New update for Hobbes has subtly made a huge improvement on my personal daily usage example.

Before the update, in slow stop and go traffic, like a school pick up:

Moving at 20MPH, you take your foot off the accelerator and the regenerative braking starts slowing you down but you still roll.

You move your foot to the brake and tap it to stop the car, and then you press it a little bit more to put it in “Hold Mode” which means it’ll stay in that stop till you press the Go pedal again.

No rolling back or forward while on an incline – this is a great feature, but it could get better.

There are a hundred of these events each trip while queuing to transport my kid to and from school, which in my day was handled by something called: A Bus.

Now, new and improved, you just take your foot off the accelerator, the car inches forward a bit and comes to a gentle stop by itself and then puts the car right into hold mode. My foot stays over the “accelerator pedal” and that minor change is a GIGANTIC mood changer.

So nice.

This is the kind of little tiny improvements that are made possible when the car is fly-by-wire. Any little thing you can think of that might help – they can add that after it leaves the factory and that makes it way better than an old ICE car.