I had to do this once or twice (its very very infrequent in my experience) and one time it was genuinely terrifying, as I had lost blinkers etc where a few interstates all intersect and merge etc.
I still do love the car though.... but a very sketchy moment that I shouldn't have brought on myself while driving in that situation.
Tesla doesn't do that, you're misunderstanding. You can do a hart reboot on the computer by yourself, by holding down both steering will scroll wheels for 10 seconds. Fixes any glitches with the screen.
A lot of silliness has been tossed around about Teslas in this thread so let's be clear about how they work. A Tesla vehicle have two main independent systems:
- The "car" that operates the motors, blinkers, shifting, Autopilot, etc. It also supplies standard readouts via OBD that you can monitor independently e.g. with a phone app. As far as I'm aware, it is impossible to turn this machine off except when the car is stationary, in park, and the brake is fully pressed (or by disconnecting the 400V battery leads under the rear seat).
- The infotainment computer is a small Linux machine that displays the map, speedometer, music, plays the sound of the blinkers through the speakers, and random other stuff. This system can be reset at any time by holding the two scroll wheels.
There are valid things to criticize about this setup e.g. by not having a standard fallback display of speedo, but you can still read speed from OBD at all times. And Tesla has broken things in OTA updates before, but their rollouts are heavily staged. The last major revert I can remember was FSD beta 10.3 in 2021 back when it had reached a few 10s of testers.
it didn't initiate it, I did. I should've waited like..... 30 seconds or until I was stopped quite honestly. I'm fully aware of how the vehicle operates and I would consider myself solely responsible for initiating the reboot.
That said, it was weird that the blinkers didn't work, but it may be that the sound in the cabin wasn't playing and the blinkers were just fine... and in hindsight thats probably accurate.
Point being, I picked literally the worst place to do that reboot. I would consider the need for the reboot in that situation to be on tesla maybe, but the choice to perform it when I did was solely on me.
I dislike elon as much as the next person (i like to think more, but some people definitely me beat).... but the car is solid... i just never thought i'd say "i need to reboot my car's computer"
Tesla, whose computer systems quite regularly need to be hard rebooted while the car is driving? That Tesla?