Tesla Ideas Safety

After seeing several videos of angry motorbike riders taking out their frustration on Teslas, I wonder if part of the reason is the activation of brake lights whenever the accelerator pedal is released.

As a lifelong manual driver I have always been careful to change down rather than brake to avoid annoying the drivers behind. I find it most embarrassing that, in my Tesla, I am constantly flashing my brake lights even... more »

It would be a really handy idea of TeslaCam video didn't just erase itself at the start of every trip. It used to just pile up till the storage was full and then stop working till cleaned up. Now, it erases it self at the start of every trip. Nice in theory, but I'm sure that many of us have had occasion to want to go back to an event earlier in the day to check something.

Personally, I had a brick sized piece of asphalt... more »

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.

Auto wipers in the Y and 3 ramp up way too fast. How about making "Auto" toggle On/Off and let us select how aggressive it is using the controls ' '' ''' ''''

We have created a seat sensor for vehicles. This is a smart sensor that will be able to tell how big the person is in the vehicle. The sensor will also be able to tell the position the person is in while driving the vehicle and if a crash were to occur. This sensor will be able to tell if the person in the vehicle is an adult, child, car seat, box, or even an animal. This will let the vehicle know to deploy an airbag... more »

In addition to tilting the rear mirrors down when backing up, it would be helpful to show the side cameras when backing up on the display. Especially since the S/X is so wide, its helpful to see the curb when parking.

Record from all cameras when pulled over by the police (even the inside camera on the Model 3).

It would be nice if there was a way to communicate with other drivers in a less one-dimensional way by having a "friendly" horn sound option. A really good example is this video:

Attaching buckles by illuminating would be easier, quicker and helpful to locate.

Caution front brake lights work just like the rear brake lights do but they only when your turn signals are on. This lets oncoming traffic see when your going to turn left or right in front of them. This also lets pedestrians know when it is safe to cross the crosswalk letting them know when your going to make your turn. This is my patented idea that I have on my truck and people will step back onto the curb when they... more »

From I was a kid I've always wondered why car brakes lights are the same strength of viability/light intensity no matter if you slightly touch the breaks or you full on emergency stop. If break lights had a Gradual lighting system, this would give drivers behind travelling cars an indication to how 'hard' the car in front was braking. This would help prevent accidents as well as cut down on the overuse of break pads and... more »

When in park, all the rear cameras would look for cyclists (or cars) coming up from behind and show some kind of alert so you don't door a cyclist. When you're parked next to a bike lane, show a warning when in park to look out for cyclists.

The new wireless charging points are a great convenience. But it makes it easier to accidentally leave your phone in the car as you leave. The car should detect that the phone used to open the car is still inside the car as the driver exits the vehicle and use the external speaker to remind them of this.

Allow us to purchase via in App an upgrade for fog lights on TM3 SR+. This would allow us in environments with heavy fog to stay a bit safer. (And, these are expensive cars to not have fog lights.)

 

Fingers crossed for this to happen. Thank you!

Put an overlay on the rear facing camera showing the distance of cars behind and on the sides. The fish eye lense makes cars appear farther than they actually are.