@Westcork-ul1ww
Thank you for making this video. My car can fart, it can play La Cucaracha through the horn, and it has karaoke, but it can't remember what I was listening to before I parked. I love how the Tesla drives and how it handles. But it's very difficult to tolerate as a daily driver. It really is the most dangerous car I have driven because I have to take my eyes off the road to do basic things like use the defroster or adjust the mirrors.
@valengreymoon5623
Those screens are more complicated and distracting than old-school buttons, switches and knobs one could operate by feel, without taking their eyes off the road.
@tng2057
Japanese cars and increasingly Korean cars make things as easy as possible. Their philosophy is to cater for customers needs. Tesla (like Mercedes) are very arrogant and basically instructs you to adapt to their ways.
@GoddessOfMisfortune
I'd heard they were bad, but wow, that's an incredibly distracting display for a car while driving. To the point of being an actual hazard. Combined with the dysfunction of the system, I'm surprised they didn't use a more well-proven software for the index and playback.
@sparky6086
This reminds me of the cheapest car stereos from Walmart over a dozen years ago, when they first began having USB & SD card slots. Better than nothing, but they had horribly bad indexing. They'd be much better off, if there were no attempt at indexing at all, than what they had!
@bmhsonic
Spot on! When you talked about Ford's Sync I was thinking the same thing! God I love my Tesla Model 3, but how in the heck did Ford do it better when comes to playing music from the USB?!?? I really hope that Tesla will fix this, and also give us the ability to just use our VOICE when searching for songs on our USB drive. This experience could be much MUCH better.
@Lensman864
I agree; I've been experiencing all the issues you documented with USB based flac files in my Model 3. My first problem was that (unknown to me) in my late 2021 car only the glovebox port is data enabled. When I realised that I had to partition a 1Tb stick into music and TeslaCam but it works. Everything you say is correct and also irritating me; not least the lack of (poor) speech recognition. One trick you've missed is that the alphabetical side index bar (on the right of Album/Folders etc) can be dragged. You don't have to scroll up the list of data on the main section, just hold down the index bar and drag it up/down. It's still bad but not AS bad ...
@tugatomskanimation6370
This seems to be the first step towards forcing drivers to listen to music online.
@richardcrossley5581
Thanks, you've kept me off Tesla if I ever return to a place where I need to drive. Not being able to play the music they way I want bugs me. I could do that in the 1980s with cassette tape. Personally I like being able to play an album in the order it was recorded, especially important for concept albums, of which I have a few. As for removing a service and then pushing you to a paid for service, well I'm old and cynical enough to know what that means.
@robertwestinghouse4098
You are allowed a few rants.....love your work
@NealNelson
I test drove a Polestar 2 recently and that has absolutely no way to play music from USB. It was a complete deal breaker to me.
@TheKafinjers
I feel your pain…. I was going to buy myself a DS7 - but there is literally no way of playing LPs. Completely changed my mind.
@Tarex_
Absolutely valid rant, my jvc without a fancy display solved this and has ipod support (indicator of how old it is) and i can navigate a 64gb usb stick no problem and it's available within seconds after starting the car and is searchable
@markc3874
Did these updates happen after the Christmas (24th Dec 2021) Tesla Model 3 update. After that update I have now been unable to switch on heated seats from the front screen or turn on the heater windscreen. The options that we are now allowed to pin to the front screen are mainly linked to things you can't use whilst the car is moving.
@verttikoo2052
I really don’t like if the car tries to start connecting me to something 🤔
@mikemapson7281
well Andrew, there is one simple rule about buying modern American designed and built cars: DON'T. the equation of 'maximise profit + relatively cheap to buy + tick all the want boxes = it won't work properly.' old school British & American motors were honed over generations with 'new' cars often being little more than a rebody of a previous one with new gizmos being added to comply with the latest legislation and market whims. and being ex-Microsoft, you should know all about operating systems not working properly (I'm thinking DOS based here) in the great push to get the latest mass-market must-have on the shelf. take a look at the Scotty Kilmer channel sometime, he really understands reliable cars
@AxeGaijin
Tesla is the Electronic Arts of the car world.
@wclifton968gameplaystutorials
From looking online, it appears that the Tesla infotainment system is built using QT so I don't know why they don't just take the KDE program "Elisa" or some other FOSS music application and use that for music playback instead since some of their software clearly isn't very good although at least it appears to be better than much of the competition...
@Megadriver
You should check out Mercedes' navigation system... For some reason, you have to give it a ZIP code first, before you can type in a street, or a town name. Especially if you live in Germany! Meaning, you often need to take your phone out and look up the zip code... and you usually do that on google and end up using google maps as a navigator, instead of that 3000 Euro Infotainment system you paid for. Maybe Germans are required to memorize all zip codes in kindergarten, I don't know... but the rest of us don't usually memorize zip codes XD I should mention, this happens only when your Mercedes is set up in German. Why you ask? Because if you live in Germany and want to type in a town name, you need to have the car language set to German to be able to type those all important umlauts many addresses tend to have in their names. You will struggle to type in addresses in Germany, if your Mercedes language is set to English, or anything other than German. It's just lazy design. My phone keyboard has umlauts and other characters, should you need one... press down on a letter and you get a small selection screen. Why don't they do that?! You can make the voice command system tell you a joke, or share it's opinion on BMWs... but you can't make it navigate somewhere without a zip code.
@SteelSkin667