Tesla's software engineering head to step down, Bloomberg News reports

[u/malbecman]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-software-engineering-head-step-down-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-04-04/

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548]

They still have software engineers?  No one seems to be working on the car outside of self driving...

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 → u/[deleted]]

That are all "minor fixes".  Cut me some slack, I was being a jackass ;)

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 → u/[deleted]]

I have actually talked to a software dev there.  He said his role changed nearly every week and they don't have that many devs to begin with.  One of the reasons why the voice commands haven't been improved in 9+ months

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 → u/[deleted]]

Do you know how to control the defogger?  It hasn't worked for 3 years

It seems like one of those voice control things as I'd be turning it on or off while driving and it's hidden behind several swipes.

[u/Jmauld → u/Zealousideal-Ant9548]

Press button. Say: “Defog the windshield”

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 → u/Jmauld]

And to turn it off?

[u/Jmauld → u/Zealousideal-Ant9548]

“Defog off”.

Does this really not work for you?

[u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 → u/Jmauld]

There's at least half a dozen ways of asking the car to turn the defogger on and off.  None of the one's I've tried have worked so I wanted to get the right set

[u/couldbemage → u/Zealousideal-Ant9548]

They've updated the voice commands already this year.

I would not say it's an improvement, but they have certainly changed them.

Changed to more natural speech, but actually less functional.