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It is absolutely *not* OK and under no circumstances acceptable to video the people working on your car. Unless they have agreed to be filmed. Besides, you will see their nose hair, not the work they're doing. The cameras are facing the wrong way.

What's that PWS so many of you keep talking about? Postprandial Whinging and Somnolence? Perennial Winning Streak? Pulse Width Sodomism?

My average is 12 days between updates. The longest stretch being 35 days. So whatever new bugs appear, you don't have to live with them for very long. If you wait with the updates until they're forced on you, your own adjustment is going to be more profound. The upshot is: You can either have a...

Hm. If there's no perceived dimming to oncoming traffic (i.e. they flash at you), then the dimming hasn't worked, even though you *think* it may have worked. Perhaps your lights are not leveled right? It's like arguing with your wife. You can be right all day long, it's their perception that...

I have EAP on my Model S. Smart summon works well, but I mostly use it with the key though just to back into/out of the parking at home. But even with the app in a parking lot it makes for a good show pony experience, and occasionally it's actually useful when it's bucketing down rain and the...

I probably would, I still think at this point in time Tesla makes the best EVs by far. But I'm not in a hurry... which is good considering their plans. For Australia, my preferred transport would be a Range Rover form factor and suspension but with Tesla drive train and tech in it. The roads...

After replacing 4 21" rims I swapped to 19" 2 years ago. Haven't cracked one since. So for me at least it has worked. But now I can't get the full power on the ground and the cornering is not what it used to be.

the reverse facing fender camera views shown in my S are way too small to be useful, and the mirrors only show a tiny fraction of the scene. I rest my case that this could be vastly improved with a birds eye perspective assembled from the surround camera feeds (and yes, distorted obviously).

2024.14.7 just installed, and I can confirm that on the Model S, there is no additional parking visualisation available. No flaming turds for this flaming duck. :)

Maiming or killing a small animal or child - for those who like them - hiding behind your car while you're reversing has nothing to do with basic driving skills. It's the result of not using technology that is already built into our cars and is not being made available to optimise our...

I'll take the birdseye camera view offered by most other manufacturers over this flaming turd of colourful blobs any day. Sad thing is this would be very easy for Tesla to implement with the cameras surrounding the cars. Lack of awareness that other people have implemented superior features...

Couldn't get NRMA Jindabyne #2 working today. Plug in, swipe start in App, press the start button on the ancient charger model, some relays are clicking inside the flaming turd, and the "return plug to charger" light goes off, followed by a text message that my charging session has ended. No...

Just back from a 1200km drive. A few more observations: - Model S didn't only not get the speed camera warnings, it also didn't get the average speed camera function. That's not a sensor or HW platform dependent feature. WTF? - It still thinks trucks with two red lights up high on the trailer...

Here's a really good example of an Alfa Romeo in the adjoining lane to the left (front camera) whose brake lights are flashing like mad to the camera and could easily be misinterpreted as indicators. There's another example (probably a Toyota Landcruiser?) towards the very end of the video...

No, this is likely to do with LED based brake lights (and indicators). The camera shutter speed and the LED cycle time have a bad habit of interacting. Check out the following video: The LED based lane open indicators and speed limit signs in the forward camera appear to be flashing. They are...

On my S with 2024.14.6, indicators and brake lights are only shown for the car right in front of mine. Any other cars also indicating or having their brake lights on are just shown as cars. Is that the same on 3s/Ys out there? Does anyone else with an S have the option to chime for speed...

So this is to reboot the ECUs etc. those components you can't reboot with a double press of the scroll wheels. Thanks for finding that.

Has anyone ever figured out what the "Power Off" button is for under the "Security" menu? On the face of it, one would assume this shuts everything down and puts the car into a minimum power consumption mode, and it seems to do so, turning off the displays and AC immediately when pressed. Of...

2024.14.6 on Model S: Initial wrap up: - Loads more traffic/pedestrians visualised on the dash display. - The only new visualisation I can see on the MCU display is the trip progress/traffic line. - There is NO speed camera chime option anywhere in the menus. - Parking/reversing display is...

2024.14.6 installing now on my 2020 Model S.

Instead insurance companies went the other way. They claim it's because at the slightest ding, the car is a total write off (or at least the battery), leading to much higher than average repair cost. I don't know whether that's true or not, but it's what I'm told by people in the industry.

Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that when driving with TACC engaged, the speed is only changed when the detected limit and the speed limit from the database matches. Whenever the speed limit is detected based on camera/vision only, it is not changed, but still displayed as the new limit.

Has anyone with an S or X and FSD received the 2024.14.3 update? Nothing for me yet (S with FSD). On Teslafi no FSD versions have it. (and yes, not sure what FSD on teslafi means - could be US actual FSD).

@m4artin Your car does not learn from you. It is taught by the super computer facility Tesla have built. They have an army of people that tag information in videos to teach the NN what's what. All we're getting in our cars are the weight matrices to use on the NN code, essentially the result of...

Well, that's a good question. Not sure what Teslafi considers FSD. Probaly the US version. So scrap what I said...

The pace of 2024.14.3 updates is picking up on Teslafi. Australia vastly overrepresented, too. So that's good news for all of you still waiting. Alas, not a single FSD version has it installed... so definitely not a fluke, this update is not for FSD cars. So if you've paid extra, you're not...

About 100 Model 3/Y have received 2024.14.3 on Teslafi. 20 Model S/X (matches the sales proportion I believe). But: All of those who have received the update are non-FSD versions. Astroglide, anyone. 👍

Auto emergency brakes based on USS is a really bad idea. When it's raining heavily, they often detect the rain as obstacles!

There is some justification in being annoyed. When Elon stated that "this is the last car you'll ever need to buy", one could not be faulted for assuming that Elon, generally a reasonably bright chap when he's not on a ketamine induced rant, knew that this means the compute form factors would...

I note a recent population split in this forum. The long time owners who resort to overuse of cynicism, and the new owners who are all over the place like a bucket full of labrador puppies. Unjaded, happy, and full of life!

Just wave at the rearview camera with both hands carrying groceries. Or maybe they'll train the AI to look for sad face standing person with hands full, and that'll plop the boot open.

Having dismissed the usual time dilation, worm hole, and quantum entanglement hypotheses, a more practical thought crossed my mind: Saved navigation points are stored on a per driver profile basis. Are you perhaps in a different driver profile from normal? Brought to you at barycentric modified...

Did you investigate the other carpark to make sure it's not where Spaghetti Industries have relocated to? It would of course be the first reported instance of spaghettification not resulting in forever departure from this side of the event horizon.

When my TP user cohort forgets to replace an empty roll, a false wipe (using newspaper/magazine paper) can yield worse results than a no-wipe. Same goes for the autowipers. Driving into low sun, a false wipe on an otherwise dry window has significant potential to cause streaks, making the...

The dry-wipe / wet-wipe ratio remains constant. It's the false-wipes and no-wipes that are causing consternation. Just like in the bathroom. 👍

I really don't want to be a party pooper. But... It might be time to remind everyone here that unless you see physical evidence of changes on a screen, or the release notes specifically state that they've addressed an issue (such as poorly functioning auto wipers), it is highly unlikely that...

That's why my Tesla has a ludicrous setting. :)

Interesting, I was not aware Telstra was rolling out 5G SA. That however is not a UE function, it's a network transport core function. Any 5G capable device should be able to connect to that network.

5G onwards is different from the 3G to 4G move. All 5G networks in Australia are still running on a 4G backbone. There are no 5G SA (standalone) deployments yet in Oz. One of the difficulties from a network perspective is the fact that 5G SA requires IPv6 and does not support IPv4. I therefore...

You can always wifi it with a hotspot... it's how I keep connected when driving through the never never. Car mounted starlink kit providing faster internet than my VDSL in the Sydney CBD!

...not mean, stupid. This is likely going to result in litigation. They take a feature away we paid for, based on a shady detection algorithm accusing us of wrongdoing, without any solid evidence (those of us who don't have inward facing cameras). I've had one strike on a particularly smooth...

@PC__LoadLetter If you set the option in Waze to play through the phone bluetooth, you'll get alerts even if anything else is playing on the car. 👍

No, it's about turning radius. The island is so narrow, any other car would need to reverse the full length after reaching water at the top or bottom. :)

implemented - pasttense? you mean while they're still working on it...

You also only seem to get speed camera warnings on the 3/Y and the refresh S and X, i.e. on S and X not available in Australia. Because the S and X are the last cars you'll ever need to buy, to quote Elon.

So... where are people seeing the speed cameras in the maps? And do they come with a warning?

Software (and car) marketing is like fashion marketing: rinse and repeat on a 10-20 year cycle - depending on how badly the previous incarnation of philosophy X tanked/failed to deliver, it takes longer or shorter. Same things with new names keep coming back. So I'd say it's the millenial's kids...

Interesting - I was proposing to go for spot price for this year while the market settles (and thus profit sooner from the lower prices), but the other committee members had no appetite for this and preferred a one year contract with known outcome. We still pay almost double what we used to pay...

This highlights a very common problem I have been exposed to for almost all my life - working and living throughout the year in Europe, the US, and Australia. The next problem they're gonna have even if the app is available globally in the app store is the credit card acceptance, lack or...

Apologies, I misunderstood. I don't see any NUOS charges in our accounting. I'm investigating and will get back on this.