CyberTruck Wife Interface Issue

[ferrellcharles]

This post is meant to be humorous, but we did actually have an issue this morning that I'd like to know if anyone else has ever seen.

The wife has a long trip to a specialist appointment today, so yesterday we sat together (with her in the driver's seat, her profile set as active) and entered the address into the Navigation, and saved the address as a Favorite so that it would be readily available. Then we went over how "easy" it is to get it going in just 3 clicks (Navigation field, then Favorites, then click address).

So she departed early this morning, and about 15 minutes into the ride I get a phone call from her stating the address has disappeared, and only the keyboard appears on the screen when she clicks the Navigation field, and that the Recents/Favorites lists have disappeared, and she can't get the keyboard to go away and she can't find the Favorites no matter what she does. Sigh.

I'm sure there's lipstick and powder flying everywhere as well while she's trying to do this, so at this point I'm afraid she's going to run off the road with so many activities going on. So I finally got her to pull over so we can FaceTime and she can "show" me the screen. Sure enough, only the keyboard appears when she clicks the Navigation field, and the Recents/Favorites list is gone... nothing appears except the keyboard.

I'm stumped. I have no idea how she managed to get it do this, or if it's a software bug. These types of things NEVER happen to me, but it seems she has extra-special super powers to do "nothing out of the ordinary" but these types of things to ALWAYS happen for her with almost anything you can think of... but I digress. When she gets back, I'll check and see if I can figure out what's happened with the Favorites, but was just curious if anyone else has experienced this issue with the Recents/Favorites menu disappearing?

I ended up walking her through typing the address in manually and got her going thank goodness. Then I explained that, for safety reasons, she should always set the navigation before she departs to make sure she's not trying to do this while she's driving. There was no response to that suggestion.

She has one charging stop along the way... please work, please work, please work. I've got a few hours before she gets there.

On a positive note, my wife can now miraculously back into parking spaces and parallel park! I shit you not! And she does a great job of it whereas she was always scared/leery of it before. It's like her brain naturally "gets it" with the 4-wheel steering and she is always saying how much easier it is to drive/maneuver. It could be that she was "forced" into learning to back into our home parking spot so that it can be plugged into the charger, but I'd never been able to get her to back into a parking space before because she's always said it's "just too difficult." She loves that she can "see where the back wheels are going" in the mirrors when she's backing up. Her Dodge has barely moved since she figured out how to drive the CT. I think we're going to need another CT.

P.S. Not complaining about the makeup because it always makes the truck smells good, but could use the FSD for safety. LOL!

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[XCeilidhX]

Out of curiosity, did you do this first under your driver profile and then she put in her own when she got in the driver’s seat? It could be that the favorites are specific to each driver profile only so if she put in her own to have her own seat and mirror adjustments and all that it would be like she never had put in anything if you were in the driver seat when you explained it to her and you were on your profile at the time. Not sure if that could be it but that would be my first thought.

Cheers

 

[GatorCyber]

This post is meant to be humorous, but we did actually have an issue this morning that I'd like to know if anyone else has ever seen.

The wife has a long trip to a specialist appointment today, so yesterday we sat together (with her in the driver's seat, her profile set as active) and entered the address into the Navigation, and saved the address as a Favorite so that it would be readily available. Then we went over how "easy" it is to get it going in just 3 clicks (Navigation field, then Favorites, then click address).

So she departed early this morning, and about 15 minutes into the ride I get a phone call from her stating the address has disappeared, and only the keyboard appears on the screen when she clicks the Navigation field, and that the Recents/Favorites lists have disappeared, and she can't get the keyboard to go away and she can't find the Favorites no matter what she does. Sigh.

I'm sure there's lipstick and powder flying everywhere as well while she's trying to do this, so at this point I'm afraid she's going to run off the road with so many activities going on. So I finally got her to pull over so we can FaceTime and she can "show" me the screen. Sure enough, only the keyboard appears when she clicks the Navigation field, and the Recents/Favorites list is gone... nothing appears except the keyboard.

I'm stumped. I have no idea how she managed to get it do this, or if it's a software bug. These types of things NEVER happen to me, but it seems she has extra-special super powers to do "nothing out of the ordinary" but these types of things to ALWAYS happen for her with almost anything you can think of... but I digress. When she gets back, I'll check and see if I can figure out what's happened with the Favorites, but was just curious if anyone else has experienced this issue with the Recents/Favorites menu disappearing?

I ended up walking her through typing the address in manually and got her going thank goodness. Then I explained that, for safety reasons, she should always set the navigation before she departs to make sure she's not trying to do this while she's driving. There was no response to that suggestion.

She has one charging stop along the way... please work, please work, please work. I've got a few hours before she gets there.

On a positive note, my wife can now miraculously back into parking spaces and parallel park! I shit you not! And she does a great job of it whereas she was always scared/leery of it before. It's like her brain naturally "gets it" with the 4-wheel steering and she is always saying how much easier it is to drive/maneuver. It could be that she was "forced" into learning to back into our home parking spot so that it can be plugged into the charger, but I'd never been able to get her to back into a parking space before because she's always said it's "just too difficult." She loves that she can "see where the back wheels are going" in the mirrors when she's backing up. Her Dodge has barely moved since she figured out how to drive the CT. I think we're going to need another CT.

P.S. Not complaining about the makeup because it always makes the truck smells good, but could use the FSD for safety. LOL!

you could have also sent the address and route to the truck directly from your app. No need to have her do it.

 

[ferrellcharles]

Thanks, everyone! I was aware of profiles, so we did make sure that she entered the truck first, and I did confirm that her profile was connected first before adding the favorite. It was added to the favorites while her profile was active using the big touchscreen (didn't use the app) while she was sitting in the driver's seat, and I was in the passenger seat.

She's on her way back now and she had no other issues getting to her appointment. I'll check it again when she gets home and see if we can replicate the problem.

 

[Jack27]

This reminds me of my grandmother who I go to her house atleast one time a week to fix the TV because she touched 1 wrong button on the remote
Then preceded to hit 200
More to try to fix it
But every single time insist “I did it like you said “ and my wife isn’t far behind with things around here

 

[Frank_Castle]

One of the funniest posts ever.

 

[CactusPilot]

Here is another "trick"....You can "share" the address to your Cybertruck via your phone. I sometimes do this before I head out to the garage.

You could have "sent" the address to her using your phone.

I'm an Android user, but I believe you can also share via apple maps.

Here is how I do it. I search using Google maps for an address. I select the address and then select the "share" icon at the bottom of the screen. Then I scroll and find the Tesla app icon to share with. Like magic, the address is sent to my truck and will be waiting for me...If you have multiple Teslas, make sure you have the correct car pre selected in the app.

Good luck.

 

[65SoYoLO]

Here is another "trick"....You can "share" the address to your Cybertruck via your phone. I sometimes do this before I head out to the garage.

You could have "sent" the address to her using your phone.

I'm an Android user, but I believe you can also share via apple maps.

Here is how I do it. I search using Google maps for an address. I select the address and then select the "share" icon at the bottom of the screen. Then I scroll and find the Tesla app icon to share with. Like magic, the address is sent to my truck and will be waiting for me...If you have multiple Teslas, make sure you have the correct car pre selected in the app.

Good luck.

I LOVE this feature but today it did not work. It gave me an error message.

 

[Sjohnson20]

This reminds me of my grandmother who I go to her house atleast one time a week to fix the TV because she touched 1 wrong button on the remote
Then preceded to hit 200
More to try to fix it
But every single time insist “I did it like you said “ and my wife isn’t far behind with things around here

Oh God yes this is my life. The TV won't turn on! Help!

 

[ferrellcharles]

Here is another "trick"....You can "share" the address to your Cybertruck via your phone. I sometimes do this before I head out to the garage.

You could have "sent" the address to her using your phone.

I'm an Android user, but I believe you can also share via apple maps.

Here is how I do it. I search using Google maps for an address. I select the address and then select the "share" icon at the bottom of the screen. Then I scroll and find the Tesla app icon to share with. Like magic, the address is sent to my truck and will be waiting for me...If you have multiple Teslas, make sure you have the correct car pre selected in the app.

Good luck.

I wish I had have thought of this during the heat of the "emergency" LOL!!! I had played with this before and I know it works. Will remember it next time. Thank you!!!

 

[Beyond]

Oh God yes this is my life. The TV won't turn on! Help!

I do a lot of computer support for people my age (and younger). The questions are often "interesting". Heaven help us when they decide to convert their home movies to digital files.

 

[TeX19]

An easier option is to use your voice command, i.e. "navigate to ..........." I find this to work best while driving.

 

[Stuck4ger]

An easier option is to use your voice command, i.e. "navigate to ..........." I find this to work best while driving.

Yes, it works amazingly well. Better than Google or Apple Maps and a zillion times better than any other auto OEM nav software that I’ve tried.

 

[rtfitch]

This reminds me of my grandmother who I go to her house atleast one time a week to fix the TV because she touched 1 wrong button on the remote
Then preceded to hit 200
More to try to fix it
But every single time insist “I did it like you said “ and my wife isn’t far behind with things around here

I understand, I am required to put "FRESH AIR" in my mother-in-law's tires every 30 days because the 'stale air' decreases the efficiency of the tires. I no longer argue, just get a stool, rotate around the car and drink her beer. Cripes, she is 91, who am I to ask for logical answers anymore.

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