Recent content by David__

@E90alex Yea, not much space... That is still a bit of a different issue: "will chains fit on the front wheels" vs "should chains be on the front if only two wheels will have chains."

@SidetrackedSue @Tronguy @brkaus Right, chains on all four wheels would be best. For some reason Tesla recommends just having chains on the rear tires though. I'm mainly saying that since the speeds are really slow, if only having chains on the front or back are the only options, being able to...

@brkaus @E90alex @gsmith123 @flixden @Big Dog @Tronguy I've read your points and respectfully, none of that info is new info. When using chains, the speed is almost always 20mph or less so the whole scenario of having the back end slide around while the car uncontrollably flies off into a ditch...

I have a 2023 AWD Model Y. Why does Tesla recommend installing tire chains on the rear? Imagine all 4 tires are on ice. I would rather have the front wheels have traction since they carry most of the braking load, and are responsible for steering. I don't care if the back-end is sliding around...

Keeping ease of customer installation in mind, the better product would be one where the customer simply unplugs the FDP-Link III + power cable from the screen, plugs it into the new PCB, and the new PCB will have its own identical FDP-Link III + power cable that plugs into the screen's original...

FDP-Link III is used as a more convenient way to send video data over coax cable, or twisted pair. It would be best to override the video data after it has been deserialized, when it is in its RGB form. Otherwise I have to have a serializer and deserializer on my custom PCB, increasing cost...

I've done a lot of video interfacing work using FPGAs. If I can get some basic info of how to access the wiring harness that the video data is being sent over, in an easily reversable way, I can use my oscilloscope to start probing the connections. The big question will be, what video input...

It is still a hacky, less convenient solution compared to directly tapping into the screen's input channel.

Is there a system yet that doesn't require you to create a hotspot, open the browser, and navigate to a custom webpage every time you get in the vehicle!? If there isn't a system like that, then there is no system worth getting yet! There needs to be a box that connects to the screen's video...

There was at least one accident where a tesla crashed into/under a semi-trailer which was perpendicular to, and crossing, the road. I'm betting there were several other accidents which were similar in that the crash was caused by autopilot failing to "identify" the object, so it hit it. That is...

Lack of satellite view and traffic-based routing makes Telsa navigation garbage vs google maps. Even if traffic based routing is working, but traffic view is disabled, that is still bad enough to ditch Tesla navigation completely. I ought to just stick a phone mount right in the middle of the...

Are you sure traffic-based routing is still there? I was under the impression that traffic-based routing was disabled too, making Tesla navigation worthless vs google maps on a phone. I also strongly prefer satellite view as there is far more information displayed.

Once premium connectivity runs out, the phone is best for navigation, and the screen is even less useful and better utilized as an android auto display. I don't know why HDMI out was prioritized over HDMI in. The current method for carplay and android auto in Teslas is stupid. You have to...

Yes, Tesla is putting a design ideology ("has to be vision because people do it") above using whatever is the safest (radar) with current technology. Customers are getting an inferior dynamic cruise control experience vs other manufacturers as a result. The most important question is "Is the...

Maybe you aren't understanding what stereo vision is. There's a single camera facing forward in the rear view mirror assembly. That is monocular vision. It doesn't matter that Tesla is trying to artificially create a 3D vector space using all of the cameras. That's still BS object recognition...