Porsche just needs to give up on any advanced software features

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They’re not all perfect, Waze and Google Maps have tried to steer me in different directions but it’s rare when it happens.

My experience with Porsche software is that it's sensitive to lack of connectivity. Germany must be very well covered in cell towers (dense population I guess) so it never occurred to Porsche engineers that there may exist parts of the world where cellular coverage is not continuous, therefore software should handle it gracefully. Navigation as well as cloud sync both exhibit undefined behavior when driving through spotty coverage areas. For example after driving through such areas cloud thinks car is elsewhere or in Privacy mode for a few hours (even though it is back on the grid since app gets notifications from the car about things like climate control complete). Navigation gets even more screwed up, not only does lose where it is, but even when it does know its position, it will do odd things like explicitly direct me to take turns away from the destination (my guess is it is missing some map tiles, assumes they are a black hole, i.e. you cannot drive through them, so it detours me via a convenient route around the globe?). Then once it's completely lost, it gives random turn directions into roads which do not exist, heck, even its own map doesn't think those exist as I've seen the blue line drawn over parts of the map where clearly there is no road. One one trip long ago (when I still used Porsche nav) it once almost got be stranded in the middle of the night by routing me through some dirt road in some state park where I found myself surrounded by deer, road nowhere near wide enough to turn around and starting to get narrower (started with pavement, then gravel, then only dirt road) - not fun around midnight in the dark. After utilizing CT's off road capabilities to turn around, once I got out of the forest, Porsche nav rerouted just fine with highways without any specific prompting from me, it just did it once got cellular coverage I presume.

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[EXOTIC3]

Software overall rivals only LUCID as a race to the bottom/ worst in my experiences with many EV’s.

 

[Dl1]

I do not use any sort of departure planning in my Taycan. I just plug in the cable at the correct time so it goes to the charge i need at the time i depart or just let it sit at high charge for say 6-12 hours. The only thing I change is the % charge level, usually at 85%.

In fact this is how Tesla actually works - just a % charge level you can set. Their stuff is simpler, so less bugs. Just like their car, less features and capabilities, so less stuff to break.

So I just stick to the most simple use cases - Taycan's software team are making more features they can handle. They really should stop doing that.

 

[Dl1]

To add on Tesla, their Model S Plaid is trying to do more than what their chassis can handle as a sports sedan. Just like Taycan's software feature set is bigger than what their software team can handle.

I chose to have more car than more tech. I think we all made this choice. Not that I stop ranting that Taycan software generally sucks though.

 

[snstevens]

My experience with Porsche software is that it's sensitive to lack of connectivity. Germany must be very well covered in cell towers (dense population I guess) so it never occurred to Porsche engineers that there may exist parts of the world where cellular coverage is not continuous, therefore software should handle it gracefully. Navigation as well as cloud sync both exhibit undefined behavior when driving through spotty coverage areas. For example after driving through such areas cloud thinks car is elsewhere or in Privacy mode for a few hours (even though it is back on the grid since app gets notifications from the car about things like climate control complete). Navigation gets even more screwed up, not only does it not know where it is, even when it does know it will do odd things like explicitly direct me to take turns away from the destination (my guess is it is missing some map tiles, assumes they are a black hole, i.e. you cannot drive through them, so it detours be via a convenient route around the globe?). Then once it's completely lost, it gives random turn directions into roads which do not exist, heck, even its own map doesn't think those exist as I've seen the blue line drawn over parts of the map where clearly there is no road. One one trip long ago (when I still used Porsche nav) it once almost got be stranded in the middle of the night by routing me through some dirt road in some state park where I found myself surrounded by deer, road nowhere near wide enough to turn around and starting to get narrower (started with pavement, then gravel, then only dirt road) - not fun around midnight in the dark. After utilizing CT's off road capabilities to turn around, once I got out of the forest, Porsche nav rerouted just fine with highways without any specific prompting from me, it just did it once got cellular coverage I presume.

Yep, I've had the "strange directions out of nowhere" happen to me too when using Porsche navigation. I also believe that cellular connectivity might be to blame.

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