The future of driving (and everything else) is about being connected

I saw it for the first time a few months ago, but I forgot to mention it, and today, when I passed by the same place again, I remembered to take the photo that illustrates this article: a display on the screen of my vehicle, right next to the speed indicator, which only appears when entering an area fitted with SPECS cameras, in this case, at the entrance to a tunnel about 60 kilometers north of Madrid on the A6, indicating its length, the speed limit, the average speed at which the car has moved through that section since it entered it, and the remaining kilometers until the end of the section.

The feature caught my attention — other Tesla drivers have seen it too, and some have posted videos of it in Spain. When I bought my Tesla more than five years ago, the feature did not exist, and only appeared a few months ago through one of the many updates I receive. The vast majority of these updates are, as with smartphone apps, “minor fixes”, but some others do include significant improvements to the vehicle’s capabilities, such as when they incorporated the detection of traffic cones used to signal areas under construction, as well as traffic lights (with the corresponding warning when they turs green), along with many other features.