Recent content by DonL

I replaced my 2018 Model S with a 2021 refreshed Model S. The user-friendliness of the UI has taken a step backward, IMHO. I have set homelink to autoopen the garage door on approach and did NOT turn on Autofold mirrors when nearby. Nevertheless, the mirrors fold when I near my garage and...

I've been driving Teslas for four years now. In San Diego it used to be common for people to come over and ask about the car or to be seen taking pictures of the car. Nowadays they're common as dirt around here. Yesterday I was standing at an intersection and four Teslas went through on a...

I've had very good luck with Alloygators...AlloyGator - Protect Your Wheels From Kerb Damage

Happened to me at Mt. Soledad in La Jolla. The TV transmitters for local stations are nearby. I did get through using my app.

I've owned five Lexi, the last two being ls460s. I replaced my latest Lexus with a Model S in 2013. I had a couple of minor early issues but the service center fixed them immediately. I replaced my original Model S with a D when that was introduced and the build quality has been excellent...

Kalaidescape wasn't DVD based--they would copy DVDs to hard disk so that you didn't have to keep up with hundreds of disks. There is no resemblance to Blockbuster.

My wife and I were traveling and I was driving a rental ICE. We were leaving our hotel one morning; I slapped my pocket and told my wife "I think I left the keys in the car overnight." Then I realized that if I had left the keys in the car, I had probably left it running. We found it in...

As my friend Edsger Dijkstra once said "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim

IBM 650 Good to run across another 650 programmer. It seems weird that the greatest optimization you could perform to get a program to run faster was by changing the locations where programs and data were stored on the drum memory. My second computer was an IBM1620, then a 709 (another...

Old farts? You're a relative whippersnapper. I'm 76 years old and began programming in 1958 on an IBM650 vacuum-tube computer with 2,000 words of rotating drum memory. The PDP-8 is a modern computer compared to that. Computers I've programmed include the IBM650, 1620, 1401, 709, 7090...

Suspect data Where are you getting your information? Elon recently stated that the Model 3 would come out in 2017 at a price of $35K. That doesn't include incentives, as far as I know. And where did you get the information that the Model S isn't reliable and that the BMW is more...

A question of priorities The Lincoln and Lexus marques have been out for quite some time and they've had time for what we in the SW field sometimes call "creeping excellence." Tesla is implementing things as fast as they can while maintaining software stability--that's a tightrope that...

Center Console trim My interior trim is Carbon Fiber. I ordered flex wrap from Amazon (Black 3M DI-NOC Carbon Fiber) and had it installed by a "wrap" shop -- they charged me $20. Now my console matches the trim.

Center Console The rear portion flips (rotates) up to expose the USB ports and/or optional iPhone charger. The front portion slides forward to expose the storage area. The cup holder(s) consist of four removable inserts that can be configured as one (with two of the inserts inserted) or...

I did the carbon fiber wrap on the piano black console and it blends very well with the Tesla factory carbon fiber. A wrap shop in San Diego charged me a whole $20 to install it and it looks like a factory job.