Tesla Ideas Safety

Problem: the child-protection lock for the falcon wing doors only prevents a child from opening the FWDs. It does not turn off the switch for purposes of closing the doors. Anyone with kids knows that this button is enticing! And they can easily touch the button with their hands or feet (by accident or on purpose).

 

Solution: Disable this FWD button on the pillar when the child protection lock is enabled.

Accidentally leaving a child in the back seat, especially on hot days, has become a national epidemic. Even the most well meaning parent occasionally becomes preoccupied, which can lead to tragedy. This modification would create a Child Safety mode which, when turned on via software, will create audio and visual (on touchscreen) reminders that a child is in the back seat. It would be triggered whenever the car is put... more »

The idea would be to have the speed your car is traveling to be overlaid on the dashcam footage. This would be helpful for using dashcam footage for insurance footage or for disputing speeding tickets.

During an emergency, especially in highly populated, highly traffic area or no one nearby, if driver got some problems and if he can't drive like if his legs are paining , the person sitting along with him can drive like a car game using Keyboard or Joystick plugged to the car system or a non driver i.e., who don't know drive, can use this to drive the Car

Hey guys, it would be great if you could somehow coordinate with emergency services so they could select a destination route which would update any cars travelling along that route that an emergency vehicle will be approaching sometime shortly. therefore advising the driver to pull over to the left hand Lane and clear the space

Develop a new neural net just for potholes dubbed, Deep Pothole (or Deep Hole) purely for detecting potholes in the road. The system would upload pothole location data to the cloud, building a global map of all potholes (aka PotMap). Also autopilot would avoid the pothole automatically. Finally, if you're not using autopilot, a warning would chime if a pothole is coming.

You should allow a setting of example; 5 miles an hour over detected speed limit. Instead of just max speed, make a max speed over speed limit control.

If I have a situation where I need to "take control immediately" , please add a voice. My eyes need to be on the road, not trying to read the small print on the screen warning.

When parked, this vehicle would greatly increase security be angling to rear cameras on each side to catch license plates and pedestrians that pass by. This is greatly beneficial as home surveillance systems and parking lots cannot capture this angle that appears to be the most important for identification of A$$holes breaking stuff. (I have been involved in security for years and this idea alone would had led to catching... more »

Add a healthy hot-rod revving noise to let people know you are there. Or even better, add it to the toolbox to let other cars know they won't win.

The head light of the truck does not give any aerodynamic advantage whereas a triangular light bar that could change its angle according to speed will be advantageous and will increase efficiency.

There has been moveable headlamps but these headlights increased drag because of pop out design.

The light bar type headlight instead of being flat at low speed and at 90° to the air resistance but when the truck reaches relatively... more »

The auto dimmed mirrors on the model 3 are too dark, especially if you have tinted windows it makes the mirrors useless and the car is difficult to drive at night. A setting to disable the auto-dimming mirrors would work, or a slider where we can adjust how much they dim. Currently they do not rely on the brightness of headlights behind the vehicle, they simply default to max dimming which is too dark without tint and... more »

Once there is a red light or a crossing in front or just a queue of cars ahead, one must slow down the speed by manually adjusting the speed with the velocity pedal to make the slow down smooth stopping just at the right place eg. one meter behind the vehicle in front.
The idea is to simply allow a smart desceleration mode where the car does not recuperate in a fixed way but it calculates the optimal desceleration curve... more »

In Germany it is legally required to create an emergency lane between the leftmost lane and the one next to it when vehicles are stopped on the highway or move at crawling pace.

Create a mode for Autopilot in its menu, or a virtual button to tap on the screen when encountering a traffic jam, where if it detects it is driving on the leftmost lane, it will follow the car ahead like usual, but before stopping, it will try... more »

I rented a Jeep (back when I drove my i-miev) that had this (along with creep on/off), and my dad's Mazda does both, too:

 

Add car software ability to let user set to turn off automatic turn indicator feature where, if driving without Auto Lane Change active, the turn indicators flash three times if the turn indicator lever is activated by the driver for less than a maximum amount of time (Three flashes is an unsafely... more »