Three problems related to navigational (global positioning system) gps have been reported for the 2015 Tesla Model S. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Tesla Model S 2015 90d. I have a service appointment come November 30th 2020 for this but I have had multiple occurrences of the main panel and side panel display go completely crash and black screen on me. Disabling both the "autopilot" v1 feature in mid use on a highway going 60+ mph, gps and other important assistant information such as vehicle speed etc(because screens are black). Its a very jarring and dangerous experience going fast on the highway and having the car "crash" in such a way that just gas and breaking are all that are suddenly left working in an instance(especially when you have that auto pilot feature engaged on a turn). I strongly recommend NHTSA to continue their investigation towards this as there are likely serious flaws with the emmc system and software these early Model S cars released with. I am afraid Tesla is going to give me the run around and not handle the situation appropriately, which would generally be a consumer recall when events as dangerous as this occur. I would say these full system crashes have occurred at least 5+ times since I have owned the car in 2015 and it seems like a matter of time before a serious crash could be caused by this faulty engineering . Tesla currently is trying to do as much damage control around it offering to look into a replacement part but no guarantees its covered by their warranty. As a software engineer myself it feels very much like when hardware starts to go bad, like a system internals beginning to fail due to corrupt memory and storage. These early Tesla Model S'ES are a ticking time bomb to public roads(I say this as a Tesla fan, when working the cars are incredible to drive, when they dysfunction its a very serious problem because of the nature of these software driven vehicles their hardware/software has to be rock solid).
The center console display of my Tesla Model S has abruptly stopped working. I can no longer access the majority of the features of my vehicle, such as turning on a/c, accessing gps, controlling the sunroof, adjusting vehicle settings, adjusting my side mirrors, defogging the windshield, accessing the rearview camera, and any other setting that is controlled by the center display. This has made driving the car nearly impossible. Because of the low visibility of the rearview window, I heavily rely upon the rearview camera. Since center console display was off and hence no rearview camera, I ended up damaging my bumper into a low-profile object that otherwise would have been visible had the camera been enabled. I only drove my vehicle once and damaged it on the first drive with the center console off. I contacted Tesla to have this problem fixed, but was told I would need to pay approximately $1,500. 00 to replace the mcu with the exact same version. Further, this replacement would likely take a month to be fixed, rendering my vehicle effectively useless.
The screen on the car went blank as the mcu failed. While the car worked the audio, autopilot, radio, gps, navigation, turn signals stopped working. The car only had ~46,700 miles on it when the screen failed. Clearly a defect which should be covered by Tesla 2 months after the warranty expired in Dec 2019. This happened while the car was parked.