kreshi
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A couple of things. This is just my 2 cents. Please do not take this as an insult or attack. It's not meant to be anything like that.Sadly all these problems and long delay times show how poor the Porsche system design and upgrade capabilities are. I'm a realtime embedded software engineer, this upgrade is the type of upgrade many systems have been using for 40 years. For the dealer and user this could be as easy as upgrading your iPhone I don't own a Tesla, but this is probably what they do.
The system should be upgraded OTA (Over The Air) using WiFi! The release packages and configuration parameters should be stored on Porsche cloud servers. It should all be automatic, using the VIN to configure the upgrade modules, new and old parameters which can also be checked against exsting parameters so things the user had configured won't be changed unless it is required for new features or changes. It can be locked in many ways by Porsche to only allow certain upgrades at dealers if they want. You could even allow users to pre-configure all new features via the app before an upgrade occurs. We should also have an app to configure everything about our cars. I worry that Porsche management is not tech savy enough to listen to modern software architects. After all they still are using Turbo and Turbo S as marketing monikers.
I love my 4S, don't love the app, car GUI, upgrade problems, manual (not nearly enough information) etc... Yes this is a new model and I did expect some teething problems. I hope they are able to change their car design/build paradigm to a software centric one away from iron centric.
Upgrade problems: there have been reports in here of some problems, but this is nowhere near a huge issue with the update and recalls left and right. I also get the feeling that it might be dealer related. This is a new process for them and some dealers often probably do not know how to handle obstacles during the update. We have already seen plenty of dealer that do not know of basic functions the Taycan has, so them having little knowledge of the update process wouldn't be a far fetch. Again, I am very confident the vast majority got their cars back with the update with no extreme issues.
OTA process: this has been talked about in here. The points you make are just basic assumptions. Some have mentioned that the way the modules are connected and communicate, at the current way the Taycan is built, that OTA either would not allow an update or the chance of bricking the car would be too high. Even with WiFi the connection from Internet to Car to Porsche Servers is still very unstable. All I want to say is that it is much more complicated and difficult as you mention in your post.
Turbo and Turbo S: If you have been following or owning Porsche, you should know better about this. Carrera's with no turo batch have been run with turbos for a while now. It stopped meaning literal turbos a while ago and just adapted to showing the "level" of the car, Turbo S being the top of the range of each model.
App: is fine to me. I want to spend time in the car and not outside of it playing with an app.
Car GUI: also fine to me. It does what it needs and is no 50 inch TV screen where you have to search for simple tasks for 15mins.
In general I get the feeling that people who mostly are unhappy with lots of things in the Taycan owner base are coming from non driving/car enthusiastic backgrounds. Yes software with Porsche/VW is not state of the art. It is still very early and that is what you get when buying into something very new, especially with software. Mechanically/driving it is state of the art by a mile and I rather having that than any fancy software option there is.
Safe drive everyone.
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