Tesla S Owner's Manual page 115

Controls
Display
Trips
Navigation
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Manually control the brightness and the DAY (light background) or NIGHT
(dark background) setting of the touchscreen and instrument panel. When
set to AUTO, the brightness changes automatically between day and night
brightness based on ambient lighting conditions.
Brightness: Drag the slider to manually control the brightness level of the
displays. When Auto brightness is on, the displays are further adjusted
based on both the surroundings and by learning your preferences (it
remembers the type of manual adjustments you make).
SCREEN CLEAN MODE: Disable the touchscreen momentarily for cleaning
purposes.
You can also customize how units are displayed:
• Time Format: Choose if time is displayed in 12 or 24 hour format.
• Energy Display: Display remaining energy and charging units as either a
percentage of battery energy remaining, or as an estimate of the
distance that you can drive. When you choose distance you can specify:
• Rated - based on EPA testing.
• Ideal - assumes ideal driving conditions based on driving at a
steady speed of 55 mph (89 km/h) on a flat road, and using no
additional energy (seat heaters, air conditioning, etc.).
• Distance: Choose if MILES or KILOMETERS are used when displaying
range, speed, energy, trip meters, map searches and navigation routes.
• Temperature: Choose if temperature is displayed in °C or °F.
• Tire Pressure: Choose if tire pressures are displayed in BAR or PSI.
• Language: Choose the language that is displayed on the touchscreen.
Note: Model S must be in Park to change the language. When you
change the language, you experience a brief delay as the vehicle shuts
down and restarts the touchscreen.
View and reset the trip meters that summarize how far you have driven (see
Trip Information on page 75).
Increase or decrease the volume of spoken navigation instructions by
touching - or +, respectively. Decreasing all the way to the left mutes the
instructions. You can also mute navigation instructions when a navigation
route is active by touching the volume icon on the turn-by-turn direction
list.
Note: This volume setting applies only to the navigation system's spoken
instructions. Volume for Media Player and Phone remains unchanged.
Customize how the navigation system works by adjusting these settings:
• Touch Trip Planner (if available in your market region) to minimize the
time you spend driving and charging (see
• Touch Online Routing to be automatically rerouted to avoid heavy
traffic (see Online Routing
• Touch Avoid Ferries to be automatically rerouted to avoid ferries.
• Touch Avoid Tolls to be automatically rerouted to avoid tolls.
• Touch Use HOV Lanes to include High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes
on your navigation routes. This is particularly useful when using
Navigate on Autopilot (see
Note: You can also display navigation settings by touching the settings icon
on the map (see Maps and Navigation
Trip Planner
on page 126).
Navigate on Autopilot
on page 123).
on page 126).
on page 92).
Model S Owner's Manual