Hide this camera that I can’t see! Tesla has removed from its website all the images showing the famous camera located under the front bumper of the new Model 3. What is Elon Musk’s firm playing at?
Just a few days ago, the new generation Tesla Model 3 was announced, which is full of interesting new features. Moreover, a camera located under the front bumper had caught our attention, since Tesla did not mention it anywhere. Today, she disappeared from the site. What is the American manufacturer playing?
Move along, nothing to see
If an error can always happen when releasing a new product, we still find it hard to believe that the Texan firm has published visuals of a Tesla Model 3 with a camera in the front of the bumper without anyone noticing internally.
What’s more, Elon Musk’s silence following the announcement of the new version of his flagship electric vehicle makes us say that Tesla has not yet revealed all the secrets relating to the famous Model 3 Highland.
As you probably know, two new versions of the Tesla Model 3 have been available to order since last week. These are the Tesla Model 3 Propulsion and Tesla Model 3 Grande Autonomie. The Tesla Model 3 Performance, for its part, has disappeared from the radar, but should reappear quickly. Improvements are plentiful with this update, both inside and out, and the build quality is supposedly much better.
Therefore, we can imagine only one scenario when it comes to the front camera of the Tesla Model 3: the first deliveries will ignore the latter, and it will only be in a second time that it will arrive on the electric sedan. Indeed, if we rule out the possibility of an unfortunate error when publishing the visuals, this means thatthere will indeed be Tesla Model 3s with this camera under the front bumper.
However, since Tesla deleted all images and videos that showed this camera, first-time buyers shouldn’t expect to find one when they take possession in the coming weeks. But like the Tesla Model 3 Performance which disappeared, this camera will inevitably reappear in the near future. It is also likely that Tesla quickly deleted the videos that displayed this additional camera, and did not officially communicate on it so as not to deprive itself of certain commands.
Tesla Model 3 with or without front camera?
Indeed, if Tesla announces today that Model 3s ordered between today and next January will not have a camera under the front fascia, but that all orders placed after will have it, the company will have a hard time crazy to fill his order book. His ostrich strategy may be trying to hide what the Tesla Model 3 Highlands that roll off production lines first won’t have.
Is it a supply concern, or Tesla’s desire to reserve this camera for the Performance model, for example? Only the future will tell us. Note that the Tesla Model S, Model Y and Model X do not currently have a camera under their front bumper. To remain attractive, these three vehicles must not lag significantly behind the Model 3 in technology. There remains a lot of vagueness around this camera, and it is likely that we are not done hearing about it yet.
As a reminder, this camera should significantly improve driving aids, especially for low-speed maneuvers with Tesla Vision.
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