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Meet the Programmer Behind a Car Browser Elon Musk Might Actually Like
Jon von Tetzchner’s Vivaldi has made its way onto the screens of Polestar and Mercedes models.
The Vivaldi browser.
Source: Vivaldi
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For all of Tesla Inc.’s groundbreaking work advancing digital features in cars, it’s still lacking one thing: a decent browser.
While the EV maker pioneered over-the-air software updates and equipped its cars with massive touchscreens before rivals, its proprietary in-car browser “sucks,” Elon Musk told a Tesla owners’ club last year. “It’s worse than, like, some iPad from five years ago,” he said. “Like, by a lot.”