We got an upgraded car today, for free!

Our Tesla Model 3 RWD 2022 now has vision assisted parking. It uses the eight cameras to plot a 3D model of the world around the car, while parking. It shows close objects in orange and red, to alert to proximity. It makes us better aware of obstacles that vision can see, but sonic sensors can’t, such as high gutters that would scrape the car.

Since we also have EAP (Enhanced Autopilot), the auto parking is also updated with the 3D vision. When I stop the car, I can tap on the Tesla screen on an available space in the car park, and the car will park itself. I tried it once today, and it seemed much faster than the previous ultrasonic sensor based parking.

All of this upgrading just happened overnight, when the OTA (over the air) update downloaded via the Internet.

This is one of the things that Tesla does particularly well – ongoing updates to the car’s features at no extra cost.