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Field notes / changelog

What shipped.

New on your screen. Better on the road.
Explore the changes, one feature at a time.
Latest release

You can hear codriver over your music

Directions and alerts got lost under the music. It was the complaint we heard most, and this release is the fix: louder voices, an automatic pause of the car’s music, and two new voices. Also: your Tesla’s route turns purple, and Atlante’s chargers join the map in Europe.

Major update

Sound, rebuilt

Three changes, so every direction and every alert comes through.

  1. Louder voices

    Every direction and every spoken alert is now as loud as it can be without distorting, a clear step up from before. The police siren and the warning beep came up with them.

  2. Your music pauses while codriver speaks

    Tap the sound button beside the turn card, or the one beside Report for alerts, until it shows a small pause badge. The car’s music then stops for each direction or alert and comes back on its own. Each tap says its mode out loud: over the music, pausing the music, off.

  3. New voices, male or female

    Smoother and far less robotic, in English and French. Pick Male or Female in Settings ▸ Driving ▸ Voice.

Sound

Three positions on each sound button

Directions have their button beside the turn card, alerts theirs beside Report. Each goes over the music (the default), pausing the music, then off. The pause is chosen per button, so alerts can pause your music while directions play over it, or the other way round.

Voice guidance is on by default

If you never changed it, you now hear turn-by-turn directions, over your music. The button beside the turn card turns it off.

Navigation

Your Tesla’s route in purple

When codriver follows the route set in your Tesla’s own navigation (a Premium feature; the trip pill reads “Tesla route”), the road ahead is now purple and the road you have already driven stays grey. At night both used to be near-white, beside the dark map’s pale main roads, and a member told us they could not tell where they had been from where they were going. The destination disc and the free-flowing stretches of the traffic ribbon turn purple with it. Routes codriver plans itself stay blue.

The Plateau, Montréal Open video ↗

Chargers

Atlante chargers in Europe

Atlante’s chargers, in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, now appear on the charger map. Choose Atlante under Networks in the Chargers sheet. Free members can add one network besides Tesla; Premium shows them all.

An Atlante charging station as a lime pin on the map at Mandelieu-la-Napoule, and a second one open, showing its name, its power and its connector.
Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
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An Atlante charging station as a lime pin on the map at Mandelieu-la-Napoule, and a second one open, showing its name, its power and its connector.

Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France

The road so far

Earlier releases

Your photo on your account, and toll tags in Navigation

Your photo on your account, and toll tags in Navigation

Put your own photo on your account. In North America, tell codriver about your E-ZPass or Texas toll tag, and routes can take the express lanes that need one. The miniature world gets its own switch on the map, and forests fill with trees.

Your account

Your photo instead of your initials

Tap your avatar at codriver.io/account to add a photo: your car, your face, anything you like. Pick it on your phone, then drag and pinch it into the frame, the same rounded square you will see on your account and in Settings in your car. We keep a 512-pixel copy, without the photo’s location or camera details. Remove it any time to go back to your initials.

The photo step on a phone: a picture of a car placed inside a rounded-square frame, with a zoom slider, Cancel and Save photo.
Your account, on your phone
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The photo step on a phone: a picture of a car placed inside a rounded-square frame, with a zoom slider, Cancel and Save photo.

Your account, on your phone

Navigation

Toll tags open the express lanes

In North America, Settings ▸ Navigation ▸ Toll tags lists E-ZPass, TxTag and EZ TAG. Switch on the one in your car and routes can take the express lanes that require it, like the I-495 and I-66 Express Lanes in Virginia or the Katy Tollway in Houston. Only tags that change your routes are listed: express lanes that bill by plate are used either way. A tag is never assumed, so without one you stay off lanes that would send you a violation notice. Avoid ▸ Toll roads still keeps you off toll roads altogether.

The Navigation sheet with the region set to Auto, North America, and a list of toll tags where E-ZPass is switched on and TxTag and EZ TAG are off.
Settings ▸ Navigation, in Virginia
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The Navigation sheet with the region set to Auto, North America, and a list of toll tags where E-ZPass is switched on and TxTag and EZ TAG are off.

Settings ▸ Navigation, in Virginia

Map

The miniature world, one tap away

The miniature world now has its own switch on the map, next to 3D, buildings and the full 3D world, so you can turn it on and off as you drive. It moved there from Settings. On the same rail, buildings are now a cube and the miniature world two small houses. It comes with Premium, and MCU2 cars start with it off.

Downtown Montréal Open video ↗

Forests full of trees

In Cityscape, woods and forests now fill with trees wherever OpenStreetMap maps none, more sparsely in scrub, so a country road no longer crosses bare ground. Mapped trees stay exactly as they are. No tree is planted in a lake, on a road or close enough for its crown to reach your lane.

Newfound Gap Road, Great Smoky Mountains · miniature world on Open video ↗
Tap the incident count for the list

Tap the incident count for the list

The incident count at the top right opens the incidents it counts, nearest first. Tap one to see it on the map.

Alerts

The incident count opens a list

Tap “Live · N incidents” at the top right for the incidents it counts, nearest first: what each one is, its street, how long ago it was reported, how far it is and which way. While you navigate, the incidents ahead on your route come first, measured along the route. Tap one to see it on the map with its Still here and Gone buttons; Recenter brings the map back to your car. Data sources moved to the panel’s second tab.

Downtown Los Angeles: the list, then a police report on US-101. Open video ↗
Two warnings per camera, and End in one tap

Two warnings per camera, and End in one tap

A fixed camera is announced about 10 seconds out and again about 3 seconds out, at your speed. Ending a trip is one tap from the small card, with Undo, and a trip from your Tesla that you ended stays ended.

Alerts

Two warnings per fixed camera

A fixed speed or red-light camera used to get one sentence, up to 2 km out on a motorway. Now it is announced about 10 seconds before you reach it at your speed, with a card that counts down, then again about 3 seconds before: a short double tone, a pulse of the card and the edge flash. The first warning no longer waits for a nearby turn.

Police and mobile cameras, before the speed gun

A speed gun measures from a distance, up to about 1.2 km for the long-range lasers. On a fast road, a police or mobile-camera report is now announced about 40 seconds ahead at your speed (1.5 km at 130 km/h, 1 km at 90), then again at 600 m with the flash, on the same card. Below 72 km/h nothing changes: 600 m is already more than 30 seconds away.

One camera, one alert

A police report within 200 m of a fixed camera you are about to be warned about now rides on the camera’s alert. The card says “Police reported here too”, and the report stays on the map.

Flash + sound out of the box

On for police and every camera. Plate readers stay on the map, silent, unless you turn them up.

Sound before your first tap

Alert sounds used to start only after a first touch, so a trip sent from your Tesla had silent alerts. They are ready from the start. If the browser still holds sound back, the alert-sounds button says so and one tap turns it on.

What a camera checks

Tap a fixed camera: the limit, which way it checks, whether it is permanent, mobile or temporary, part-time hours, the model, the operator and when it was last surveyed. Only what OpenStreetMap records is shown.

Navigation

End in one tap

The small trip card has its own End button. The full card adds New destination, which ends the trip and opens search. Undo brings the same trip back for 8 seconds, progress and chosen route included.

A Tesla trip you ended stays ended

codriver can’t clear your car’s navigation, so a trip your Tesla sent came back on the next start. For 4 hours it now stays ended, with a Follow button if you want it after all. Sync from car always takes it.

The map opens with a new load screen

The map opens with a new load screen

A new load screen builds the map in front of you, and it lifts only when the map around you is ready. Premium gets Build-up in 3D, and the Free plan gets a 2D reveal.

Map

Build-up, with Premium

The map draws itself from your car outward: a grid, then the real streets and buildings in wire, then one blue sweep that turns them into the finished map. In the miniature world that sweep is the reveal, so nothing changes after the screen lifts.

Build-up in the miniature world, Nuns’ Island, Montréal. Open video ↗

A 2D reveal, on the Free plan

A blue ring runs out from your car and uncovers the flat map, then the view comes down to your street. It’s the same 2D map you drive with.

The 2D reveal, downtown Montréal. Open video ↗

A lighter start for your car

The old screen ran a second 3D scene while the map loaded, the moment your car’s browser is most likely to crash. The new screens draw inside the map itself. The nearby map stays in the browser for up to a week, so starting again from the same place can be quicker, and it’s cleared when you sign out. Cars before MCU3 keep the screen they have today.

Routes stay on the motorway in Switzerland and Austria

Routes stay on the motorway in Switzerland and Austria

Routes no longer leave vignette motorways in nine European countries. A new Navigation panel holds the roads you avoid, your vignettes, your lane passes and your zone permits, sorted by market.

Navigation

Alpha

Routes stay on vignette motorways

In Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova, every motorway that needs a vignette was off limits, because we never told the router you had one. A trip from Bern to the Vosges took an hour longer than it should. Routes now assume you hold each vignette. Buying it is still up to you.

One question, the first time a trip needs a vignette

The first trip that relies on a vignette asks whether you have it, and shows how much longer the trip is without it. Yes is saved to your account and we stop asking. No recalculates the same destination without those motorways. Your route never waits for the answer.

The route picker beside a card asking whether the driver has a Swiss motorway vignette, with buttons to confirm it or recalculate without it.
Asked once, beside the route picker.
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The route picker beside a card asking whether the driver has a Swiss motorway vignette, with buttons to confirm it or recalculate without it.

Asked once, beside the route picker.

A Navigation panel, sorted by market

Settings ▸ Navigation now opens its own panel, like Alerts and Chargers. Tolls, ferries, motorways, difficult intersections and unpaved roads come first, then Car route. Then pick a market, or let the GPS pick one: Europe lists the vignettes and the zones by country, North America the EV lane passes of Québec, Ontario and British Columbia, and the rest of the world Israel's Fast Lane. Your choices follow your account.

The Navigation panel with its market tiles above the list of motorway vignettes, each country marked I have it or I don't.
Vignettes by country, under the market.
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The Navigation panel with its market tiles above the list of motorway vignettes, each country marked I have it or I don't.

Vignettes by country, under the market.

A warning before a restricted zone

When a route enters a restricted or low-emission zone, a notice asks you to check your sticker or permit, once per destination. You can switch it off. Add the permits you hold to the panel, from Italian ZTLs to low-emission stickers, by searching or by country.

Fewer crashes when a server stops answering

Fewer crashes when a server stops answering

A server that stops answering no longer fills your car's memory, long routes no longer slow the map, and MCU2 does less work for the same picture. Lane details now come with Premium.

Premium

Lane details come with Premium

Lanes, painted lines, turn arrows and crosswalks as OpenStreetMap maps them, built on our own servers, now come with Premium, and with this week's free Premium. They appear as you zoom in, in every view, with bridges raised onto their pillars. Countries that drive on the left get none for now: there the lanes would sit on the wrong sides. MCU2 cars start with them off; Settings ▸ Advanced ▸ Lane details switches them on.

Try the miniature world on codriver.io

On supported desktops, the live demo on our homepage now drives through the miniature world, so you can see it before you sign in. Until 1 November, a switch above it dresses the city for Halloween.

Open the demo

Reliability

Fewer crashes when a server stops answering

When a server the map relies on stopped answering, every failed request kept a slice of the car's memory for minutes, until the car closed the browser for using too much. That caused most of the crashes between 7 and 27 October. Failed requests now give that memory back at once, and the map stops asking a server that is down until it answers again.

Performance

Long routes no longer slow the map

Checking for a faster route compared your whole remaining route at every GPS position. On a long trip that was most of the browser's work, and a 480 km route could freeze the map. It now makes that comparison once every two minutes.

No more pauses for landmarks you cannot see

When a new piece of map arrived, every 3D landmark near it cut its shape out of it at once, even landmarks that were not showing, which could pause the map for up to a second in Cityscape. A landmark now does that work when it starts to appear, a few milliseconds at a time.

MCU2 does less for the same picture

On MCU2, the speed, the arrival time and the distances were rewritten ten times a second, even when nothing had changed, and traffic-light icons were built at a zoom where they never show. Text now changes only when its value does, at most four times a second, and the icons are built only where they appear. A new turn still shows at once.

Pins take less memory

Alert, camera and charger pins are drawn from smaller images, at the same size on screen. That frees about 50 MB.

Tests

Three ways to move the map on MCU2

Until 26 November, MCU2 cars are split into three groups that move the map in three different ways, so we can keep the one that drives best. Yours may move a little more smoothly, or exactly as before.

A lighter start on big screens

On the 16-inch Model Y and the Cybertruck, half of the times the browser starts, the map now loads in stages over the first two minutes, when most of their crashes happen. Lane details, Halloween decorations and your 3D car arrive once the map is ready.

MCU2 keeps up with the car

MCU2 keeps up with the car

On MCU2 the map now shows each GPS position as soon as it arrives, every car spends less time on landmarks it is nowhere near, and houses in Cityscape have roofs.

Performance

MCU2 keeps up with the car

On MCU2 the map moves once per GPS position, about ten times a second. Between two positions it used to redraw the same picture a dozen times, and those redraws held up the one that showed where you are. It now draws each position once, as soon as it arrives. The FPS badge reads about 10 on MCU2: that is the GPS rate, by design.

Landmarks rest until you are near

Every 3D landmark and bridge was checked on every frame, wherever you drove. Out of range, they now cost nothing, and every car does less work per frame.

Map

Houses have roofs

In Cityscape, a house that stands on its own now has a pitched roof instead of a flat top: hipped, gabled or a pyramid, by its shape. The map data does not say which buildings are houses, so the rule goes by shape: low, detached, 50 to 300 m² and close to a rectangle. Row houses and plexes keep their flat roofs, and so does MCU2. The odd small shop that fits the rule gets a roof it does not have.

Bridges show how they are built (prototype)

With lane details on, a bridge OpenStreetMap maps as an arch, a truss, a suspension or a cable-stayed bridge shows its arches, trusses, towers and cables. Landmark bridges keep their own models.

Traffic lights no longer wait on a public server

The traffic-light and stop-sign icons, and lane details, now come from our own copy of OpenStreetMap, rebuilt every week. They used to come from a public server that was slow and, lately, turned us away.

Premium is on us until 2 November

Premium is on us until 2 November

Every member has Premium until Monday 2 November, to launch the miniature world. And it’s Halloween on the map.

This week

Premium, on us

Until Monday 2 November, the miniature world, the 3D views and two widget slots are free for every member. Nothing is charged. On 3 November your plan is what it was. Tesla car-route streaming and synced favourites stay on a paid plan.

The miniature world

The map turns into a scale model of the place, in its own season. Snow where it lies, palms where they grow. It comes with Premium, and it is free for every member this week. Settings ▸ View ▸ Miniature world turns it off. It is deactivated by default on MCU2 cars, due to their limited performance.

The miniature world on Nuns' Island, Montreal: brick houses and lawns under red and gold maples in October.
Nuns' Island, Montreal, in October.
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The miniature world on Nuns' Island, Montreal: brick houses and lawns under red and gold maples in October.

Nuns' Island, Montreal, in October.

Halloween on the map

Until 2 November, in Europe, the US and Canada, the miniature world dresses up: pumpkins along the streets, ghosts over the parks, graves in the cemeteries, a low fog rolling through town, a violet dusk and a full moon over the horizon, where the real one is. Below 30 km/h, a witch circles your car on her broom, trailing sparks. Settings ▸ View ▸ Halloween turns it off. Like the miniature world, it is deactivated by default on MCU2 cars.

Parc La Fontaine, Montreal, at night: a low fog over the park, ghosts, glowing pumpkins along the paths and a big moon over the city.
Parc La Fontaine, Montreal, at night.
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Parc La Fontaine, Montreal, at night: a low fog over the park, ghosts, glowing pumpkins along the paths and a big moon over the city.

Parc La Fontaine, Montreal, at night.

A sky that follows the sun. 338 new landmarks.

A sky that follows the sun. 338 new landmarks.

Since 1 October, the 3D map has a sky that follows the sun and sees further when your car can, 338 bridges and buildings have joined it in more than 20 countries, and you can correct a wrong speed limit from the sign itself.

3D map

A sky that follows the sun

In Tilt and Cityscape, the sky follows the real sun where you are: a glow along the horizon at dawn and dusk, the sun where it actually is, stars on a dark night. The map keeps its own colours. Settings ▸ View ▸ Sky turns it off, or shows another time of day or season.

24 hours over Montréal in 12 seconds. The map turns dark at sunset, as your car does. Open video ↗

Distance fades instead of going white

Far buildings now thin out into the haze instead of turning white at the edge of the city.

Sees further when your car can

codriver measures how smoothly the map draws and adjusts how far you see. When your car has room, more buildings, trees and roads reach toward the horizon. When it doesn’t, the view draws in and stays smooth.

The seven quality levels from one viewpoint. codriver picks the level from your car’s measured frame rate. Open video ↗

A smoother start

The first seconds after opening codriver in the car are lighter on the car’s computer, so the map moves smoothly while it finishes loading.

Landmarks

338 new 3D landmarks

259 buildings and 79 bridges, each built to its real shape on its real footprint, in more than 20 countries. In Canada: Calgary, Québec City, Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Banff, Winnipeg and more of Montréal. In the United States: San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Austin. In Europe: London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Oslo and Norway’s great bridges, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Cologne, Bucharest, Lisbon, Prague and Kyiv, and in France the Centre Pompidou, the Millau Viaduct, Caen, Carcassonne and Toulouse. In Latin America: Bogotá, Medellín and San José, Costa Rica.

The Golden Gate Bridge, one of the 338 new landmarks. Open video ↗

The 3D library, on its own site

The public 3D asset library moved to 3d-assets.codriver.io and grows with the map. Open in Codriver shows a model in place on the codriver map.

Explore the 3D asset library

Driving

Correct a wrong speed limit

Tap the speed sign, choose Report incorrect speed limit, then pick the posted value. Your sign shows it at once on that stretch, every time you drive it, until the map changes. When three drivers agree, everyone sees the correction. Map data is right takes yours back. The same sheet reports roadwork where you are.

Report a wrong limit in three taps. Recorded in the Tesla simulator on a demo drive. Open video ↗

Search suggests as you type

Places appear while you type: names that match first, then the closest. Picking one routes you to its entrance, not the middle of its roof.

Account and codriver.io

Tesla permissions, explained

If a permission was left unticked on Tesla’s consent screen, codriver says which one and links to Tesla’s page to update it. No need to disconnect and start again.

Codes and referral links

A “Have a code?” field on pricing and in your account. A code can take money off Premium or start a free Premium trial without a card. Shared referral links show a card with a QR code.

See it drive where you live

The demo on codriver.io drives through San Francisco, Montréal or Paris, depending on where you are.

The beta is over. Thank you for driving it.

The beta is over. Thank you for driving it.

codriver’s beta ended on 30 September, as announced. The Free plan keeps the drive itself, Premium adds the 3D map and Car route, and prices went up 20%. Beta members now on Free can take Premium · yearly at the beta price for their first year, until 31 October.

Plans

Free stays free

The Free plan keeps the drive itself: the 2D map, north-up or following your car, live road alerts and their settings, turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance, the route advisor, your Tesla’s destination when your Tesla account is connected, Home and Work synced, and Tesla chargers plus one other network. Accounts without a paid plan moved to it on 1 October. Nothing is charged.

New Premium prices

Premium adds the 3D map with Tilt and Cityscape, Car route, unlimited favorites synced to every car, every charging network at once, widgets, app notifications and your own Tesla on the 3D map. Prices went up 20% with the end of the beta: US$6, €6 or CA$8 a month, and US$36, €36 or CA$50 a year. Yearly costs about half as much as twelve monthly payments, and Premium · monthly is now available.

Compare the plans

The beta price, for beta members

If you were in the beta and are now on Free, you received an email with a personal code: a first year of Premium · yearly at the beta price, US$30, €30 or CA$42, then the regular yearly price. It is applied for you when you choose Premium · yearly from your account, signed in with that email, until 31 October 2026.

Your plan

Founder badge before 1 July 2027

Choose Premium · yearly before 1 July 2027 to earn the Founder badge. Members who paid for yearly during the beta keep the price they signed up at when their plan renews. OG badges for members who paired a Tesla during the beta are now final.

In your Tesla

If the 3D views are gone

On the Free plan, the 3D views, Car route and the other Premium extras are locked: that is the Free plan, not a bug. When you tap a Premium feature, codriver now says what Premium adds and opens your account on codriver.io to upgrade, best done from your phone. Your plan updates in the car when you come back to the codriver tab, or within 15 minutes, without a reload.

Thank you

Help codriver grow

Thank you to everyone who drove the beta, reported a hazard or wrote to us. codriver grows by word of mouth. Posts by its founder often get removed from Facebook groups, subreddits and forums, or admins ask for paid promotion we can’t afford. If codriver helps you on the road, a post in your own words helps more than any ad. And if you’re ordering a Tesla, you can use the founder’s referral link.

Tesla referral link
Starts where you parked. Rounds corners without catching.

Starts where you parked. Rounds corners without catching.

codriver now opens where you left it, facing the way your car faces, and the loader clears sooner. The car on the map follows the road through a corner, the camera follows it without a jolt, and the route stays on bridges and ramps. Buildings are shaded, trees are street-sized, and lanes curve.

Driving

Starts where you parked

The map opens at your last position, pointed the way the car was facing, and the loader stays up until it is in place. No swoop from across town, no spin when you pull away. If codriver cannot tell which way the car faces, the map stays north-up until you move.

Round corners, no catching

The car on the map now follows the road through a corner as a curve, instead of catching on it, and the camera follows it smoothly instead of lurching at every GPS update. On older cars (MCU2) motion is unchanged for now.

A faster start

The loader clears sooner, most of all downtown: 3D landmarks now load after the map, and each map tile takes less work to prepare.

Map

The route stays on the road

On bridges, ramps and in trenches, the route line now follows the road it is on instead of cutting through the deck or floating over it.

Warmer light

Buildings have a lit side and a shaded side, trees are green, and the route has a soft glow. At night the distant city fades into the horizon instead of going black.

Street-sized trees

Trees along the street are drawn at street-tree size, at their real height where it is mapped, and stand back from the lane. They now come from our own servers, rebuilt every week from OpenStreetMap.

Curved lanes (prototype)

With lane details on, lanes, road markings and raised roads bend through curves instead of turning at sharp corners, and ramps ease into their slope.

A turn card you can shrink. Shorter alert cards.

A turn card you can shrink. Shorter alert cards.

Two changes for portrait screens, from a Model S driver’s report: the turn card folds down to the next turn, and alert cards take a third less room. North-up now follows your account. Tilt is now described as a perspective view, and the Terms say plainly that the map is for information.

Navigation

Shrink the turn card

Tap the minimize button in the turn card’s top-right corner and it folds down to the next turn: arrow, distance and street. Tap maximize to bring back the trip summary, Save and End. codriver remembers which you chose.

Shorter alert cards

An alert card now shows what it is, how far, and how long ago it was reported. The street name and the plate reader’s DeFlock line moved to the pin: tap it for the details. Still here and Gone keep their place.

North-up follows your account

Your choice of north-up or car-direction-up is saved to your account, so it holds in every browser you sign in to, not only this one.

Map

Tilt is a perspective view

Settings ▸ Map view described Tilt as “3D · terrain”, but it never drew terrain: it is the pitched map without buildings. It now reads “3D · perspective”.

Terms

Terms of Service updated

The Terms now say plainly that the map, its data and its 3D views are provided as is, for information: a 3D view is an illustration, not a survey, and where the road or its signs disagree with codriver, follow the road. They also name the elevation data providers, with their credits. Nothing changes in what we collect or what you pay.

Read the Terms
codriver v2.4: every light and stop sign on the map. The door at the end of the route.

codriver v2.4: every light and stop sign on the map. The door at the end of the route.

Traffic lights, stop signs and give-way signs now show on the map for every driver. On arrival the route ends at the building’s entrance, with the nearest car park marked, and the voice names the exit or the lights before a turn. Trees stand where they grow, and every plane is drawn as its own type.

Map

Traffic lights, stop signs and give-way signs

From street zoom, every traffic light, stop sign and give-way sign mapped in OpenStreetMap shows at the stop line it controls, on the side of the road it faces. Like a pin, it stays visible behind buildings and trees. Coverage is OpenStreetMap’s: a junction nobody has mapped shows nothing.

A tilted 3D night map of the Plateau in Montreal: traffic-light icons on each corner of a junction on Rue Saint-Denis, and red STOP icons at an all-way stop on the next street.
The Plateau, Montreal. Signals and stop signs as mapped in OpenStreetMap.
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A tilted 3D night map of the Plateau in Montreal: traffic-light icons on each corner of a junction on Rue Saint-Denis, and red STOP icons at an all-way stop on the next street.

The Plateau, Montreal. Signals and stop signs as mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Trees where they grow

Cityscape used to scatter the same trees across every park. It now draws the trees mapped in OpenStreetMap, one per trunk, where they stand. A street with no mapped trees has none.

The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge in 3D

In Cityscape, Montreal’s Samuel-De Champlain Bridge is drawn as a landmark, with its sculpted piers.

Far pins step back

Beyond 2 km, alert pins fade and shrink a little with distance, so a zoomed-out map shows what is near without a wall of pins. Within 2 km nothing changes.

Trees clear around your car

In Cityscape, a tree between the camera and your car now opens up around it, the way buildings already did.

Steadier buildings

Buildings with overlapping parts or concave fronts draw cleanly instead of flickering.

Aircraft by type, in their airline’s colours

Every plane on the map used to be the same small airliner. Now each one is drawn from its type: an A320, a 777, a Dash 8, a Cessna, a helicopter with its rotor. A wide-body looks bigger than a regional jet, and a small plane stays big enough to see. Forty-five airlines fly in their own colours with their tail mark; the rest fly in plain white. Turn it on in Settings ▸ Map layers ▸ Airplanes. Cars with the older Intel processor (MCU2) keep the flat plane icon.

A tilted 3D night map of JFK Terminal 5: JetBlue jets with their blue tail marks parked nose-in along the concourse, another JetBlue jet taxiing past in the foreground, and more aircraft on the taxiways beyond.
JFK Terminal 5, with JetBlue’s fleet at the gates. Live aircraft positions from public ADS-B feeds.
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A tilted 3D night map of JFK Terminal 5: JetBlue jets with their blue tail marks parked nose-in along the concourse, another JetBlue jet taxiing past in the foreground, and more aircraft on the taxiways beyond.

JFK Terminal 5, with JetBlue’s fleet at the gates. Live aircraft positions from public ADS-B feeds.

Parked planes face their gate

A jet at the gate usually stops sending its heading, so a terminal full of them used to point north. codriver now keeps the last heading each plane sent while it taxied in. A plane that has not moved since codriver first saw it can still point the wrong way.

Navigation

Alpha

The door, and where to park

In the last 300 m, the route now ends at the building’s entrance mapped in OpenStreetMap, not at the kerb nearest the address, and a P marks the closest car park open to visitors. Your route and your destination do not change: codriver only draws where the door is. Where nothing is mapped, the route ends as before.

A tilted 3D night map arriving at CF Fairview Pointe-Claire: the blue route turns along the mall and ends in a disc at its entrance, a P marker stands in the customer car park, and the turn card reads Turn left, then Arrive at destination.
CF Fairview Pointe-Claire, on a demo drive. Entrances and car parks from OpenStreetMap.
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A tilted 3D night map arriving at CF Fairview Pointe-Claire: the blue route turns along the mall and ends in a disc at its entrance, a P marker stands in the customer car park, and the turn card reads Turn left, then Arrive at destination.

CF Fairview Pointe-Claire, on a demo drive. Entrances and car parks from OpenStreetMap.

Exits and landmarks, spoken

On the motorway the voice now counts: “Take the next exit”, “Take the second exit”, or “Go past this exit, then take the next one”. Before a turn it names one landmark when it is clear: “At the traffic lights”, “After the tunnel”. When it is not sure, it says what it said before. In English and French.

Faster roads beside the motorway

Faster route alerts can now offer a service road running right beside the motorway. Until now it looked like the motorway itself, so it was never offered.

Open-source 3D landmarks

Montréal, ready to build with

The landmarks in Codriver now have a public 3D asset library: 14 bridges and buildings, 36 GLB variants, and their editable procedural generators. Download the models without an account. The code is MIT; the original models are CC BY 4.0, free to reuse and adapt, including commercially, with credit to Codriver. Geographic data keeps its OpenStreetMap attribution and ODbL license.

Explore the 3D asset library
Downtown Montréal around Place Ville Marie in Codriver’s 3D map.
Montréal in Codriver’s map renderer. Camera positioned for this capture. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Downtown Montréal around Place Ville Marie in Codriver’s 3D map.

Montréal in Codriver’s map renderer. Camera positioned for this capture. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

From the Old Port to the river crossings

Place Ville Marie, Habitat 67, the Biosphère, the Olympic Stadium, Notre-Dame, Saint Joseph’s Oratory and the Old Port landmarks join the collection. Samuel-De Champlain, Victoria, Jacques-Cartier and Honoré-Mercier bring their distinctive structures to the map. Each asset includes provenance, detail variants and an interactive inspection view.

La Grande Roue and the Old Port of Montréal in Codriver’s 3D map.
The Old Port in Codriver’s map renderer. Camera positioned for this capture. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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La Grande Roue and the Old Port of Montréal in Codriver’s 3D map.

The Old Port in Codriver’s map renderer. Camera positioned for this capture. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Place names you can read, in Georgian or in Latin letters.

Place names you can read, in Georgian or in Latin letters.

The map now draws Georgian, Armenian, Greek and Cyrillic names, and a new setting shows a name written in another alphabet in its own script, in Latin letters, or both.

Map

Georgian on the map

Georgian street and place names used to vanish from the map: its label font had no Georgian letters, and a name it could not draw was left out without a trace. The map now fetches the letters a name needs as it comes into view, so Georgian, Armenian, Greek and Cyrillic names appear. Thanks to the driver in Tbilisi who told us.

Place names: local script, both, or Latin

Settings ▸ App ▸ Place names chooses how a name written in another alphabet is shown: in its own script, with its Latin form beside it, or in Latin letters only. Both is the default, and changes nothing where names are already written in Latin letters. On the map a town shows its Latin name underneath; search results, favourites, the turn card and alert cards follow the same choice. The Latin form is the English name mappers gave the place where there is one, and the official transliteration otherwise, so some names read as transliterations rather than translations.

Scripts the map cannot draw yet

Arabic, Hebrew, the Indian scripts, Thai, Chinese and Japanese need their letters joined or reordered, which the map does not do yet. Rather than draw them wrongly, it shows their English name where the map data has one.

codriver 2.3: your account, in 3D.

codriver 2.3: your account, in 3D.

Your account now has a second face: a 3D garage with your car on stage and everything else arranged around it, in the car’s day or night look. It is a preview, and the account page you know stays as it is.

Your account, in 3D

Your account, arranged around your car

The new 3D account page puts your car in the middle and arranges the account around it: your screens, your plan, your invites and your public profile. Open the Car view and each setting is labelled on the part of the car it belongs to: the paint, the wheels and the screens paired to it. Tap the paint and the Look settings open beside the car: a paint, wheels or a wrap shows on the car as you pick it, and nothing changes until you save. It is the same account as the page you know, so a change on one shows on the other. It is a preview: open it from “Try the new 3D account page” at the top of your account page, on a phone or a computer, and tell us what works and what does not.

Tap the paint on the car, pick another, and see it before you save. Example account, not a real member. Open video ↗

Every car in your garage

Have more than one car? The row of cars under the stage holds every car in your garage. Pick one and it takes the stage, and the panel beside it, with its own paint, wheels and lights: from a Model Y Performance in Ultra Red to a Cybertruck with its light bar on.

Pick another car from your garage. Example account. Open video ↗

Day or night

The stage follows your theme. In the light theme your car is lit the way your Tesla’s own screen shows it, parked by day. Switch to dark and night falls, with the headlights on. Auto follows your device.

One tap from day to night, and back. Example account. Open video ↗

Truer 3D cars

The same 3D cars appear in the Garage on your account page, and their paint and wraps now look closer to the Tesla app’s own renders.

codriver 2.2: your car’s route, and everything clearer.

codriver 2.2: your car’s route, and everything clearer.

codriver can now follow the route your Tesla is actually driving, and point out a faster road before the junction where that road branches off. Traffic is live and crowd-reported, the map is built on OpenStreetMap, your Tesla sits in your Garage in 3D, badges are live, and codriver now speaks French: the driving app, its spoken guidance, your account and much of the site. The beta ends on 30 September; every feature stays free until then.

Your car’s route

codriver follows the route your Tesla chose

Your Tesla plans its own route, and until now codriver drew a different one. Turn on Car route from your account and codriver draws the line your car is driving, with its turns, its arrival time and spoken guidance, and keeps up when the car reroutes. If you let Autopilot or FSD (Supervised) follow Tesla’s navigation, the map shows the route Tesla’s navigation has planned. It is opt-in and comes with Premium, which is free during the beta.

A red Model Y with its headlights on drives along the Seine in a tilted 3D night map of Paris; the car's route is a gold line, a chip reads Tesla route, and the card says Turn left onto Boulevard Henri IV in 1.9 km, towards 4 Place de la Bastille
codriver draws the route your Tesla is driving, in gold. Simulated drive: the car's route is staged by the demo.
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codriver draws the route your Tesla is driving, in gold. Simulated drive: the car's route is staged by the demo.

Set it up once, on your phone

Tesla shares a car’s route only through Fleet Telemetry, which needs a virtual key, the same kind you would add for Tessie or TeslaMate. A four-step guide on your phone adds it, and the car picks the setting up the next time it connects. The key is used to read the route and nothing else: codriver cannot steer, brake, unlock, set a destination or wake your car. Turn it off from your account, or remove the key in the Tesla app, whenever you like. Tesla lets five apps read a car’s data at once, and an older car software version may need an update first.

A faster road, pointed out before the junction

The route advisor watches whichever route is on the map, yours or the car’s. When traffic makes another road faster by more than the threshold you choose, it draws that road in green where it branches off, says how many minutes it saves and, when there is one, names the reported incident it avoids. On the car’s route the card asks “On Autopilot? Disengage to take it.” It asks because codriver cannot tell whether Autopilot or FSD is engaged, and it never controls the car. The decision is yours: you are the driver. Take the road only when it is safe and legal to do so.

A faster road, shown before the junction where it branches off. Simulated drive: the accident, the six-minute saving and the car's route are staged by the demo; the card, the green branch and the switch are the app's own code. Open video ↗

Map and traffic

Live, crowd-reported traffic

Congestion on the map and along your route now comes from live, crowd-reported traffic, in place of the Mapbox traffic layer. Each slow stretch is drawn along the road it is on, for the length it covers, and the colours line up with real speeds, so a dark red stretch is one you will be sitting in. The in-app sources panel credits the feed and shows how fresh it is. This has been rolling out through September and is live for everyone.

A map built on OpenStreetMap

Every view, 2D and 3D, now draws from our own basemap tiles, built with Protomaps from OpenStreetMap data, instead of Mapbox’s. This is already live too. Mapbox still works behind the scenes, for example to match a route to the road it follows.

One position: the car’s

Your Tesla hands the browser its own estimate of where it is, worked out from the wheels, the steering and the satellites, the same one its own map uses. codriver used to second-guess it, which caused the random “GPS weak” at red lights and the small jumps afterwards. Now it simply trusts the car. The pill reads “Position estimated” while the satellite fix is out and “No GPS fix” only when nothing arrives for ten seconds on the move, and the speed shown is the car’s own number. On older Intel cars, which go quiet when the fix drops, the puck now pauses until it returns instead of guessing forward.

Your account

Your Tesla, in 3D

The Garage draws your car as a 3D model you can turn around: model, version, paint, wheels and, if you add one, your wrap. Connect your Tesla account and the configuration fills itself in; otherwise build it by hand. Show it on your public profile if you like.

A dark Garage card showing a red Model Y Juniper in 3D with its headlight beams on, named MYP 2026 - Ultra, 2026 · Model Y, with Rename, Show on my public profile, Edit configuration and Remove
Your Tesla in your Garage, in 3D. The car's configuration is the owner's own; the card is a development fixture, not a live account.
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Your Tesla in your Garage, in 3D. The car's configuration is the owner's own; the card is a development fixture, not a live account.

Badges are live, with progress bars

Your account and public profile now show what you have earned: OG for pairing a Tesla before the beta ends (30 September 2026), Founder, Car linked, Contributor and Top contributor for confirmed reports, Referrer and Super referrer, and distance milestones from 100 km if you opt in to sharing your usage. A Next up list shows what is within reach. In Settings, Usage badges shows a progress bar for each distance badge you have earned, for the next one, and for Always aware: keep codriver open for more than 75% of your Tesla’s distance over the last 30 days. Always aware reads your car’s odometer, so it needs “Your car’s route”, a Premium feature.

A member card with earned badges Founder, OG, Car linked, 100 km, Contributor and Super referrer above a Next up list, beside Your progress: 100 km earned, 1,000 km at 412 of 1,000 km, and Always aware at 62% with a marker at 75%
Badges and their progress bars. Example data: two development fixtures, not one real account.
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A member card with earned badges Founder, OG, Car linked, 100 km, Contributor and Super referrer above a Next up list, beside Your progress: 100 km earned, 1,000 km at 412 of 1,000 km, and Always aware at 62% with a marker at 75%

Badges and their progress bars. Example data: two development fixtures, not one real account.

An account page that is easier to read

The account is grouped into Overview, Your Tesla, Plan & referrals and Settings. Setup steps reflect what actually matters, driving access and the Tesla screens you have paired, and never an optional Tesla connection.

In French

codriver now speaks French

2.2 is the first release with full support for a second language. Until now codriver was English only, apart from a handful of French pages that were hard to find. The driving app, its turn-by-turn instructions and spoken voice, your account, the setup screens and a large part of the public site are now in French, down to the screenshots, which show the French app. Pick your language from the menu at the bottom of any page. Spotted a clumsy translation? Tell us from Improve a translation in the footer.

The driving app in French on a 3D night map of Paris: the turn card reads 1,9 km, Tournez à gauche sur Boulevar…, towards 4 Place de la Bastille, with the step list Tournez à gauche sur Boulevard Henri IV, Tournez à gauche sur Place de la Bastille, Vous êtes arrivé à votre destination, above a red Model Y with its headlights on and an Itinéraire Tesla chip
codriver speaks French: turn-by-turn guidance, cards and settings. Simulated drive.
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The driving app in French on a 3D night map of Paris: the turn card reads 1,9 km, Tournez à gauche sur Boulevar…, towards 4 Place de la Bastille, with the step list Tournez à gauche sur Boulevard Henri IV, Tournez à gauche sur Place de la Bastille, Vous êtes arrivé à votre destination, above a red Model Y with its headlights on and an Itinéraire Tesla chip

codriver speaks French: turn-by-turn guidance, cards and settings. Simulated drive.

Also in 2.2

The beta ends on 30 September

The beta runs until 30 September 2026 at 23:59 Eastern time, and every feature stays free until then. On 1 October, accounts on the free beta Premium move to the Free tier: codriver keeps working in your Tesla, without the Premium features. Paid plans are not affected. Thank you for driving with us through the beta.

Rain radar retired.

Rain radar retired.

The precipitation layer is gone. It stopped working when the map moved to our own 3D engine, and the tiles behind it are no longer available, so rather than leave a switch that does nothing we have taken it out.

Map

Rain radar removed

The rain radar has been withdrawn. It only ever drew on the old map engine, so it had already gone dark for everyone when the 3D engine shipped; the weather tiles it relied on are no longer available to us. The Settings row is gone rather than switched off. Nothing else about the map changes, and no other layer used that data.

The road, narrated.

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

Alpha

Confetti 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.

Arrival confetti on the simulated Paris drive. 8-second demo; the feature is live. Open video ↗

A marker where the route ends

The route used to simply stop, with 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.

A blue disc on the road marking the end of the blue route, ahead of the car
The end of the route, drawn. Captured on the app’s simulated Paris drive.
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The end of the route, drawn. Captured on the app’s simulated Paris drive.

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.

Direction arrows along the blue route, a white manoeuvre arrow and a distance countdown on the turn card
Follow the ribbon to the next manoeuvre. Captured on the production app’s simulated Paris drive.
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Direction arrows along the blue route, a white manoeuvre arrow and a distance countdown on the turn card

Follow the ribbon to the next manoeuvre. Captured on the production app’s simulated Paris drive.

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.

The same active route in dark mode, with the turn card and manoeuvre arrow still visible
Night mode, with the route still in place. Theme changed during the simulated drive.
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Night mode, with the route still in place. Theme changed during the simulated drive.

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.

Sync from car beside the collapsed Navigate control on the production app
Sync from car is one tap away before opening Navigate. Shown in the production demo.
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Sync from car is one tap away before opening Navigate. Shown in the production demo.

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.

Alerts by type includes a Plate reader row with Hidden, Pin, Notify and Alert choices
Choose how plate readers reach you in Settings → Edit alerts.
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Alerts by type includes a Plate reader row with Hidden, Pin, Notify and Alert choices

Choose how plate readers reach you in Settings → Edit alerts.

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.

Feedback form with a voice recording button, issue categories, privacy notice and an attached screenshot preview
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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.

Settings panel starts with account connection, followed by map view, car display and UI size
Account first, then the view and controls. Shown without a signed-in account.
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Account first, then the view and controls. Shown without a signed-in account.

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.

Full Tesla simulator screen with the 3D car, driving cluster and codriver’s live route in the browser pane
The actual product inside the Tesla simulator used by the homepage.
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Full Tesla simulator screen with the 3D car, driving cluster and codriver’s live route in the browser pane

The actual product inside the Tesla simulator used by the homepage.

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.

Alert settings with separate Flash + sound checkboxes for police and camera categories
Flash and sound are a separate choice for each category. Captured on the production app.
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Alert settings with separate Flash + sound checkboxes for police and camera categories

Flash and sound are a separate choice for each category. Captured on the production app.

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.

Red and blue lights beneath a police pin, an edge glow and the Police ahead alert over a visible route
Police lights on the road, with the route still visible. Captured during the production demo’s scripted alert.
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Red and blue lights beneath a police pin, an edge glow and the Police ahead alert over a visible route

Police lights on the road, with the route still visible. Captured during the production demo’s scripted alert.

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.

A scripted police report on the demo route with a distance countdown and Still here and Gone buttons
A scripted police event demonstrates the real alert card on the production app.
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A scripted police report on the demo route with a distance countdown and Still here and Gone buttons

A scripted police event demonstrates the real alert card on the production app.

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, and during beta there’s no cap. Credit applies at your next renewal once paid billing ships.

Bigger where the screen is bigger.

Bigger where the screen is bigger.

A Model S or X hands the browser its whole screen unscaled, so every control came out about a third smaller than the same setting gives you in a Model 3 or Y. The UI size slider now goes further on those screens, and the 3D car is the size of a car again.

Display

The UI size slider goes to 16 on a large screen

Same panel, same pixel density, different maths: a Model 3 or Y has its browser enlarge everything by half again, and a recent S or X does not. The slider now runs past full size on any screen that reports its pixels unscaled, which puts a control back where it has always been on a 3 or Y, and then some. Nothing changes on a Model 3 or Y. If a firmware update ever starts scaling the bigger screens, the extra steps step aside on their own.

Move the Report button off the corner

Some cars paint their own badge (a passenger-airbag warning, for one) over the bottom-right corner, on top of Report. Settings ▸ View ▸ Report button now offers Raised, which lifts it clear. It holds that distance at every UI size.

Your car

The 3D car reads as a car, not a speck

Below about the zoom you drive at, the car now holds a steady size on screen instead of shrinking with the map, so it sits next to the arrow it replaces rather than a third of it. Park, and it goes back to true scale against the road.

It was being measured with its headlights on

Every vehicle's length was taken with the headlight beams counted in: eleven metres of light on the road treated as part of a four-and-a-half-metre car. The glow ring around the car was sized off that same number, which is why the car sat lost in the middle of it. Both are right now, on all twelve models.

Your screen, with other people's apps on it.

Your screen, with other people's apps on it.

codriver now has a marketplace. Put a page in one of two screen slots, or let an app tap you on the shoulder. Phone notifications arrive as a toast over the map and then get out of the way. Everything runs walled off from your session, your location and your route.

Extensions

Two slots on your screen, and you decide what goes in them

There is a marketplace at codriver.io/marketplace. Install something, fill in whatever it asks for on your account page, choose a slot, and it is on the driving screen the next time the car loads. Take it out the same way. Nothing appears in your car that you did not put there.

Notifications are toasts now, not a panel

A notification app spends most of a drive with nothing to say. Giving it one of the two slots to display the words “listening” for an hour was a bad trade, so it no longer works that way. Notification apps get four background channels instead. A channel stays invisible until something arrives, shows a toast over the map for a few seconds, then disappears. Four can be listening at once, and they queue rather than pile up.

Phone notifications on the map, via ntfy

The first app in the marketplace is an ntfy client. Point it at one of your ntfy topics and anything you send there from your phone, a home server or a script that watches a price shows up on the driving screen. Your own topic, your own server if you self-host, nothing routed through us.

Or point a slot at any page you like

“Custom page” is a first-party app that takes a URL. A dashboard, a departures board, a chart you already keep in a browser tab. If it is a web page and it allows being framed, it can sit on your screen. We check whether it allows framing when you save it and tell you plainly if it does not, instead of leaving you with a blank rectangle.

What an extension cannot do

Every extension runs in a sandboxed frame from its own address, never as part of codriver. It cannot read your session, your saved places, your route or your position, because none of that is reachable from where it runs. What it receives is the size of its box, your theme, your units, and whatever settings you typed into it yourself. A notification app can send exactly one thing back: text for a toast, which we draw ourselves. Links inside a toast are stripped, because we will not put a tap-through to a web page in front of someone who is driving.

A person reads every submission

Nothing reaches the shelf automatically. Every app and every new version is reviewed by hand before anyone can install it, and an update to an app you already have never changes under you: your install stays pinned to the version that was approved when you installed it.

Your account

One account, several ways in

Signing in with Tesla used to match you by email, which silently created a second account if the email on your Tesla differs from the one you signed up with. It does not any more. Your account page now lists every way you can sign in, lets you link another, and if you did end up with two accounts it can merge them, including cars, paired screens and settings.

Your garage

Your car, as Tesla describes it

When you connect a Tesla we now take the year, model, trim, colour and wheels straight from your car rather than guessing at the closest thing we had seen before. Cars we had never encountered used to end up wearing someone else's paint. You still own how it looks (name, wrap, whether it is visible on your profile), and Tesla owns the facts.

When we cannot tell which car you meant

Sending a destination from the website to a screen that is not clearly tied to one of your cars now says so, instead of silently picking one.

On the map

Where a pin came from

The sources panel now names the service each pin actually came from. If you are deciding whether to trust a report, you should be able to see where it originated.

For developers

The shelf is open, and the contract is written down

If you can build a web page, you can build a codriver extension. There is no SDK to install and nothing to compile. Your page runs in a sandboxed frame and receives one message with the driver's theme, units, screen size and the settings they filled in from a schema you declare; a notification app posts back a title and a line of text and we draw the toast. Submit at codriver.io/marketplace/submit and a human reads it, usually within a day. The full contract, the config-schema rules and the compatibility guarantees are at developer.codriver.io, and the design decisions behind all of it are public in our ADRs, including why we refused the obvious version of this feature, where you would hand us a URL to a script and we would run it alongside our own code.

The engine has a name, and the old cars won.

The engine has a name, and the old cars won.

Yesterday's 3D views run on a renderer we wrote ourselves. It is called Peregrine, and on a 2019 Model 3 it draws the 3D map more than twice as fast as the flat one.

Map

Meet Peregrine

codriver runs inside the Tesla's own browser, with nothing to install and no firmware to wait for. That is the whole idea, and it is also our hardest constraint: everything has to work in a browser tab on a car computer. The map is where that ceiling landed hardest, so we rebuilt the 3D engine ourselves rather than keep tuning a general-purpose one that has to run on phones, laptops and televisions too. As far as we know, nobody else has done this for this browser.

On older cars, 3D is now faster than 2D

On a 2019 Model 3, the pre-2022 Intel computer, Peregrine draws the full 3D map at 25 to 35 frames a second, where the ordinary flat map on that same car manages 10 to 15. Same car, minutes apart. It holds a steady 60 on a 2023 Model Y, and we proved it on a 2017 Model S as well. We expected those older cars to become merely usable; the name came afterwards, once we saw what they actually did.

The warning is gone

If your Tesla was built before 2022, opening a 3D view used to show a dialog warning you that your car might not cope, and even if you went ahead, the app snapped you back to 2D on the next reload. Both are gone. Tilt and Cityscape are simply available now. That warning described the old renderer, not your car.

A proper start-up screen

3D views now open on a Peregrine boot screen rather than a blank map: the falcon in its dive, and a readout of what the engine is doing: fetching tiles, decoding them, building the road ribbons. It clears the moment the map has real tiles on screen, not a moment before.

On the highway

Your car glides instead of hopping

The car's GPS reports once a second. At 120 km/h that is a 33-metre jump every second, and on a map that now draws 60 frames a second the jump was the only thing left that looked wrong. Above 30 km/h the map now carries your car forward between fixes at your actual speed (along the route when you are on one) and eases onto each new fix rather than snapping to it. The position is still the car's; only the motion between readings is ours.

The road ahead, all the way to the horizon

The detailed map used to end about a kilometre in front of you. Tilt the view for a long look down the highway and the road simply ran out onto bare ground, well before the exit you were watching for. Major roads now draw out to the fog line, and the map fetches the tiles in front of you, about thirty seconds of driving ahead, before you get there, instead of the moment you arrive. 2022-and-newer cars fetch a little further ahead; older ones keep the lighter footprint.

Less zoom-out at speed

Above 80 km/h the map used to keep pulling back as you went faster. With a steep tilt the top of the screen already looks kilometres down the road, so zooming out bought nothing except a smaller car and a closer map edge. The speed-linked zoom now flattens out on the highway, and a steeper tilt gives some zoom back. City driving is unchanged.

A new engine under the map. Your car on it.

A new engine under the map. Your car on it.

The 3D views now run on a renderer we built for the car: roads drawn as real geometry, street names that stay upright, and your own Tesla in place of the arrow. You can also drive without an account, and vote on any pin on the map.

Map

The 3D views, rebuilt

Tilt and cityscape now run on Peregrine, a renderer we wrote for the car instead of a general-purpose web map. The old one rebuilt the world every frame, and on a nav view that is every frame of your drive. The new one builds each piece of road, ground and building once and then leaves it alone. The map holds its frame rate at speed, and it holds it best on the cars that needed it most.

Street names that stay the right way up

Labels used to be part of the map imagery, so on a heading-up map they spent half of every drive upside-down. Street and place names are now drawn separately: upright at any bearing, angled along the road they name, with a halo so a name stays readable over a bright road or a dark park. It leaves out cafe names and clutter and keeps only the roads you need to read at speed.

No more blank map when you zoom

Crossing a zoom threshold used to blank the map for a moment while it rebuilt. Detail levels now cross-fade into each other, so zooming and the automatic speed-linked zoom are both continuous. Road closures and traffic no longer shimmer while you pan, either.

The map takes its colours from your car

The 3D basemap now follows the car's own day/night theme rather than approximating it, so codriver sits next to Tesla's map instead of arguing with it.

A cleaner route line

The route keeps a fixed width on the ground rather than on screen, so it reads like a lane on the road instead of a stripe pasted over it, narrowing into the distance the way the road does. Buildings pass in front of it where they should.

Your car

Alpha

Your actual Tesla, instead of the arrow

Premium. Settings → View → Your car replaces the position arrow with your car: twelve vehicles, in your paint and on your wheels, lit and reflective, headlights on with the dark theme. It drives off the same position and heading the arrow did. One car downloads, only after you switch the feature on, and only the one you picked.

Reports

Vote on any pin

Thumbs up and thumbs down now appear on every incident on the map, not just the ones other codriver drivers reported. If you drive past a jam that cleared an hour ago, you can say so. The buttons speak the pin's language: a jam is "Still slow / Clear now", a closure "Still closed / Open now".

One thumbs-down actually counts

A single dispute on a pin nobody has confirmed now hides it for everyone for the next half hour to two hours, and any confirmation brings it straight back. Before this, one driver's correction was mathematically a no-op, which is a poor answer to someone who took the trouble. Votes have to come from within 2 km of the pin.

Reports were always visible immediately

Our own pages used to claim a report sat invisible until three other drivers confirmed it. That was never how it worked: a report is shown to every driver in range the moment you post it. The pages now say so. If you read the old version and concluded reporting was pointless where you live, it wasn't. Sorry about that.

Account

Drive without an account

The map, alerts, cameras and Superchargers now open without signing in. Pair when you want the rest. Guests see Tesla charging only; an account adds the other networks, routing and reporting.

Sign in with Tesla

Tesla is now a sign-in option. Signing in that way lands you with your account already linked and your garage already filled in: the right car, the right year, the right paint, no typing.

Your garage in 3D

Every car in your garage is now a real 3D model you can turn around, not a flat press photo. Cards show whether a car came from Tesla or you built it by hand, and you can edit a car in place instead of deleting it and starting over.

A configurator that describes actual cars

Year, model, version, trim, colour, wheels, wrap and interior: eight questions instead of one overloaded "trim" dropdown that made whole bodies unreachable. Every paint and every wheel that fits your body is now offered, plus 290 official Tesla wraps.

Which car is this screen in?

The Tesla's browser can't take typed input, so pairing now asks the question on your phone instead: which car is this screen in? The answer links the screen to the right car in your garage.

Don't type the address twice

Set a destination in the Tesla's own navigation and codriver picks it up at start-up and routes there itself ("Your Tesla “Bumblebee” has a destination set: Mont-Tremblant, routing there automatically"), with a Cancel button, because routing you didn't ask for should always have an undo. Needs your Tesla account linked at codriver.io/account. If the car is asleep or has no route set, nothing happens.

Interface

A tidier windscreen

The HUD was rearranged around what you look at while driving: maneuver banner top-centre, speed and limit top-left, camera controls top-right, and one bottom band with the ETA on the left and the actions on the right. Tilt and zoom are steppers now, so you can set them exactly without pinching at speed. The compass gets a north-lock badge.

UI size, 1 to 10

Settings → View → UI size replaces the old two-step compensation for Tesla's summer firmware. Level 10 is your car's native size; level 1 is the density codriver had before the firmware change; every step in between is real. It applies as you drag, with no reload.

Easter eggs

Rainbow road

Premium. It has been in Settings for a while and it never worked: the switch was wired to nothing. It works now. That is the whole entry.

Planes overhead. Real speed everywhere.

Planes overhead. Real speed everywhere.

Live air traffic joins the map, the speedometer stops lying on older cars, and first-run units match your side of the border.

Map

Airplanes overhead

Live air traffic on the map. Tap a plane for flight number, airline, route, altitude and speed. In the 3D views planes render as actual 3D models that point where they fly, measured to half a degree; older car computers keep a lighter flat glyph. Off by default: flip it on in Settings.

Fixes

Speed readout on older computers

Some cars, the pre-2022 computer in particular, report zero speed to the browser even while moving. The speedometer now measures speed from GPS movement itself, so the pill reads true speed everywhere. Speed-linked behavior (zoom, alert look-ahead) un-degrades with it.

Settings

Right units out of the box

First run now picks mph or miles from the car's region: US and UK get imperial, everyone else stays metric, and Toronto is not Detroit. A toast tells you when it happens; your choice in Settings always wins.

Absorbing the summer Tesla update.

Absorbing the summer Tesla update.

Tesla's summer-2026 firmware changed the in-car browser without notice, with a new pixel density and a dropped Tesla marker. Here's everything we fixed so codriver looks and works right on the updated car, plus two reliability fixes from the field.

Display

Right-sized again

The summer-2026 firmware (Chromium 148) changed the browser's pixel density, which made codriver's whole interface render oversized on the car. We now compensate so buttons, panels and text return to their previous physical size. Prefer the newer, larger native scale? Settings → UI size → Large. The row only appears on affected cars.

Map pins and zoom, corrected too

The same density change left map pins looking bigger and the map zoomed in tighter than before. Pins are back to their normal size, and a given zoom level shows the same amount of road it used to.

Your car recognized again

The update also dropped the Tesla marker the browser used to send and changed the reported screen size, so updated cars were being misread: some Cybertrucks and older-computer cars fell into the wrong bucket. Detection now works off the physical screen size and the in-car graphics chip, so your car, and the right map-quality defaults for it, are correct again.

Map

The route always draws

Fixed a bug where the route line could silently fail to appear, most often after the browser reloaded mid-drive, or when switching between 2D and 3D views. The route, your position puck and alerts now repaint reliably after any view or theme change.

Navigation

Readable turn banner in split-screen

In a narrow or split browser pane, the maneuver instruction could wrap one word per line into a tall tower. It now keeps a readable minimum width.

Pairing

No more reload loop after pairing

A field issue could leave the car's browser reloading over and over right after pairing. We've capped auth-triggered reloads: the worst case is now a stable re-pair screen instead of a stuck browser.

Turn-by-turn lands. In alpha, with its eyes open.

Turn-by-turn lands. In alpha, with its eyes open.

The biggest drop since launch: guidance that calls the road, a police alert with its own switch, and rain on the map.

Navigation

Alpha

Turn-by-turn guidance

Set a destination; codriver routes you with live traffic and calls the road: maneuver banner, lane arrows, roundabout exit counts, distance countdown, live ETA. It's marked ALPHA because instructions can be wrong. Keep the Tesla's own navigation running in the background; if an instruction disagrees with the road, believe the road.

Voice, on a car that can't speak

The Tesla browser has no voice engine, so we bundled our own turn calls (left, right, per-exit roundabout phrases, merge, exit, arrive), with a chime as last resort. Off by default while alpha: Settings → Guidance sound.

Faster-route prompts

Traffic is re-checked every few minutes. When another route saves ~2 minutes or more: one toast, one tap, switched. Never automatic.

Route alternatives, mid-drive

A new button re-picks your route from wherever you are now.

Drive resume

If the browser reloads mid-drive, the route comes back on its own, with a Cancel if you're done.

Tunnels and dead zones

When GPS drops, the countdown keeps running along the route (“GPS weak, estimating”) instead of freezing, for up to two minutes. Estimates never trigger a reroute.

Snap to road

The position puck rides the route centerline instead of wobbling with GPS scatter.

Tesla hand-off

Destination already set on the car's nav? codriver adopts it at boot. Type it once.

Posted speed limit

The limit of the road you're on, next to your speed. White SPEED LIMIT plate in North America, red ring everywhere else.

Alerts

Police ahead

Red/blue lightbar flash plus a sound for a police report ahead in your direction of travel, checked against your route corridor while navigating and against a forward cone in free drive. Fires once per report. It has its own switch (Settings → Alert sounds), on by default and independent of guidance audio: muting the turn calls doesn't mute the police call.

Map

Rain radar

Live precipitation overlay. Settings → Sources → Rain radar, off by default.

Tesla-matched basemap

Map palette matched to the Tesla UI, day and night. Free-flow traffic noise removed, roads properly cased.

Track by default

New installs boot into Track: 2D, follows the car, the smoothest view on every screen. Compass, Tilt and Cityscape are still one tap away in Settings.

Cleaner controls

Recenter now appears only when you've moved the map off the car, and it's labeled, so it says what it does. Sharper icons on the report and route buttons.

Kinder to the older computer

Cars on the pre-2022 media computer (MCU2) now boot into Track at full resolution. The 3D views are more than that chip can handle, so picking Tilt or Cityscape warns you first instead of letting the browser fall over. You can still proceed; it's your car.