Grok Just Became Your Car's Assistant
Tesla is handing over more control to Grok, and it's a bigger deal than it sounds. You can now ask it to make phone calls, search and play music, adjust the climate, or even pop open the glovebox — all without touching the screen. Previous voice assistants in cars have always felt half-baked, mostly good for basic commands and little else. This update pushes Grok closer to something you'd actually rely on daily, not just show off to passengers.
Self-Driving Stats Now Live in Your Pocket
Owners running FSD can finally check and share their self-driving stats straight from the mobile app. Before this, that data lived buried in the car's screen, which meant nobody bothered looking at it. Now it's one tap away, which matters for the growing community of owners who track disengagements, miles driven, and improvements over time. Expect a lot more of these stats showing up on social media.
Caraoke Gets Competitive
Caraoke isn't new, but scoring is. While parked, the car now grades your singing and saves your best runs to your Tesla profile. It's a small feature, sure, but it's the kind of thing that turns a mundane wait — charging, picking up kids, whatever — into something people actually look forward to.
Navigation That Learns Your Life
Automatic Navigation used to just handle Home, Work, and calendar events. Now it picks up on your actual routine — suggesting a school drop-off on the way to the office, or a gym stop on the way home. Paired with Preferred Routes, which favors roads you've actually driven before over what the algorithm thinks is fastest, this feels less like a nav system and more like it's paying attention to how you actually live.
More Control From the App
Two small but genuinely useful additions: you can now set your Arrival Energy target from your phone instead of digging through the car's menu, and you can upload a custom wrap design straight from the mobile app instead of fiddling with a USB drive. Tesla even published instructions on GitHub for building your own wrap design, which is a nice nod to the tinkerer crowd.
A Smarter Rear Screen for Families
The rear display now locks down control to the front row, meaning kids can still watch their shows but can't mess with settings or apps from the back seat. Anyone who's driven with kids fighting over the rear screen will appreciate this one immediately.
The Smaller Stuff That Adds Up
A handful of quieter improvements round out the release: searching for Superchargers by name, adding Apple Music tracks to your queue right from search or an artist's page, adjustable zoom for the self-driving visualization, and camera/microphone support in the browser. None of these are headline features on their own, but together they smooth out a lot of the small annoyances owners have been asking Tesla to fix.
