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Has anyone noticed this on 2024.14? Sentry Mode is coming on at home and work, even though they’re excluded in the settings.

Yep. Even with the updated maps. Overall I’m pretty impressed with this update on my Atom Model 3. It’s noticeably smoother and Netflix is now useable again. The extra visualisations for other vehicles are interesting (though I’d not show oncoming traffic on the motorway by choice because it’s...

yes, first time ever that Autopilot managed the M1/M25 junction without screwing it up.

I quite like the regen / power bar. The lack of one in the Mach-E really annoyed me when I had one for the weekend. Not mentioned yet but a lot of new stuff in the service mode pages, including a new change-log separate from the normal car one. Also new navigation data downloading as I write.

Got it on my Intel Atom Model 3 today. Apart from the new UI all the advertised features seem to be there. Shame Audible doesn’t work in the UK though (the login QR code redirects you to Amazon.com instead of Amazon.co.uk). Unless anyone knows another way to sign in?

If anyone knows that they're going to be selling on a 2019 or newer Model S Long Range (100D?) over the next three months, please let me know before you hand over commission to We Buy Any Car or similar. Max 60,000 miles. My salary sacrifice Model 3 is due to go back to the big dealership in the...

Yeah, I find EAP useful (although I think it’s a rip-off for what it does), but second-hand FSD is basically a lottery ticket and should probably be priced the same.

For those who sold their Tesla privately:- If you paid for FSD or EAP when you bought the car, do you think you got any of that money back when you sold it? I'm actually scouting around for a used Model 3 and would quite like EAP, but would probably pay a smidgen more for FSD at this point on...

I've decided to just buy a used Model 3 when the lease is up in September. Even with salary sacrifice I'm not prepared to pay for more than the entire cost of the car and then give it back to the leasing company to sell on. Used Model 3 with Ryzen and OK mileage is about 26K.

I've only had Intelligent Octopus fail to charge once, but a backup is to always set the charge schedule in the car to start charging at 23:30 when at home. If IO needs to add extra charge slots it'll override this, and if not you'll get at least six hours of electricity into the tank.

They’ve objected to every proposed large-scale battery installation on safety grounds.

Arguably the problem here is the fire service giving dodgy advice. The hospital doesn’t really have a choice as they’d be in an indefensible position if something did happen. The fire service has a history of being anti EV. They’ve objected to battery installations all over the country on...

There's a load of third party chargers at the Scotch Corner services now, which is much better than fighting for 60kW at the hotel.

I dump my car in airport car parks for weeks at a time and the battery never drains more than a few percent.

Wow. Who made the decision to open one of the busiest sites (Northampton) to all vehicles? Not surprising Musk just sacked the entire Supercharger team.

I wonder if Tesla could price aggressively enough to force Gridserve / Ionity / Instavolt into receivership, and pick up another 1000 charge points?

You *could* do that, but mine has kept guard on my car's dashboard for nearly three years now.

It doesn't cause "wear and tear" on the car. What do you think could wear out?

It's not the roundabout sign. It's down to the fact that Autopilot is written for US highways, and then copied and pasted for the UK with "left" changed to "right". US junctions get lane 1 as a slip road. In this case, the Tesla recognises that there's no hard shoulder; it's at a junction; and...

Yes, I've not used either since they started charging for access.

If you're still under warranty then it's worth raising a service request in the app for this. It won't result in a fix directly for your car, but they do get bounced upwards. Tesla is statistic-driven more than most companies, so this is about the only way to get things fixed.

Because it's a business decision. Looking at the leaked video I don't think it could do the shiny car rendered when you're not moving with the shortcuts for bonnet / boot etc.

I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. The point I’m making is that it’s possible that the autopilot visualisation is actually being rendered elsewhere and just provided to the MCU as little more than a video feed from the autopilot computers (which are completely separate and independent...

Doesn't this support my argument? I notice that when the map is lagging, the autopilot visualisation isn't, which implies that it's being rendered elsewhere.

Assuming the 3D model is being rendered by the Intel GPU anyway. I can imagine the high resolution stationary version rendered on the iGPU, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the autopilot visualisation is being rendered by the autopilot computers and just piped down to the display.

But largely pointless if you have to pay £5 to access Supercharger sites, which is where things are trending thanks to their policy of putting them in hotel car parks.

Enforcing the 70mph limit on motorways would also go a long way towards reducing both carbon emissions and air pollution, as would banning cars and diesel trains from idling when stationary. Turning off the start/stop functionality in an ICE car should result in an automatic increase to the VED.

Not especially, but I do care about providers taking the piss, which is happening with the big three (and possibly Tesla as well, as their prices used to rise and fall with wholesale costs but have been static/increasing for a year).

*one week later Ionity charges 99p/kWh at peak times*

My Model 3 does this. I think the temperature sensor is somewhere caught by the sun, because it only freezes me on a sunny day.

What do Hypervolt say?

The lease is up on my Model 3 in September and I'm planning to just buy a used model outright given that the lease costs massively outweigh any salary sacrifice saving (assuming the insurance isn't £20,000/year). In the price bracket I'm looking at I can have a 2022 Model 3 LR, or a 2019...

Are you absolutely sure it was a 100A fuse, and not just the fuse carrier, which often states 100A on it? You can overload an 80A fuse for a considerable period before it blows. They’re there to protect against direct shorts and long-term overload. For example, a 60A (well, they’re 63A now)...

Same here. I thought I just picked a dodgy one.

Yeah, now over £1,400 gross for a LR with enhanced autopilot with Tusker (12,500 miles, 36 months). Even with insurance they're pretty much assuming that the car has zero value after 3 years.

I would imagine fleet sales have tanked because a 2024 Model 3 is roughly £200/month more than it was in 2021 with most providers. You could have a Model 3 for £800/month, or you could have a Hyundai Ioniq 6 for roughly half that price with the same spec but 800v architecture.

Ahh, apologies. 🙂

Sorry, are you calling me a troll? Bit childish. Zoros: Weirdly, I also work in a safety critical industry. There is nothing in aviation that would fit the scenario you describe to have worked on. There’s no autonomy in autopilots… You’re absolutely right that I associate the relative danger...

Oh god, not again. There is no “driverless car dilemma”. It’s not a philosophical problem in any sense of the word because it never reaches the point where a decision needs to be made. There is no decision. Road use is a strict risk hierarchy: 1. You. You are the driver (or person directing...

I’ve had the occasional “pay attention to the road” warning when digging deeper into the navigation than I should have done, but very rarely and never to the extent of being locked out (whether for the one drive or a week). I do 99% of my driving with Autopilot engaged so your car either has a...

Well, obviously. You can’t put Superchargers inside a hotel. Most people know that, surely? No, I mean that they’re often in hotel *grounds*. The hotels then realise that they have a massive bargaining chip and start charging for access to their car park.

Why do they keep putting them in hotels?

I’m not an expert on airport finances but I suspect we’re about to see the airports realise that they can charge an extra fee to anyone parking an EV and blame it on “safety”.

5 people a *day* die on the roads in the UK at the moment. The screw-ups I've seen from FSD beta videos range from a bit of scraped paint, to a potential write-off, to a potential head-on with serious injuries. But I think it's pretty unlikely someone would die. It's very wary around...

Quite impressed. They’re playing it safe with the blanking so could go even finer on the precision. Interestingly I was cursing two cars behind me with dazzling headlights and they were both Model 3s. Hope mine isn’t doing the same. Autopilot much less panicky too. It’s definitely seeing...

On the motorway quite often the headlights of trucks are behind the central barrier (and not visible to the camera), but because the cab is higher up the driver gets dazzled.

Anything to do with the recent API change Octopus were notifying about?

It's for Myenergi (or the company that supplied) to prove that it doesn't have a fault, not for you to do the otherwise. Ask them to confirm in writing that they're refusing to honour your statutory rights. Having said that, I've found that my own Model 3 can be a bit picky about non-Tesla...

Aliexpress might have what you want: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806418273253.html

I wonder, if you were walking down a pavement with your child, would rather have absolutely zero vision due to eleventy billion lumens of misaligned Tesla headlights in your eyes, or that car dropping to dipped beam? Staying on full beam suggests to the pedestrians that you haven’t seen them at...