Tesla’s car-sharing feature has been in the works for several years. In April 2020, the company announced the “Vehicle Access” feature, which allows primary vehicle owners to add drivers and gain access to the vehicle. The car sharing feature, which started to be developed rapidly after the regular production of Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, continues to be improved.
Used by a Twitter account that shares about Tesla’s updates, the company’s soon-to-be-updated smartphone application; It has been suggested that it can add new features to this system that enables vehicle sharing between drivers.
Vehicle Access Feature Can Be Updated
According to Tesla’s statement, its feature called ‘Car Access’, which makes it easy for Tesla owners to share their vehicles, allows adding and removing access permissions for an additional driver. Any driver added to the account can actively use all the features available in the Tesla app, such as “locking and unlocking the vehicle”, except for roadside assistance or purchasing various Tesla upgrades. The Twitter account “Tesla_App_iOS”, which announced its new software by following the updates in Tesla’s Smartphone application, led to the emergence of rumors that more car sharing features could be added to the application.
Here are the features included in the update:
“Version 4.1 3.1 has been released and here’s what we found:
-Sharing your Tesla car with others
-Entity for car sharing
-Ridesharing related endpoints
This update is about that, if we find anything else we’ll add it to this thread! Goodnight!”
No statement was made by Elon Musk or Tesla officials.
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