Tesla’s replace will begin rolling out subsequent week and can lastly carry Apple Watch help to the Tesla app, together with native telephone key entry. That means you may depart your smartphone behind to run errands or rapidly pop your trunk to seize one thing after operating exterior with out realizing you don’t have your telephone or pockets on you (I’ve carried out this too many occasions with my Model 3 than I care to confess.)
The native Apple Watch expertise enables you to view the cost standing, pop the frunk, and remotely heat up your automobile. Third-party smartwatch apps similar to “Watch for Tesla” added this performance within the absence of a first-party resolution, however now Tesla has Sherlocked all of them.
Another large new function is the flexibility to view Dashcam and Sentry Mode recordings out of your telephone and save clips to your machine to share crash footage with insurance coverage or regulation enforcement rapidly.
It wouldn’t be a vacation replace with out the return of Tesla’s mild present that syncs the lights, sounds, and extra between a variety of automobiles. Tesla made two new exhibits this yr and can be giving Cybertrucks a brand new Santa mode that turns the onscreen 3D Cybertruck right into a Tesla Bot using in a cyber sleigh. If Santa isn’t your factor you can too now add wraps and customized plates to your onscreen Cybertruck. The truck can be getting Arcade video games within the rear seat display screen and a bigger onscreen rear digital camera feed with pinch-to-zoom help.
A pair different large options embrace bringing Model S and X’s auto-shift function to stalk-free Model 3 automobiles that makes an attempt to guess while you wish to shift between drive and reverse. It’s an answer to an issue the automaker shoved onto clients as an obvious cost-cutting measure that’s by some means not formally a security concern.
Tesla does steadiness that out with a brand new and helpful security replace. There’s now a rear cross-traffic alert function that provides drivers an audible warning and a pink bar on their rearview digital camera feed if it detects automobiles or pedestrians coming from behind whereas in reverse. Music also can now scale back quantity routinely when in reverse, a function that has lengthy been out there from different automakers.
The replace additionally enables you to set “arrival vitality at vacation spot,” which implies you may inform the Tesla how a lot battery cost you need on the finish of the journey. That’s helpful if you may’t cost at your vacation spot and must have reserve vitality while you’re prepared on your subsequent drive.
Finally, there’s the flexibility to seek for locations in your route with detour time estimates, climate and precipitation indicators on the map on your vacation spot, a brand new Sirius XM app (for Model 3, Y, Cybertruck), TuneIn app enhancements, in-vehicle upkeep summaries, the flexibility to regulate unoccupied passenger seats from the display screen, door deal with pull alert notifications, and a brand new get together recreation known as Boomerang Fu amongst different options. Oh, and the fart app can now go off as quickly as somebody sits down on a seat. Whoopie!
