Recent content by etmax

I have a model S from mid 2017 and have the latest update 2020.36.16. I don't see any DAB channels. I can understand that Tesla doesn't want to bother with AM any more, within 5 years there will probably be no more transmitters, but FM is still a dominant medium for music (at low quality) and...

To me it looks like a design fault. That little bit of metal might be enough if it's made of titanium, but aluminium alloys, I think not. We have some rough roads and while I take them at low speed I don't like the look of it.

We're all crazy, isn't that great. I'm enjoying it.

Seems it would be an easy SW fix, I'll subscribe to that one, but on the fart scene, it's saved me from interior seat damage on a long trip with a bored toddler so I'm not complaining that they've done it. I may not be under 11 but my passengers sometimes are.

Airbags are deployed only in those situations where the the collision is detected early enough to ensure they don't crack your skull, ie you haven't moved too far towards the steering wheel at the time the deployment is decided. They also won't deploy if the vehicle is sufficiently decelerated...

I have an MS75D without advanced auto pilot and self driving and mine tried to steer me into a car I was overtaking. Mine also gives lane departure warnings sometimes while crossing a line even though I have my indicators on. There are a few quirks in there, and I'm not prepared to put my life...

GM, VW Volvo Audi and BMW are all talking about massive EV manufacturing. Where is their Gigafactory? I don't think anyone in the world can compete with Tesla at the moment on high range EV's

I've used some android equivalent on a Samsung S8 in my model S75D and found that the body has a distinct resonance at around 70Hz which is amongst the lowest I've measured on various cars. They were resurfacing the freeway on my way to work and had dimpled the surface to improve adhesion. Well...

I write embedded SW for a living. imagine Tesla has a bug where an errant routine decides to write a new value into the throttle position register/buffer. The car will put that into the telemetry buffer because it can't tell the difference between an actual throttle press and one that was placed...

I'm not dyslexic but use patterns exclusively when navigating a GUI. It's way more efficient. It's driven me to convert Win7 to look exactly like XP and I have icons arranged consistently on my PC and different but also consistently on my phone. By doing things this way I can navigate the...

The results of a study published in New Scientist says that people find humblebrags more annoying than normal bragging.

A proper schedule maintenance is going to be more on an ICE vehicle because it's based on km's more so than time. An EV really only needs an annual checkup. You can also save by going to a competent mechanic outside Tesla as I think their SC charges are a bit higher than should be

We have a 550m high hill near our place that has lovely winding roads though beautiful country. The road to the top is about 30km. I drove up there and noted that my average usage was around 240whr per km. After a a nice coffee at the top I drove back down the same way. The total trip average...

You already have a continuous setting, it's called the accelerator pedal. Back off slowly and get very little regen, back off fast and you get a lot.

I have a model S without AP and the other day I did a lane change to pass a vehicle going maybe 10kph below the speed limit. I got to 1/4 way past and the steering was yanked in the direction of the vehicle seemingly because it thought I was going to hit the raised curb on the side of the lane...