the production of the software dedicated to hardware 4 was March 1.
Tesla Investor Day has passed, and a short week later, it seems that the software is still not ready. Maybe Tesla wants to take the opportunity to standardize some bricks before the update, who could finally allow Tesla Vision and the hundreds of thousands of Teslas delivered since last summer to find the famous Park Assit?
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