Tesla has removed features on its newer models, including park assist. A decision that bothers users, but is part of the Tesla Vision project. Eventually, they should be available again.
” Hello, I don’t understand, I just got my Tesla back and I can’t activate the reversing “beeps”. I went to the settings where it said and I can’t find the option. Do you think there is a problem? This message can be read several times a week on forums, groups and Reddit pages where Tesla owners discuss. The answer to the question is simple: no, the car has no problem. And no, you don’t have any audible or visual parking assistance.
To answer this question more precisely, it should be remembered that the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y delivered from the last quarter of 2022 are not equipped with radars or USS (ultrasound system). The Model S and X will no longer have them in 2023, according to Tesla. The absence of radar limits features related to Autopilot, such as the distance a Tesla can drive behind another car when driver assistance is activated.
The absence of the ultrasound system removes what are popularly called beep beep, or parking assistance. On Teslas equipped with these sensors (small circles that you can see very clearly on the bodywork), the car will emit a sound to accompany your parking and prevent you from hitting a wall. It will also, on the screen, frame the image of the vehicle with an outline going from green to red, materializing the distance with a wall. If you received a model without these sensors, you simply don’t have parking assistance apart from the side cameras and the rear camera. It is useless to look in the settings: you do not have, physically, the sensors which allow it.
Tesla Vision, Elon Musk’s promise
But then, has your new Tesla lost a feature compared to the same model released only a few months ago? For now yes.
On the other hand, this withdrawal is part of the Tesla Vision project of the firm of Elon Musk, which consists in gradually removing all the equipment for capturing the environment of the vehicle to keep only the cameras. Tesla is convinced of this: progress in computer vision will eventually make it possible to offer an assisted driving experience (if not perfectly autonomous) without going through radars, lidars or ultrasound systems. The firm has already caught up with some features in Autopilot since the disappearance of the radar.
But the promises are slow to be realized and at the start of 2023, Tesla Vision is in fact a regression compared to what Tesla offered before. If only for the complete parking aids and the Autopilot which can no longer be set to “one car apart”. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine a release date for the update which would definitively restore all the Tesla aids.
