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Tesla Removes Disney+ App From Vehicles – Here’s How to Get It Back

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By Not a Tesla App Staff

Tesla is removing the Disney+ app from some vehicles

Tesla has removed Disney+ from its vehicles, a decision that appears to be closely tied to CEO Elon Musk’s ongoing feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger. This move comes as a response to Disney pulling advertising from Musk’s social media platform, X.

The feud between Musk and Disney escalated after Musk’s inflammatory comments at the New York Times DealBook Summit. When asked about advertisers leaving X, Musk sharply criticized those boycotting the platform, using harsh language and directly mentioning Bob Iger.

Tesla owners began noticing the removal of Disney+ from the Tesla Theater yesterday. It looks like Tesla is only removing Disney+ from vehicles where it hasn’t been used it recently, although the change is not going unnoticed and owners are understandably upset.

Tesla added Disney+ support to its vehicles in the summer of 2021 and then expanded support to Australia and Europe in the spring of 2022.

How to Get Disney+ Back

Thankfully, there is a simple way to get Disney+ back in Tesla Theater. Since Tesla is only hiding the app from owners who haven’t used it, you can easily get it to show up again by using Disney+ in the browser.

Simply navigate to DisneyPlus.com and you’ll notice that it goes full screen and the app gets re-added to Tesla Theater.

The removal of Disney+ has Tesla potentially overreaching by removing features over business deals that don’t directly involve Tesla or their customers. However, these kinds of situations are new and often occur in the cable industry when cable operators shut off channels when haggling with broadcasters such as CBS and Disney.

However, the move could backfire on Tesla. Critics argue that Musk’s vendettas should not influence the offerings of a public company. The decision to remove Disney+ is already been criticized as a petty and juvenile reaction.

As the saga continues, it remains to be seen how this clash between two titans of industry will evolve. For now, Tesla owners and Disney+ subscribers are caught in the crossfire of a corporate feud.

By Kevin Armstrong

High Fidelity Park Assist in the Holiday Update

Christmas came early for some Tesla owners thanks to the new High-fidelity Park Assist that was part of the Holiday Update. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Autopilot Software Director, took to X to show off Tesla’s latest technology, a complete overhaul of the parking experience, blending advanced 3D visualization with real-time environmental mapping.

First, the bad news. The new technology is initially available only to customers with Tesla models that do not have ultrasonic sensors. Elluswamy says models with USS will get the new park assist “eventually” – insert your two-week joke here.

Future

Any time more than one sensor is used to create an output it gets more complicated because the output from each sensor won’t match exactly. Ultrasonic sensors are extremely good at what they do and produce extremely accurate output of distances where they’re aimed, but they can also miss things that are lower to the ground or higher up, things that Tesla Vision may be able to see.

It’s not clear whether Tesla will fuse the two sensor outputs into one or whether they’re planning on disabling USS completely when an improved version gets rolled out to vehicles with USS.

Requirements

The requirements for this new feature are still up in the air as well. All the vehicles that have received the new park assist have Tesla’s latest Ryzen-based infotainment CPU (MCU 3), however, we don’t know whether that will be required for these new visualizations.

Enhanced 3D Surroundings Reconstruction

Elluswamy’s posts revealed that the new High-fidelity Park Assist is replacing the older 2D obstacle detection system with a sophisticated 3D reconstruction of the Tesla’s surroundings. This breakthrough is an extension of Tesla’s Occupancy Network, now boasting much higher resolution, thereby aiding drivers in navigating tight parking spots with unprecedented precision. The engineer posted: “In addition to obstacles, we also predict painted lines on the ground, also in 3D. Together, these help perform the full parking maneuver just by looking at this one screen.”

First Release and Upcoming Enhancements

Acknowledging that this is the initial version, Elluswamy teased future updates to the technology. These updates will likely include improved geometric consistency with the cameras and enhanced tracking of occluded obstacles. Even in its emergent stage, this technology significantly improves upon previous parking assistance systems. He stated: “This is the v1 release of this technology, and will have follow up releases that have even better geometric consistency with the cameras, better persistence of occluded obstacles, etc.”

The visualizations provided by this updated Park Assist system are impressively accurate. The 3D models, which change color based on proximity to the vehicle, offer a new level of awareness and interaction for drivers. This system, which uses vision technology to render 3D models in a way typically associated with LiDAR, is a significant step forward in Tesla’s software development.

By Not a Tesla App Staff

Tesla's new High Fidelity Park Assist feature in the holiday update

Tesla’s 2023 Holiday Update is rolling out to happy customers around the world, and it includes everything we’ve heard about, from the NHTSA-related changes to FSD Beta 11.4.9, High Fidelity Park Assist, Custom Lock Sounds, and more.

However, the most exciting feature in the update is undoubtedly Tesla’s updated Park Assist feature with new visualizations. 

This feature provides a 3D reconstruction of the vehicle’s surroundings while parking, akin to a 360-degree camera, but with 3D models that are built in real-time.

The system is leveraging Tesla Vision to create the surrounding environment, such as cars, pillars, bikes and other nearby objects. It certainly may not recognize what all the objects are, but it can define its outlines and build a 3D model.

Each 3D model is gray, but changes color the closer the vehicle gets to the object. The objects go from gray to yellow, to orange, and then finally red.

This is the first time we’re seeing Tesla render 3D models using vision in a manner that LiDAR would be used.

Since these are actual 3D models, you can even pan and rotate the on-screen models to view them from various angles.

Requirements

Many vehicles are receiving the new Park Assist, however, it’s not everyone. Vehicles running hardware 3 and hardware 4.0 are both receiving it, which is good news, but there are some limitations. It’s not particularly clear yet, but it appears that the feature may be limited to Ryzen infotainment units, or it may be rolling out to vehicles without ultrasonic sensors (USS) first.

If it’s the latter, then there’s no doubt that Tesla will expand this to vehicles with USS at some point in the future.

Future Visualizations

The visualizations provided by Park Assist are surprisingly good and accurate. They appear to be much more accurate than Park Assist has been in the past for vehicles without USS. For those owners, this will be a great enhancement that is not only exciting but useful when parking or getting around tight corners.

From the early videos and images we’ve seen, the visualizations look fantastic. We may be looking at upcoming FSD Beta visualizations in this new holiday feature.

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