Tesla Firmware Analysis, Introduction and instrumentation setup... part 1 of 3

As a recent Tesla Model S owner who is in love with the technology, performance and future potential it was of interest to see if we could be more quantitative on the improvements of the autopilot firmware releases. There are many qualitative comments about the good and bad of autopilot releases which makes sense but not much score keeping which may be helpful to the Tesla engineers to confirm performance and prioritize changes.

I apologize in advance for the long videos. I'm guessing only my fellow geeks would be interested but this is an experiment and I would like your feedback to see if this is useful and any recommendations for improvements. I'm sure we can make this analysis better over time.

The initial launch of this XGeek AP Scorecard comes in a 3 part video which should be watched in sequence.

A playlist has been created to allow for easy sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEVK5ZIFpoTk70OCi6gppjKAdR3yawVL

Or the individual urls for the videos are below:
- Part 1: Introduction (https://youtu.be/s72L3VlMIEY)
- Part 2: Release 17.26.76 (https://youtu.be/TDVdweZfW2c)
- Part 3: Release 2017.28.c528869 and comparison (https://youtu.be/21nZlQPGk8E)

I would like to recognize the people who created invaluable tools that easily enabled data output from Android phones and for that data to be visualized with little effort.

Androsensor
http://www.fivasim.com/androsensor.html

DatPlot
http://www.datplot.com

Enjoy!