My wife and I just completed an 11 day 1,739 mile Arizona road trip from San Diego to Prescott, Show Low (White Mountains), Petrified Forest/Painted Desert, Monument Valley (did not drive into the park because of the rutted dirt roads), Globe and back to home yesterday in my 23 AT. I gave the new update a workout. FYI I have DDPro, SSPro and use CarPlay. In-car apps used included, Nav, TuneIn, and Spotify. Here are my thoughts:
First, the positives:
- The car was a total joy to drive and Handsfree DA/Drive Assist worked great on both the interstate and mountain highways, including some rain and fog in the San Diego mountains last night. It seemed much better than a similar trip in July.
- Avg efficiency 3.99. Best efficiency 6.21 (95 miles downhill −3,245 ft).
- Had surround sound on ALL of the speakers. It is great. I can't believe it took them this long to get it to work.
- It was pretty easy to toggle in and out of CarPlay as needed. The audio and ABRP continued to work in the background with no glitches.
- No problems with any of the audio apps except when losing cell service in the desert and mountains.
Not so good:
- The nav app is so bad for routing multi-stop trips. I still have not figured out how best to send a destination from the phone app and find it when you get in the car. I counted on ABRP on CarPlay for all of my trip planning and live directions. The ending SOC was conservative, which I like.
- The volume wheels failed to control Apple Music volume a couple of times. When you turned the wheel it would jump up very loud and then jump all over the place when you tried to adjust it. It was very weird. I can't deliberately replicate it, as it was pretty random.
- The most frustrating was the Auto wiper controls. They do not start as soon as you need them. I ended up doing a manual wipe when it was misted over. I didn't use the wipers much before the new update so I don't know if this is bug or not.
- The auto high beam dimming feature failed me last night. It is turned on in settings, but when you push the high beams on with the turn signal lever the "High Beam Assist Enabled" icon did not appear and they did not auto dim during traffic. It had worked previously on this trip.
- The new Pilot Panel features are a pain. Why do you need to push the button on the bottom right to see more than 5 you can program? I found myself using more than you can program throughout the trip. You should be able to access all of those features that you can access from the bottom of screen from the main screen. I concur with the consensus here about the pull-down screen. My wife is livid about moving the Glovebox Open off the main screen.
I am happy that I upgraded the CCC. It seems to me the issues mentioned can be fixed in the next update.
