Recent content by Kichwas

So it looks like the consensus is that I should push to have a service center look. If it’s damage and they tell me to go to a repair place I can accept that... but I did want experts to look first. And yeah I think what I hit was about the height of the curb dividers in the photo there, with...

So what exactly does service now handle? Last night in changing lanes on a freeway in dark conditions I “fell” off of some height difference and slammed the underbody of the car against a low divider (half curb height in the upper side, I think - only saw it briefly when slowing down to the...

This whole idea bugged me until I read about the increase in blind people being hit by cars since Hybrids and now EVs - all that increase being due to such cars... Sure we could remake ALL of our roads to have sensors for blind folks... or have Elon make them all smart glasses that self walk...

Well pointless post to say I am waiting now as of yesterday. Hopefully it won’t be 4 weeks... but we’ll see. Someone was selling hov sticker wraps that you could put under the sticker to protect your car... gotta find those again now.

My thought on this is that it is a very smart move. Many of us are familiar with the news about a half decade back where the showed a hacked car that the hacker was able to stop or accelerate. One can only imagine what could be done with a self driving car. Better to get out ahead of that and...

Tesla’s Model 3 will be the prime target at upcoming hacker contest — The Verge “ The Pwn2Own contest is one of the biggest events in competitive security research, a place where up-and-coming hackers can show off their skills and earn money by finding new vulnerabilities in widely used...

What possible better method could there be? - noting that one feature of v9 is updating from you phone precisely to answer that question... There are people on the road today driving ICE cars that have a driver airbag full of metal shrapnel... A recall has existed for years to fix that... At...

A percentage is just a vague score with no context. “Captain before we hit Warp speed to go to the nezt Galaxy we’re at 73% of dilithium crystals.” “So... do I hit the button? What’s 73%?” “Captain, we’ve got three galaxies and a billion Starbucks we can reach, punch it.” Give me some...

Have you ever been to my hometown? Doubt it. If you have, I actually hope they key you. Your attitude is why the problems exist. Somewhere above half of all San Francisco homeless are former residents. Mostly renters, likely some owners who lost in the financial collapse. - read studies done by...

I’m not going to worry too much about this as I drive past all these old BMWs and Subarus that still have cassette tape players... Maybe I will worry about it when a newer Tesla flies by over me...

I was born in San Francisco at the dawn of the 70s. Lived there off and on over the decades. A lot of people mistake this for a rich person’s car because of the S and X... San Francisco’s homeless are mostly working poor that got priced out of their tiny apartments by wealthy techies... Heck...

Applied start of Oct and the website still just says paperwork received... I suspect all the folks who bought at the end of Q3 just beat me to applying by a few days and the 1 state worker assigned to this went from filling out 1 app a day to 23,732 a day... :D

I guess even another EV can be a pickup driver sometimes... Get them towed. Make a daily complaint to building management until it happens. Put notes on windows of other EVs asking them to help you report the offender. You’re probably not the only person being inconvenienced. Set up an...

If your state requires front plates, look up the “Bandit” plate for the M3. You can find it reviewed on YouTube. If your state wants you to put paint-destroying “special access” stickers all over your car that expire a few years later and have to be removed along with half your paint job...

@dd564: on the benefit of doubt side the last year has seen dozens of attempts by Wall Street short sellers to claim all the car sales are fake news, tesla is hiding the cars on lots over in Area 54, or selling them to dealers (Tesla doesn’t sell to dealers at all, period, btw. It is actually...