It is great to see and hear VW leaderships commitment to OTA and Autonomous Driving capabilities. No doubt they have embedded the base line technology to make it happen. VW states they will have OTA updates every 12 weeks to start. Hope they can improve drivetrain and battery gateway to eek out more range!
If it is done like other vehicles it would happen overnight while you charge.
In theory that's what Windoze does. But it always seems to be updating at rather inconvenient times.
On the Tesla, once the software is downloaded you can tell it what time you want to install or select to install right away. You can also request the install through the app (just make sure the wife isn't out with the car).
I totally agree. There is so much software on this car to control subsystems, I can't believe that everything is dialed in already. Apart from the inevitable bugfixes, I really hope they will tweak control parameters to make everything work better, esp. range. I am thinking that optimizing across multiple subsystems presents extra room for improvement. That's how it is with my company's software, and all other software I have looked at closely enough.
I think your hopes are spot on of what will eventually happen. The size battery this comes with technically should move it more miles. They have some room to work. Even Tesla does this here and there.
