Recent content by PungoteagDave

our cameras cannot "see" well enough to deal with light rain or any obscurity that a human eye can deal with. That's a deal breaker for Level 3, full stop, much less robotaxi. Our basic hardware cannot go where Elon says it will. And he is now almost saying that, but couched in software...

As a FSD beta user, it is a fun toy, but I can tell you that you're not missing much.

Android and Apple Carplay are both really bad kluges IMO. I have them on two cars (Porsche and Ford Powerboost pickup) and do not use them, ever. Much better to just use Waze next to the negative NAV app on whatever car I am driving. Get a good phone holder with inductive charging, like...

Uh, no. There is no real CT basic design yet. Tesla just removed the CT delivery time from 2022 entirely. Ford will begin delivering trucks in the Spring. CT still does not have a production battery form, and both LG and Panasonic are pushing back on design and production issues. And the...

LOL. You folks actually thought the CT was a thing? It could NEVER have been built as shown in the intro, for a host of reasons. Love my Teslas, but my Lightning order is getting finalized on the 26th of October, #2 in the country, will be a real deal years before any Tesla truck rolls from...

Correct. What folks don't get is that the CT was dead from its intro. The form factor was and remains impossible to turn into a production vehicle. The very form makes it dangerous - both the exoskeleton hardened exterior and the angular over hard edges shape mean that it can NEVER meet the...

I always do ppf. Just replaced the xpel on my '19 MX and my wife's '13 Porsche - no issue, not expensive. The '19 MX was backed into in my driveway by a contractor and needed hood repaint, an d the Porsche had an old-school mini-bra ppf style with a line across the hood and fenders, so we...

I don't think this is correct. Tesla's FSD definition includes the limited feature set that is current for all FSD-enabled cars as outlined in their marketing on the website, which states that it will add local point to point driving later this year. It does NOT include the FSD beta that a few...

You replaced the primary structural element of the car, in addition to exceeding its current value. With the new battery, you are no longer driving the car you purchased in 2013. Some of the parts are the same, but that 8' by 5' structure held the whole thing together, and was replaced. Just...

Why? So far there are no model year 2021 MX or MS Teslas in customer hands at all.

There will be no tax credit enhancement, full stop. That entire thing is media fantasy. There is neither any political will nor impetus for such a ridiculous and unnecessary addition to the national debt, now that EV's are proven, moving into the mainstream. The accomplished their goal. Move on.

The MME is evolutionarily far beyond the current Tesla offers except for charging network (a critical miss), especially the directly competitive MY. I have owned Teslas since the getgo, currently have a MX, but the competition is leapfrogging. I don't get the OP's view - reads as fanboi hating...

"it isn't clear at all if there is any proof yet that anyone can produce these cells at a reasonable scale while ensuring the required reliability for use in cars." And yet ELon announced it as a very specific thing, accomplished and ready to go. To which Tesla's longstanding Panasonic partner...

Reports emerging that there may have been a driver who ran away.

This is simply about Tesla's inexperience as a manufacturer of complex products, and failure to backfill that inexperience with professional management. You do not stop production of an existing line of products that will be supplanted by a new line until the replacement product is fully sorted...