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Knowing the Tesla owner community quite well, I suspect Tesla was hoping nobody would find out it’s a dummy and complain that the newer cars are inferior to the older ones (like they did with the radar and ultrasonic sensors)
The cars are steadily getting worse though. The first model s which I still have was fantastic. Since then I have moved over to the taycan.
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My guess would be so that eagle-eyed ocd tesla owners don’t freak out over seeming to have fewer cameras in their car than their buddy’s previous model year version. I’m certain there’s be posts complaining about being short a camera without any understanding of hw4 being better despite having a smaller quantity of cameras.
I bet this is at least part of the reason if not all.
The fake camera feels like it's trying to mislead people.
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I bet this is at least part of the reason if not all.
It's still incredibly bizarre to go through the effort of manufacturing a real-looking fake camera instead of using an industry-standard feature-delete panel like the entire rest of the automotive industry. The fake camera feels like it's trying to mislead people.
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It's still incredibly bizarre to go through the effort of manufacturing a real-looking fake camera instead of using an industry-standard feature-delete panel like the entire rest of the automotive industry. The fake camera feels like it's trying to mislead people.
It could be but misleading has a few levels. One is misleading that it has a feature that it doesn't (like 100 HP vs 500 HP) and the other is putting something there that a person expects even though it's no longer necessary (like the close door button in an eleveator)
No brand-new first-time Tesla owner is going to freak out because there's a feature-delete panel somewhere in the vehicle. There's probably others already after-all, they are very standard in most vehicles.
So... who is this for?
If it looked so terrible to remove one camera, then redesign that component to look good again. After all, it's not like they're going back to the old design.
This would be more akin to your brand new laptop having a fake ethernet port... why?
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“tesla reuses old plastic molds for new car models” is a much less interesting title, though.
Except it's not just the mold. They put a fake realistic camera in where the placeholder is. If it was to "fill space in a generic mold" they could have used a plastic cover. Instead they chose a realistic looking mock camera. I wonder why.
For it to look better? Not everything has to be a generic plastic cover.
Knowing the Tesla owner community quite well, I suspect Tesla was hoping nobody would find out it’s a dummy and complain that the newer cars are inferior to the older ones (like they did with the radar and ultrasonic sensors)
Tesla never used LIDAR if I'm not mistaken?
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Cars do that pretty often. EVs for instance often have fake grilles for no reason.
Many cars have fake exhaust tips. I see them all the time. Search for "fake exhaust". It looks like most of them come from the factory.
My vehicle has a couple "dummy" things on the inside as well. Places for plugs and switches and things that are only on other models. Maybe it's something like that? It'll be an upgrade option or on a different model? It's probably much cheaper to make the housing thing to be used in a wider range of models.
When a car costs nearly $100k it better come with all the fucking upgrade options installed.
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Those are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them. What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunctional yet functional-looking piece.
The article says they did it because the camera needs to be on one side or the other depending on the drive side of the country. This must have been easier than building two different enclosures.