Recent content by 1st in Line

I hope it is OK to post this music video here. I just think it is brilliantly done and anyone who has waited for a few years for their Model 3 delivery ought to thoroughly enjoy it! PS: As Elon's No.1 fan, this video deeply resonates with me.

You might require a new flux capacitor... can't be done via WiFi update.

Today I read in "The Driven - Tesla extends free for life Premium Connectivity to more Australia and New Zealand customers", i.e. for people who ordered a Premium Model 3 before 30 June 2019. Having ordered mine on 1st June 2019, I am absolutely thrilled!!! However, I just checked and on the...

Not exactly 100% related to Model 3 in Australia & NZ... , but given the considerable amount of posts in this thread relating to shipping of Model 3s to Australia & NZ, I hope the moderators will let this one through: The real reason for the cybertruck shape: Making it easier to ship. ...

To continue along with Candleflame's moon analogy, "Summon" is a ridiculously small step for man, but a giant leap towards autonomous driving for mankind... I took poor Shadowfax on a large deserted parking lot and it really really struggled with Summon. I could almost sense how Shadowfax was...

How good is it to get ~5% performance increase for free?!? This is INSANE - MAD - UNREAL!!! I get that people have already commented on over the air updates bringing additional features, but to actually get a non-trivial performance boost?!? .... I'd really hate to be a person in a...

Perhaps not of much interest to most people here, but in today's AFR, an article from the Financial Times is re-printed, with the headline: "Tesla ramps up just as China cools on NEVs" The gist of the article is that Tesla might be in trouble with its Shanghai factory, since it is brining this...

Just returning from brief USA holiday, which included a Tesla factory tour in Fremont. Amount of Tesla sightings of all types on the roads was simply amazing (both in Los Angeles and San Fracisco). Traffic in the US was too frantic for me to observe if any of them were driving on autopilot or not.

Looks to me like a classic case of inattentional blindness. [see also: http://www.chabris.com/Simons1999.pdf) The other driver was 100% focussed on squeezing in between the two cars going the other direction and that was an uncomfortably narrow gap, so he/she had to go right behind the first...

I am 1.90m. No issue with comfort. While the driver and passenger seats are awesome in terms of ability to adjust, they do not leave much space below the seat for people on the back seats to put their feet, due to all the mechanics for seat adjustments. One back seat passenger discovered a...

Just a few random observations: First, I saw a white Model 3 parked in our street yesterday. Naturally, I got out of the car to say hello and I said "We got the same car!" to the surprised occupant. When he realised what the weird stranger was telling him, he said the the car actually belonged...

I was just doing what the rest of the media is doing - attention grabbing headlines and misleading commentary about anything to do with Tesla... At 0.22 there were two distinct soft taps with his foot. Just thought it was cute little baby and needed to come up with an excuse to post the...

My less than a week old Model 3 was attacked in an Inner West parking lot yesterday. Thankfully it was all caught on camera in Sentry mode. Police have not apprehended the perpetrator at this stage and the motive remains unclear, but if any one can identify the male vandal kicking my car...

... hence the popularity of "Waiting for Godot" ....who never arrives. Also in that context, an interesting book to read is "Ultra-solutions: How to Fail most Successfully" (by Paul Watzlawick).

.... well, but then there might also be those who publicly campaign against EVs and policies in support of EVs, but privately let their wives/husbands drive a Tesla, because they are also the safest and most fun cars to drive. My wondering goes right across the political spectrum - not picking...