The road, narrated.
Spoken turns, clearer routes, plate readers and feedback from the car. Sync your Tesla’s destination in one tap, see police lights on the road, and get traffic reports that tell the truth. All of today’s changes, in one place. Free Premium runs to 30 September.
Navigation
AlphaConfetti when you arrive
A short confetti burst marks the end of your drive. Arrival confetti is on by default for Premium users. Turn it off in Settings → Advanced; an existing Off choice stays off. It plays once per trip and respects reduced motion.
A marker where the route ends
The route used to simply stop — no dot, no flag, nothing to say “this is it”. The last point of every route is now marked with a quiet disc on the road, in the route’s own colour, so you can see where you are going before you get there. Nothing to turn on.
Arrows on the route, and one over the next turn
The ribbon now carries direction arrows, and a single manoeuvre arrow with a head sits over the next junction, inside the ribbon, so a glance says which way before the card does. The turn card’s bar fills toward the manoeuvre and its distance counts down to 100 m, then 10 m, then Now.
The route shows where it is slow
Each stretch of the route is coloured by the traffic level reported on it, so a red kilometre ahead is visible on the map rather than only in the ETA.
A parked car reads as parked
On an older screen the car reports no speed, so the app has to work it out from position, and GPS noise on a parked car used to read as a steady walking pace — enough to walk the puck off the car while you waited at the kerb. Stopped now means stopped, and a slow U-turn is no longer mistaken for parking.
Day and night follow the car, live
When the car switches theme, the map switches with it, mid-drive, in every view. It used to reload the page, which dropped the route.
A steadier position, through the gaps
The car moves smoothly between GPS readings, and the trip survives a reload. In a tunnel, navigation estimates progress only when there is evidence that you are still moving. A parked car with a noisy fix no longer gets an imaginary journey.
Rerouting waits for a real departure
A position that briefly jumps across the street is no longer enough to abandon your route. Off-course checks take confidence into account, and route suggestions give the current journey room before interrupting it. Your heading also survives the session, and the first fix points the map the right way instead of easing around from north.
Tesla destination sync
Your Tesla’s destination, one tap away
Sync from car now sits beside Navigate, before you even open search. Set a destination in Tesla’s navigation and bring it into codriver when you are ready. If the destination becomes available after the browser starts, you can try again without reloading.
Each screen remembers its own car
Have more than one Tesla? Choose the source for this screen with the car picker, or manage it from Account. Two cars with identical browsers stay separate, and a missing destination never silently sends you to the other car’s route.
When sync cannot finish, it tells you why
No destination, sleeping car, expired connection or a short cooldown: Sync explains what happened and what you can do next. Connecting or reconnecting hands off to your phone by QR. It never wakes your car, and a route you choose yourself always wins over a sync arriving late.
Voice guidance
One voice, from the car’s speakers
Every announcement is stitched from recorded clips in one voice — “In 400 metres, turn left. Then, turn right.” — with a call at 100 m and one at the turn. The browser’s built-in speech is off everywhere: the car has no voices installed, and on a desktop it spoke in whatever voice the laptop had, which made every test sound unlike the car.
Plate readers
Licence-plate readers on the map
Automated plate readers surveyed by the DeFlock project into OpenStreetMap now draw as pins, each with the beam of road it watches, in the direction it faces. Settings ▸ Plate readers, on every plan. They warn ahead of travel the way a speed camera does. Coverage is only as good as the survey — a reader on the wrong road is a data problem, so vote it down and it fades.
Report from the car
Tell us from the driver’s seat
Report ▸ Feedback sends us a note, or a 15-second voice recording, with a picture of the screen as it was and the last few things the app did. You see exactly what is in the report before it goes — if it is too private to show you, it is too private to send. Every report lands on your account page with a status, and voice reports gain a transcript within the hour.
Settings
Settings opens on you
The panel now starts with your account — name, plan, the car that is linked, a link to manage it — and asks one question per decision after that. Which sources the app fetches follows from which alerts you keep: hide a category and its feed stops being requested too. Traffic reports now notify ahead by default; any alert preferences you already saved stay yours.
One card per event
The card that announces a police report or a hazard is where you confirm or dispute it. It follows the pin’s distance as you drive and stays until you vote, dismiss it, or pass the pin. The separate “still there?” prompt is gone, so a category you hid is never asked about.
Every road event gets its own level
For each category, choose Hidden, Pin, Notify or Alert. A quiet map, an on-screen heads-up or a warning with sound: you decide which events deserve which treatment. A minimum gap between announcement cards keeps a busy road from becoming a pile of interruptions.
The map and your car
Buildings leave room for your position
Tall buildings now open a window around the car so they do not swallow your position in Cityscape. The car sits lower in the view, leaving more room for the road ahead.
Sharper car art, lighter to load
The cars in the garage, simulator and driving app use flat-colour surfaces with the details that make each model recognisable. The Cybertruck loads correctly again, and updated model files get fresh addresses so an old cached render does not stick around.
Website
The homepage is the car
On a desktop that can run it, the screen in the bezel is a live Tesla touchscreen simulator running the real app on a scripted drive through Paris, in your theme. Phones and smaller screens get a recording of that same drive.
Traffic and alerts
A pin's age is the report's age
Alerts carry the time they were reported. Where there is no such time, the card shows when the pin was last confirmed. It never again shows the day it first landed in our database, which is what made a fresh jam read as a fortnight old.
Traffic notifies ahead again
Now that a traffic pin is a report somebody actually filed, Traffic gives you one card ahead, without a sound. This is the default for new installs and drivers who have not saved alert preferences. If you already chose your levels, nothing changes them.
Every alert says what it is
A pothole card used to say “Other hazard”. Now each kind of report has its own words on the card, in the popup and in the announcement — Pothole reported, Flooded road, Vehicle stopped on the shoulder, Left lane closed. Heavy rain is no longer filed as a flood, and a car stopped in a live lane is no longer filed as one on the shoulder. Animals, roadkill and weather events also get their own names. Personal assistance requests are no longer drawn as road hazards.
And says it out loud
At the Alert level a card is now spoken: “Police reported, 200 metres.” Turn-by-turn guidance always wins — an alert waits its turn, and stays quiet when your next manoeuvre is close.
Flash and sound, per category
Police, emergency vehicles, mobile radar, speed cameras, red-light cameras and plate readers each get a Flash + sound choice. Police starts enabled; the other categories are opt-in.
Police lights stay on the road
Red and blue light sweeps sit around the police pin on the tarmac and brighten when the ahead alert fires. An edge glow replaces the full-screen wash, keeping the map visible. Alert distances also count down in stable steps and stay gone once you pass within 10 metres.
Your reports get the same detail
Driver-submitted pins gain the same event names, street context, age, voting and ahead-of-travel announcements as relayed reports. A report from another codriver driver should be just as useful on the map.
The demo gets straight to the action
The simulated car starts on the route, facing the right way, and encounters scripted road events in the first seconds. An accident and a police report demonstrate the real alert cards without anyone submitting a live road report.
Retired pins are cleared out
Expired events are removed a week after they retire, together with their history, instead of staying in the database forever.
The beta ends 30 September
Free Premium runs to 30 September
Premium · monthly comes back on 1 October. Every account on the Beta perk returns to the Free tier that day and keeps every base feature — live alerts, navigation, cameras, plate readers, reports. Thank you for driving it in.
At the end of beta: the OG badge
Planned for the end of beta: a unique profile badge for accounts created during beta with a car linked. It will say you were here first, and will not expire.
Invite friends, earn Premium
The invite link on your account page keeps working after the beta, and it is how anyone earns Premium: +1 month for every 5 friends who sign up via your link and pair a Tesla · +1 month when a referred friend subscribes to Premium · monthly · +2 months when a referred friend subscribes to Premium · yearly · Rewards stack — during beta there’s no cap. Credit applies at your next renewal once paid billing ships.