Locked Out-Be Careful (leaving phone in truck)

[georgek43]

Tesla should put facial recognition on the driver side pillar camera

Best idea! I would love that.

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[Gigahorse]

Tesla should put facial recognition on the driver side pillar camera

Seems like no facial recognition on these cars is a crazy oversight

 

[pae1andonly]

I've thought no HUD was the glaring high-tech omission. Got that ginormous FLAT windscreen and no HUD at all. Particularly with Full Self Nagging being so focused on eyes up and out.

 

[hemiarch]

That’s true. Of course you can “keep outlets on” and/or “keep accessory power on” to work around that. My mini is wired to my frunk feed which works separately from all of the above options. Works really well.

Mine too. This is the way

 

[TJCJr9999]

How did you contact your son since your phone was inside the truck?

Also, there is an option under locks to turn off the window close on lock.

 

[BeFamousVideo]

Consider taking your phone if you step out of your truck. I was at a boat ramp Saturday, got out of the truck to chat with someone. I had my windows down and phone in the truck.

After a minute or so I heard my lock sound and my windows went up. I guess the Bluetooth disconnected. Truck was I the middle of the lot and in the way.

I do keep a key in my wallet, which was in the truck.

After 20 minutes or so I tracked down my son who is an additional driver. He unlocked truck from 1200 miles away.

Wow. Thanks for posting. My phone does disconnect randomly even when I'm at the tailgate loading the vault.

 

[HaulingAss]

Wow. Thanks for posting. My phone does disconnect randomly even when I'm at the tailgate loading the vault.

Yes, there's a Bluetooth reception dead zone behind the truck. IMO, this is the single biggest flaw of the Cybertruck. I'm constantly stepping to the left side of the tailgate to operate the tonneau or unlock the tailgate. I have an old phone though, I don't know if the latest/greatest Bluetooth (LE?) mitigates this issue at all.

 

[SCTesla]

Seems like no facial recognition on these cars is a crazy oversight

It's not as easy as it sounds, unless they process that information in the cloud which requires additional data. To do it on the truck, it would take significant resources. HW4 is currently pretty maxed out on memory. It may have been possible, but that's a lot of work, effort, and additional phantom drain when Tesla can just do phone key like the rest of their fleet.

 

[L3it3R]

What phone? Literally never happened to me over the last 5 years of owning various teslas

 

[Limes2]

Tesla should put facial recognition on the driver side pillar camera

They have a patent for that.

 

[Limes2]

Seems like no facial recognition on these cars is a crazy oversight

They still could add that as a software update but I think facial recognition has a bad PR image. Could make it optional to use however.

 

[shopaholic]

Too much of a security risk.

An iris scan can be easily incorporated and lot more secure than face detection.

 

[Gigahorse]

They still could add that as a software update but I think facial recognition has a bad PR image. Could make it optional to use however.

Hope those folks don't figure out that the cabin camera is always on

 

[Gigahorse]

It's not as easy as it sounds, unless they process that information in the cloud which requires additional data. To do it on the truck, it would take significant resources. HW4 is currently pretty maxed out on memory. It may have been possible, but that's a lot of work, effort, and additional phantom drain when Tesla can just do phone key like the rest of their fleet.

If the cellphone from 2012 I just pulled out of a drawer has facial recognition on it I am sure the most advanced car company in the world could pull it off to prevent people from getting locked out of their cars when they drop their phone or the battery goes dead.

 

[REM]

An iris scan can be easily incorporated and lot more secure than face detection.

Those are probably super expensive and require much cleaner conditions than the exterior of a motor vehicle.

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