Recent content by bdwalters

I like the new Lunar Silver. Tesla is listening!

I had my first safety intervention today in over a month of using it. It freaked out over a jogger at the side of the road. It usually handles them fine by crossing into the other lane a little to give them some space. My guess is that it couldn’t see around the curve on the road to determine...

It’s technically doable. Tesla already has multiple cars that use the same system. Other automakers can use the same hardware and make it work. I can believe it would take 3 years. That’s major design work to get the hardware integrated.

That’s right. I would expect the other companies to have similar cameras in similar spots to maximize compatibility. They would need to redesign their existing systems.

Tesla will eventually solve every problem you mentioned. That said, no FSD system will ever drive like a hyper aggressive driver. No system will beat you to a destination. You’ll eventually get old enough that you’ll need it, however, assuming you don’t kill yourself in a car accident before...

I wonder if Musk is aiming to make Tesla’s FSD the standard, as he did with charging. License it to all the manufacturers. It would dramatically increase the amount of training data available, it would save the other manufacturers a fortune in R&D, it would more easily allow the cars to talk to...

I have recently provided them a bunch of training data on school zones and buses!

I was speaking specifically of Teslas here. I’m guessing the blue and definitely black take rates are much lower than above. Part of that is that they haven’t been the free colors in quite a while. Regardless, change them to a different blue or black. Add a couple other colors too. This is such...

How does that confirm this?

This is my biggest gripe right now.

I still think the subscription is the way to go versus $8000. I’m probably not going to keep the car long enough to make buying it worth it, and I would hate to total the car or trade it in earlier than expected and lose the full $8000. At $5000, I would start thinking about buying.

I like the new red and grey colors, but why hasn’t Tesla refreshed all of the colors by now? Nobody buys black or blue. Change out those colors! Bring back the light silver. This is a cheap way to make aging models look fresh. Even with the Highland refresh, the car still looks very similar to...

If I don’t use the shoulder as a turn lane in Austin off 360, I’ll most assuredly get rear ended at high speed.

That would be a realistic goal. You think Musk is going to set a realistic goal?

My car tried to go into oncoming traffic this morning to go around a stopped school bus. These things are really big and yellow. Come on, Tesla! How hard can it be to stop for these?