━━ NOTE 01 · ON THE WINDSHIELD
Live traffic, chargers, and driver alerts — on your Tesla's screen.
A community layer that runs next to your Tesla nav. Always one corner ahead.
- Police, hazard & jam alerts from drivers ahead
- Every charging network — not just Superchargers
- No install — runs in the Tesla browser
FREE DURING BETA · ACCESS OPENS HOURLY · FOUNDERS SKIP THE LINE
━━ NOTE 03 · HOW IT WORKS
On your windshield in three steps.
Magic link, no password. Your spot on the launch grid comes up in an hourly start — or a friend fast-tracks you.
Pair the car with a QR scan from your phone — no typing on the car screen. Pin the tab and it's installed.
Alerts and chargers appear live as drivers post them. No app, no firmware wait, no update to install — ever.
━━ NOTE 04 · IN THE CAR
See it in the car.
Pace notes called in tight cadence. Distances over adjectives. “Cop. 800 m. Right bend.” The car stays yours; the layer stays out of the way until it's the moment to know.
- ━━ Heading-up Track + 3D Tilt or Cityscape — whichever you read fastest.
- ━━ Live alerts within your look-ahead radius. Highway = 8 km, urban = 1.5 km.
- ━━ Auto-reroute only on real drift (>60 m, ≥30 s). No twitchy chatter.
━━ NOTE 05 · VIEW MODES
Four ways to see the road. Free starts with Compass.
Same map, four perspectives. Free unlocks Compass — the 2D north-up view drivers reach for on familiar roads. Premium adds the three others: heading-up Track for unfamiliar suburbs, tilted Tilt for highway, full Cityscape for downtown.
Compass
Free2D · north-up · the road in front of you
Track
Premium2D · follows your heading · windshield-style
Tilt
Premium3D · terrain only · clean lines at speed
Cityscape
Premium3D · with buildings · downtown context
Lite-mode (performance toggle for older Tesla MCUs) is available on every plan and is based on the Compass view.
━━ NOTE 06 · WHAT TESLA FORGOT
The codriver Tesla didn't ship.
Tesla put a desktop-class browser in your dash and then left it idling. No community alerts. No chargers beyond its own network. No way for drivers to share what they know about the road ahead. codriver is the app the community had to build itself — a live map of what other drivers see right now, an EV-aware view of the route, and a calm second voice that reads it back to you without nagging.
A 17-inch landscape display, a real modern browser, GPS, sensors — and one of the thinnest in-car app ecosystems in the industry. The hardware is waiting for the apps Tesla never shipped.
codriver runs in that browser. Live driver reports, EV-aware route notes, pinned community knowledge — all on a map you can read at speed.
Once you're in, the install is just opening codriver.io in your Tesla's browser. Updates ship the moment we push them — no waiting on a vehicle firmware release.
━━ NOTE 07 · UNDER THE HOOD
Engineered for the windshield, not the desk.
Other apps recalculate every time GPS twitches or you drift across a lane. codriver doesn't. We reroute only when you've actually left the line — 60 m off, max once every 30 seconds — and refresh traffic every five minutes. Less chatter, more confidence in what's on screen.
Follows your car with the road ahead facing up — like a windshield, not a paper map. Camera zooms out at highway speed, tilts down in town, drops the 3D buildings above 90 km/h so it stays smooth. It anticipates your line so you're not chasing a lagging dot.
Superchargers, ChargePoint, Electrify America, IONITY — the whole picture, not just Tesla's network. Filters know your car: connectors it can plug into natively on by default, adapter-only stations opt-in, free vs. paid, AC to 150 kW+ ultra-fast — tuned to your region automatically.
Built and tested on MCU 3 (AMD Ryzen, 2021+) — that's where codriver flies. MCU 2 (Intel Atom) runs it today, but slowly — about 10 fps. Lite-mode drops 3D buildings and complex pins to claw back frame rate while we optimize. Driving an MCU 2 Model S or Model Y? Help us tune it — reach out.
━━ NOTE 08 · PACE NOTES
Codriver, not coach.
Built by drivers who got tired of being scolded by their own dashboards. Every label on the screen is a pace note: distances and facts over encouragement, no emoji, no exclamation marks, no soft language. Read it in a glance, look back at the road. Peer-to-peer, never coach-to-student.
“⚠️ Caution: Law enforcement detected ahead. Please reduce your speed and obey all posted limits.”
“Cop. 800 m. Right bend.”
━━ FROM OUR PACE NOTE GUIDE · §1.2 CALM AT SPEED
The codriver in the right seat reads what's ahead and puts it on the glass in three words — never grabs the wheel, never asks if you're sure. The product flows from that single image.
━━ NOTE 09 · BUILT FOR THIS CAR
Made for the car you already own.
One window into your Tesla browser. No app to install, no firmware to wait on, no tablet velcroed to the dash. The driver-app loads in seconds and looks like it shipped from the factory — because it speaks the same minimal language the Tesla UI already does.
Same browser, same app across Model 3, Y, S, X and Cybertruck on MCU 3 (2021 and newer). MCU 2 runs Lite-mode while we tune performance.
In the car, type codriver.io into the Tesla's browser. Pin it. Done. No App Store, no firmware wait, no rooted car.
Same restraint: deep neutrals, mono numerics, one accent. No alarms, no clutter, no animations that lag the GPU.
━━ NOTE 10 · OWNED BY DRIVERS
Built in the right seat. Owned by drivers.
codriver is community-sourced, pseudonymous by default, and hosted in the EU (Helsinki). Your reports help everyone behind you. No ads, no surveillance, no upsell to a Google account. The data layer is open — plug in additional sources if you want, or drive.
No accounts required to read the map. Community alerts are submitted unsigned — no identity attached to the row. We don't track where you drove, what you searched, or where you're going. We can't sell what we don't have.
Live alerts from drivers ahead, charger reliability from drivers behind, route notes from drivers who've been there before. The road is loud — we listen. Built in the open — ride along at @codriver_io.
Don't like our default sources? Swap them. The data layer is open — community-built sources slot in without breaking anything. Build with us →
Where your data lives: Helsinki, Finland — GDPR coverage, out of reach of US data acts. Where it goes: nowhere we don't tell you about. Non-justice-system inquiries to share user data are refused outright; we comply with court orders in the user's relevant jurisdiction only.
━━ BETA · THE LAUNCH GRID · PRICING
Free during Beta.
The whole app, no charge, no card — we're opening access in waves so everyone gets a great experience. Get on the waitlist, or jump the line with the Founder Series and back the build.
How you get on the grid
Plainly: sign up free, and we let a wave of new drivers in every hour. A friend who's already in can fast-track you with a recon pass — an invite members earn by driving, which recirculates as the people they invite get on the road. It's a rally start, not a ticket queue.
Sign up free and you're on the launch grid. Build your Garage and profile while you wait — it all carries over.
Access opens in waves: a friend fast-tracks you with a recon pass, or your spot comes up in the hourly start. No queue purgatory.
Pair your Tesla and you're rolling. Pairing earns you recon passes — invite friends, and earn a pass back each time one gets on the road.
Every feature unlocked while we're in Beta — no card required.
- Live community alerts
- Full charger map — every network, one alongside Tesla's at a time
- Compass / Track / Tilt / Cityscape — all view modes during Beta
- Home + Work — synced across cars
- Recon passes to invite friends
Just $2.50 / month. Skip the waitlist, back the build.
- Immediate access — pair your Tesla today
- $30 / yr locked for 12 months after Beta ends — then standard pricing, cancel anytime
- Exclusive Founder badge on your profile
- All charging networks in parallel — overlay as many as you like
- All view modes — Track, Tilt, Cityscape + Compass
- Unlimited synced favorites — across every car you pair
★ During Beta, every plan has every feature. Paying now just locks the Founder price and skips the waitlist. Premium · monthly ($5 / month) opens after Beta. Lite-mode performance toggle on every plan — optimized for older MCUs.
━━ WHY WE'RE IN BETA
- Get the price right. Live traffic and map data come from third-party APIs with complex, usage-based pricing. We're measuring real-world usage so we can set a price that's genuinely affordable — not guess and overcharge.
- Scale without breaking. Opening access in waves keeps codriver fast and reliable for everyone, instead of a launch-day pile-up.
- Make sure it's great. Every driver should have a first-class experience before anyone pays for it.
━━ WILL IT RUN ON MY TESLA?
codriver is built and tested mainly on MCU 3 (AMD Ryzen) — Teslas built from 2021 on should have a great experience. MCU 2 (Intel Atom, 2018–2021) runs it today, but slowly — about 10 fps; Lite-Mode and active optimization are closing the gap. MCU 1 (pre-2018) is untested — we don't claim support. Driving an MCU 2 Model S or Model Y? We'd love your help tuning it — get in touch through Support.
Share codriver. Earn free months.
On top of recon passes, your share link earns Premium time once paid plans kick in after Beta — see your account for the full math. Sign in to get your link.
- +1 month for every 5 friends who sign up and pair a Tesla
- +1 month when a referred friend goes Premium · monthly
- +2 months when a referred friend goes Premium · yearly
━━ FAQ
Questions drivers actually ask.
Is codriver a Tesla app?＋
How is this different from Tesla's built-in nav?＋
Where do the alerts come from?＋
What about chargers and EV routing?＋
How do I sign in? Do I need a password?＋
Is there a free tier?＋
What are the map view modes?＋
- Compass — 2D, north-up. (Free + Premium)
- Track — 2D, follows your heading. (Premium)
- Tilt — 3D, terrain only. (Premium)
- Cityscape — 3D, with buildings. (Premium)
What data do you collect?＋
━━ ONE MORE THING
Ready when you are. Free during Beta.
No credit card. Sign up in a minute, catch an hourly start, and codriver is on your Tesla the same day — or go Founder and pair it right now. The community's already on the road ahead of you.
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