SDK to Change Look & Feel

Description

Provide a software development kit (SDK) or API to create custom information and control screens that could be optionally shown on the main and/or instrument screen.

Competitive/Pricing/Notes

For example, users might want to design a spacecraft control screen, to give the car a custom look. Or, perhaps a screen that looks like something you would see in an aircraft. While you can currently design and display such a web-based screen now, you can’t really make it interactive with the car’s controls or have it update, based upon the car’s current operating conditions, or data from cameras, etc. Tesla could provide an SDK that would give safe and secure access to various components of the car that developers could use to create these custom screens. Then you could have a Tesla App Store that these could be submitted to for vetting by Tesla software engineers and eventually offered free or for a small fee if they were proven to be safe.

Status

Elon Musk originally stated an API will be available in 2015 (from the European tour video, February 2014).  As of 2021, nothing yet. It appears either there are insurmountable security, technical issues, regulatory limitations, or just too low on the priority queue.

See related: Third-party App Support/SDK