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Boilerplate
codriver(codriver.io) is a community navigation companion for the Tesla in-car browser. It turns the car's 17-inch screen into a live co-pilot — alerts reported and confirmed by drivers ahead, charging stations from every network filtered to the car's connector, saved destinations that sync from phone to car, and a rain radar — with no installation: it's a web app, opened once and saved as a favorite. Interactions are built for the road: one tap to report, never any typing while driving. Every feature is free during the open beta.
Fast facts
What
A community navigation companion that runs in the Tesla in-car browser — no install, no jailbreak, opens from a URL.
Who it's for
Tesla drivers who want live community alerts, every-network charger filters, synced favorites and rain radar on the 17-inch screen.
How it works
Drivers report with one tap; drive-by confirmations promote or retire pins; curated public feeds plug into a platform-owned data layer.
Price
Every feature is free during the open beta. No card required.
Surface
Tesla is the only OEM whose in-car browser is usable while driving — that's the whole niche. Works in any Chromium browser too.
Privacy
Privacy by default: pseudonymous email identity, EU data residency, no ads, no location surveillance.
Map engine
Peregrine — codriver's own 3D renderer, written for the Tesla browser. On a 2019 Model 3 (2018-2021 Intel computer) it draws the 3D map at 25-35 fps, where a general-purpose engine manages 10-15 on the flat map on that same car. 60 fps on a 2023 Model Y. Verified on a 2017 Model S.
Ships
Weekly — public changelog at codriver.io/changelog.
Screenshots
Real product captures — free to publish in reviews, videos and articles. Right-click / long-press to save full size.
Demo footage
Short screen and in-car clips (20–60 s, no watermark) are available on request — email us and we'll send raw cuts you can edit freely, or record the specific flow your video needs.
Story angles that aren't ads
The Tesla browser is quietly becoming an app platform
Tesla's 2026.26 Summer Update gave the browser camera and mic access; 2026.20 gave it parental controls. A category of drive-usable web apps is forming on the only in-car browser that works while driving — codriver is the deepest of them.
Community navigation without an app store
No CarPlay, no Android Auto, no app store on a Tesla — yet drivers get live community alerts on the built-in screen through a plain URL. How the web route beats waiting for native apps.
Someone wrote a 3D map engine for a car's web browser
The browser is the constraint nobody sees: everything has to run in a tab, on a car computer, while you drive. Public map engines are generalists — phones, laptops, TVs — and they pay for that by rebuilding the world every frame, which in a navigation view is every frame of the drive. codriver rebuilt the renderer for one target. The counter-intuitive result: on 2018-2021 Intel Teslas, the 3D map now runs two to three times faster than the flat one. A story about what specialising buys you, and about hardware everyone had written off.
The TeslaWaze → TeslaNav lineage, and the architecture lesson
Two beloved community apps went dark when a single upstream cut them off (one is back). codriver is built the other way: a platform-owned data layer fed by drivers and replaceable feeds. A story about resilience in community software.
Want something for your audience specifically — a walkthrough, an interview, a Q&A thread, early access to something we're testing? Ask. We're an indie project; the founder replies personally at [email protected].
Try it before you cover it — it's free.
Every feature free during the beta. Pair a Tesla in about a minute.