Tesla is apparently working on a new feature for its popular electric vehicles. Although, this might not be a highly anticipated one, as it oddly locks users out of seat controls, if they fiddle with it a bit too much.
According to hacker and researcher @greentheonly on Twitter, the new feature from the American EV maker will be rolled out to prevent excessive abuse of seat controls. The company recently began installing new seat motors in some of its Model 3 and Model Y series EVs, which aren’t made from China’s Yangfeng and its on in house production. These new motors are made by Brose.
But the striking difference between the two other motors and the Brose one is what the hacker dubbed as a “seat abuse” metric. In other words, this new feature will issue warning to users if they make too many adjustments. Furthermore, it will outright disable seat controls as well, if the user does not take note of these warnings. This also implies that the Tesla Model EV is keeping track of the number of adjustments a user is making.
While this might sound like the brand is taking control away from the users, keep in mind that the feature will apparently kick in only when seat controls are used “excessively.” Meaning, it could be for children that tend to mess around with buttons. The first warning shows the message “Excessive use of seat track motor detected,” which is displayed after 90 seconds of use within a 5 minute period. So it doesn’t sound that bad right now. But we will have to wait and see just how this works in real life scenarios.
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