We need a YouTube channel for "legacy" Tesla's!

RNHurt

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You know how all the Tesla YouTubers have the latest and greatest vehicles and are always posting the results of the latest software updates? Well, there should be a YouTube channel for those of us with legacy vehicles complaining about shit that doesn't work right in our cars. Just post a new video every week saying things like "Yup, the latest update broke my backup camera. It's been broken for 3 months now and it doesn't look like it will every work." Or, "I see that everyone else is getting "Construction on your route" notifications in their maps. I guess that's one more thing we'll never get". Basically a bitch and moan channel about the car that Tesla sold you that they are forgetting about.

I wonder if that would bring more attention to our plight. 🤔
 

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Or someone from Tesla just literally needs to look at this forum. If they were able to implement/fix some of the issues/ideas we have brought up here they would literally have no issues.😂
 
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You know how all the Tesla YouTubers have the latest and greatest vehicles and are always posting the results of the latest software updates? Well, there should be a YouTube channel for those of us with legacy vehicles complaining about shit that doesn't work right in our cars. Just post a new video every week saying things like "Yup, the latest update broke my backup camera. It's been broken for 3 months now and it doesn't look like it will every work." Or, "I see that everyone else is getting "Construction on your route" notifications in their maps. I guess that's one more thing we'll never get". Basically a bitch and moan channel about the car that Tesla sold you that they are forgetting about.

I wonder if that would bring more attention to our plight. 🤔
If you do that the videos would be a weekly 40min rant and it would get very boring very quickly. XD
Tesla created its own problems by making radical choices in its cars and it shows (bland exterior design, subpar noise protection, HW3 not able to achieve full autonomy due to not having enough computing power, no rain detector resulting in VERY random rain detection, making software changes that are sometimes downgrading things instead of upgrading them, etc).
These radical choices were not much of an issue in the past since the competition was kilometers behind so you could say that while it was an inconvenience it was a minor one, but now that they have catched up, not only Tesla needs to upgrade its game but it needs to do it very quickly.
So I think that Tesla doesn't need a YT channel to tell them what's wrong, they know. And they will fix the issues... Eventually (when their profits will start going downhill).
 
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Is the pre Highland Model 3 also defined as "Legacy" already? :LOL:
Purchased a new 2023 M3 / HW3 less than 1 1/2 years ago, but can’t get the latest FSD updates that everyone praises.

Correction; a few YouTubers that live in Cali 🤔
 
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RNHurt

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If you do that the videos would be a weekly 40min rant and it would get very boring very quickly. XD
Yea, my idea was to create super short videos (YouTube Shorts?) to highlight one or two things at a time. 🤷‍♂️

Tesla created its own problems by making radical choices in its cars and it shows (bland exterior design, subpar noise protection, HW3 not able to achieve full autonomy due to not having enough computing power, no rain detector resulting in VERY random rain detection, making software changes that are sometimes downgrading things instead of upgrading them, etc).
These radical choices were not much of an issue in the past since the competition was kilometers behind so you could say that while it was an inconvenience it was a minor one, but now that they have catched up, not only Tesla needs to upgrade its game but it needs to do it very quickly.
I don't think it's so much that competitors are catching up, I think it's more that Tesla communicated that their vehicles would get continuous improvements. While I think they've done a pretty good job (mostly) there are some pretty glaring gaps. It's especial grievous when things that used to work fine get broken in an update (ie. auto-opening front door not respecting the "Exclude at home" setting).

So I think that Tesla doesn't need a YT channel to tell them what's wrong, they know. And they will fix the issues... Eventually (when their profits will start going downhill).
Maybe Tesla knows that these things are broken, maybe they don't. It's really hard to tell when they don't have any sort of customer communication platform, well, other than X. It would be nice if they had an "official" Tesla account here and/or maybe on TMC (Tesla Motors Club). At least we could get a confirmation that they heard us and acknowledge the problem. That will never happen though.
 
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