Recent content by Max Spaghetti

Driving down the Vic Hume Hwy tonight in torrential rain, I experienced what one poster has reported previously: With wipers on Manual IIII (because, well you know why) - suddenly they just stopped wiping. Completely stopped. I pressed the button on the stalk (with completely zero vision...

Or whether they will just look like the Evie site at Avenel: broken for a month. (Again.) It's hard to get excited about new sites when they can't keep existing sites working.

True, but the interface and mechanism to achieve this is clunky at best description. The navigation system is smart enough to look at your calendar to predict your destination each day. The charging system is so primitive it assumes you work a 5-day week. Many of us don't. *Roll-eyes*

It was initially a distraction seeing the road verge flying past on the edges of the wide-angle video feed, but I got used to it after a couple of days and it didn't bother me any more. It was just the night time stuff that continued to annoy.

You'd think I would have learned by now - sorry for the inaccuracy.

Just to report back from my experiment: Charging from 0 to 100% did not improve the energy buffer significantly (I think it went to 5.6kWh). However, after driving down to about 50%, one further charge to 100% restored the energy buffer to 2.6kWh (normal). This time I let had it sleep at 100%...

Ahhh, so that's how it is. Highland drivers only acknowledge other Highlands... Sharing that fellowship and camaraderie that only stalkless drivers appreciate. At least now I know where I stand... :p

So, I guess they are still "working on it"... 😜 I had it happen a second time a couple of weeks ago, and implemented the same "solution" as last time which was to walk away and then come back to it later and it had resolved itself. Both occurrences for me have been after charging in rain...

My ICE 4x4 ute has one of those. When I mounted a camper canopy on the rear tray, the rear view mirror became a garden gnome with no purpose. So I fitted a rear dash cam screen which is the same shape as the rear view mirror which just clips over it. It's great until the camera gets covered in...

I suspect that is partly true, but also a big part of it is the lack of eye contact. I think when most pedestrians venture out onto a road expecting vehicles to give way to them, they establish eye contact with the driver which gives them some confidence the driver is aware of their presence...

To the best of my limited knowledge, it's worked perfectly. I haven't heard of any successful jamming attempts by the Russians. The only issue I have heard of is that Elon got annoyed when they started affixing them to uncrewed surface vessels and he geo-blocked them for that purpose...

You know that I do. But not with a good ODD.

Preconditioning is everything with LFP in cold weather. I have only been watching battery temps recently since I have S3XY commander, and have been surprised with what I have seen. It really likes the battery up around 20C for decent regen (60kW) and 22C to get to max regen (85kW). It takes...

Working at a level of reliability and confidence that the authorities will approve to operate autonomously (L4) and the public are prepared to purchase individually and/or a large company or startup will be prepared to purchase a fleet of them. If you build it they will come. Waymo have a...

Who with? Which distributor? Unless you export more than you import, you are unlikely to win with Amber in winter in VIC. Current range of 24 hour import prices in Powercor VIC are from 34c to 98c.